Meng Liu

Mastercard’s acquisition of BVNK seizes on the opportunity of stablecoins to disrupt cross-border payments. Learn what the move means for banks, card networks, payment fintechs, and B2B firms.

For 30 years, micropayments failed for one reason: The payer was human. Humans hesitate; they abandon carts, resent friction, and perform mental accounting before every small transaction. The smartest engineers and best-funded companies in technology couldn’t engineer their way around human psychology — so they stopped trying. On March 18, 2026, that constraint disappeared. Stripe […]

In the second half of 2025, security and risk (S&R) leaders in APAC and EMEA continued to grapple with familiar pressures, but they reprioritized how they address them. While AI; governance, risk, and compliance (GRC); and third-party risk management (TPRM) stayed stubbornly on top of the charts, application security and security organization structure resurfaced with […]

During Ant International’s recent analyst and media briefings in Bangkok, I had the opportunity to engage with senior executives on their innovation agenda. Three key themes emerged that highlight how the company is competing to shape the future of the global payments and commerce space. Building A Global Payment Network Through Wallet Interoperability Ant International […]

Why are leading organizations investing in accounts receivable (AR) automation solutions? Over the past few years, AR has evolved from a back-office billing function into a strategic lever for customer experience (CX), risk mitigation, and working capital optimization. Generative and agentic AI now deliver the speed, scalability, and intelligence to transform AR operations at scale. […]

From Prediction To Reality: B2B Fintech Brex Acquired By Capital One Capital One’s acquisition of BlueTarp Financial in 2019 bolstered its B2B financing and trade credit solutions for business sellers (from the AR perspective). Now, with the acquisition of Brex, Capital One completes a crucial piece for B2B buyers in the AP process. This landmark […]

Accounts payable (AP) invoice automation software continues to evolve rapidly as enterprises modernize finance operations and respond to regulatory, technological, and operational pressures.

Finance automation is about more than productivity improvements. Learn about its benefits and why now is the time to put it into action.

This blog answers five key questions about agentic payments and provides a timeline of key events in agentic commerce and AI-assisted payments.

Last week at the Singapore FinTech Festival’s 10th anniversary, I sat down with senior leaders across payments companies, fintechs, and banks. What they told me — and what I witnessed on the show floor — revealed five forces reshaping the industry: Agentic payments are moving from experiment to competitive weapon; payments-specific foundation models are emerging […]

The payments landscape has been steadily reinventing itself, and 2026 is shaping up to be a year when the seeds of innovation finally sprout. 2026 is about watching new ideas — such as agentic payments, stablecoins, and next-gen biometrics — take root. Learn more in our 2026 payments predictions.

Fraud in Asia Pacific (APAC) is evolving at breakneck speed. New payment methods are rapidly becoming new attack surfaces: Instant payment systems such as PayNow and UPI are now mainstream, stablecoins are gaining traction for cross-border transfers, and fraudsters are weaponizing AI-driven scams like deepfakes and social engineering.

Basware hosted its annual VIP Customer Event in Austin, Texas, on October 22–24, marking the company’s 40th anniversary. The gathering highlighted a strong sense of community among attendees and offered a window into Basware’s customer-driven innovation culture. From the discussions and sessions during the event, several insights stood out: Invoice lifecycle management. Basware introduced the […]

My recent conversation with Coupang’s head of global hunting, oversight, and strategic triage revealed insights and takeaways that APAC CISOs can put to work.

At the 2025 Alibaba Cloud Apsara analyst conference in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba Cloud reinforced its position as an AI‑native cloud provider, delivering a full‑stack AI architecture and expanding its global ecosystem.

At the fifth Tencent Cloud International Summit, as part of the company’s wider Global Digital Ecosystem Summit in Shenzhen, Tencent made its strategic direction clear: It is accelerating two engines to drive future growth.

Learn how Stripe and Bridge are driving stablecoin adoption in this conversation with Mai Leduc, head of product at Bridge, a Stripe company.

Learn some of the key adoption drivers, technologies, and use cases for identity and access management (IAM) in Asia Pacific in this preview of a new report.

As AI-driven threats increase across the APAC region, so do enterprise fraud management technologies. Find out what fraud management professionals in APAC should pay attention to when evaluating solutions and vendors.