{"id":156360,"date":"2025-11-24T03:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156360\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:04:09","slug":"southeast-asian-fintech-sector-embraces-wave-of-tokenization-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156360\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Asian fintech sector embraces wave of tokenization and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/finance\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finance<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Stablecoin payments for vending machines showcased at Singapore event<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/8.jpeg\" alt=\"20251120 stablecoin vending machine\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">StraitsX showcases QR code-based stablecoin payment for vending machines at the Singapore FinTech Festival on Nov. 13. Users choose stablecoin on their smartphone app.\u00a0(Photo by Fumika Sato)<\/p>\n<p>FUMIKA SATO<\/p>\n<p>November 24, 2025 09:11 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SINGAPORE &#8212; Tokenized digital assets, such as stablecoins, and the use of artificial intelligence took center stage at the annual Singapore FinTech Festival held in the city-state, with companies showcasing their latest services while regulators called for rule-making to support their healthy development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Stablecoin payments for vending machines showcased at Singapore event StraitsX showcases QR code-based stablecoin payment for vending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,23173,88167,4673,61,60,25317,23832,80,8309,39899],"class_list":["post-156360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-asian","tag-embraces","tag-fintech","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sector","tag-southeast","tag-technology","tag-tokenization","tag-wave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}