The Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) 2025 last week marked its 10th anniversary with more than 65,000 participants across a three-day event. As the world’s largest fintech event, this milestone edition carried the theme “Technology Blueprint for the Next Decade of Finance.” Several companies and institutions took the opportunity to launch finance products at this event, designed to make financial services more intelligent, accessible, and seamlessly integrated into everyday life.
From AI-powered investment copilots to embedded financial platforms, the launches showcased at SFF 2025 illustrate how the next decade of finance will be shaped by personalisation, automation, and global connectivity. These products offer a preview of how technology will transform the way individuals save, invest, and manage money in an increasingly digital economy.
#1 MasterCard Move Now Pays To Stablecoin Wallets
MasterCard’s portfolio of international money transfer solutions, known as Mastercard Move, now adds stablecoin wallets as a new endpoint. This allows banks and payment providers greater flexibility in delivering funds, while offering users more options for receiving them.
The payout to stablecoin wallets will be almost real-time and have 24/7 availability. This is thanks to MasterCard’s strategic alliance with Thunes, which bills itself as the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world. Using Thunes’ Direct Global Network, Mastercard Move users are now able to send and receive payments in stablecoin wallets. This often overcomes traditional banking transfer limitations of speed and costs, as well as gives international users who are unbanked or underbanked a means to receive funds.
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#2 Xendit Global Account Allows Companies To Collect Payments In Over 10 Currencies
For businesses with multiple operations across Southeast Asia, it can be a hassle to decode the complexities of each market, which can slow down payments. Xendit’s new Global Account aims to allow companies to collect payments in multiple currencies such as SGD, MYR, IDR, and PHP, automate conversions and make instant payouts, all through a single dashboard.
For example, a Singapore company might need to collect payments in the Philippines and Indonesia, using their respective currencies. These payments can then be automatically converted into the Singapore Dollar or US Dollar and later paid out in Malaysian Ringgit to a vendor’s bank account in Malaysia, all via the same dashboard.
#3 Cambodians Can Now Use QR Payment In Singapore
Held on the sidelines of the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025, the launch of the Bakong-RoamQR cross-border payment linkage means that Cambodian visitors to Singapore can now make payments via QR code using their own national payment system Bakong.
Bakong allows Cambodian travellers and businesses to pay directly from their Khmer Riel accounts when they scan any RoamQR code in Singapore, which is already widely used as part of the SGQR+ initiative, thanks to operator Liquid Group.
Source: Facebook/National Bank of Cambodia
While Phase 1 currently only allows Bakong app users to scan QR codes in Singapore, Phase 2 of this linkage will allow Singaporean travellers to make payments in Cambodia by scanning KHQR codes, the Cambodian national QR code standard.
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#4 FacePhi – AI-Powered Identity Verification
In a world where digital scams and fraudulent transactions are on the rise due to sophisticated methods, it’s more important than ever to protect your digital identity online.
According to FacePhi, a Spanish company at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2025, its IDV Suite uses a three-step AI-powered identity verification system to ensure users of financial institutions transact safely online.
The three steps are: firstly, verifying the identity using multiple biometric authentication methods. This blocks deepfake attempts and synthetic IDs. Secondly, by analysing over 3,000 digital signals in real-time, the platform recognises your transactional behaviour, ensuring that any uncharacteristic or deviant behaviours are immediately flagged and blocked. Thirdly, it claims to be able to identify hidden patterns that might suggest a genuine user is a victim of a scam, and intercepts scamming attempts by detecting coordinated mule accounts, and scam operation clusters.
#5 Keypasco – One Touch Safe
In the same vein of authentication and digital identity solutions, Taiwan-headquarted Keypasco launched the One Touch Safe, which claims to revolutionise digital fraud protection by allowing users to “lock” their credit cards and bank accounts by default.
This enhanced security measure ensures that accounts are only accessed when unlocked by the user, who can do so with a simple process on a mobile application. Further advanced measures include a “Sign What You See” verification system, as well as optional family member approvals to protect against high-risk transactions and social engineering scams.
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