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Fraud follows growth. Every new campaign, market and bonus program expands the surface it feeds on, and when the losses start eating into margins, the first instinct is to do two things at once: launch more campaigns to address the losses and hire more analysts to handle the larger workload. That instinct feeds the problem. You cannot outrun losses that scale with your growth...

Getting a MAS license is not the finish line. For payment service providers (PSPs) and licensed fund managers in Singapore, it is the point at which the compliance obligations become more specific, more testable and more actively examined by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

The Payment Services Act sets out the requirements for licensed PSPs. What it does not sp...

Fintech payment service providers in Indonesia operate under a licensing framework that becomes significantly stricter the moment they seek to expand their payment scope. Bank Indonesia issues PJP licenses across three categories, and moving from category 3 to category 2 triggers mandatory

Licensed payment service providers in the Philippines are discovering that having a fraud management system is no longer optional: it is a condition of continued operation. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has made this explicit through Circular 1160 and its successor frameworks, including the Anti-Financial Account Scamming Act, and it is now examining institutions against sp...

93% of lenders report credit-loss impact from fraud in 2026, and 61% identified synthetic identity fraud as the fastest-growing threat they face, despite most already running dedi...