Fintech Bloom

SINGAPORE – 14 July 2026 – AI Account Pte Ltd, a Singapore-headquartered provider of AI-powered cloud accounting software, has been named Best AI-Driven Accounting Software Platform 2026, South East Asia, at the Wealth & Finance International FinTech Awards 2026.

By Daniel Kivatinos, co-founder of Loopfour Fifteen years ago I packed up a two-year-old health tech startup in New York and moved it across the country to Mountain View, right into the heart of Silicon Valley. It was January 2011. The iPad had just arrived, the App Store was a gold rush, and every ambitious founder I knew wanted to be within driving distance of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Stanford.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – 13 July 2026 – Skyro, a digital-first consumer finance platform, today announced the nationwide rollout of SkyroCredit, its reusable digital credit line, making it available to all eligible customers across the Philippines. The launch follows a pilot phase that attracted more than 100,000 users who have used SkyroCredit for everyday purchases, including groceries, medicines, fuel, and dining.

By Dr. Chan Ahn is the Founder and CEO of Tessera Regulatory agencies, led by the U.S. SEC and CFTC, have shifted their stance towards digital asset tokenization from ambiguity to clear, innovation-friendly policies. But the journey towards regulating tokenized assets didn’t mean rewriting and overhauling the rulebook completely. Lawmakers have devised rules that often follow TradFi’s framework to evaluate tokenized assets and determine the legality of economic exposure and ownership.

By Luka Mijatović, Co-Founder, Chief Technology and Financial Officer, Farseer For years, finance teams have been asked to do more with less. More analysis, more forecasting, more strategic input – often with the same resources and an ever-growing volume of data. AI promises to help. But as CFOs increasingly look to AI to support planning and decision-making, one question is becoming more important than how quickly AI can produce an answer: can that answer be trusted?

Jakarta,1st July 2026 — With a population of 270 million, over 65 million MSMEs, and a staggering 77 million unbanked adults, Indonesia stands as the ultimate frontier for financial evolution in Southeast Asia. Driven by a massive payments infrastructure that processed over 16 billion transactions last year and backed by a government committed to a bold 8% GDP growth target, the nation is the undisputed economic engine of the region.

By Zuny Fester, Head of Operations & Marketing at Loopfour When I was in college, like most people in my program, I had a pretty specific idea of what success was supposed to look like after graduation. You studied something serious —engineering, business administration, finance, economics— and then you went and got yourself a corporate job at a well-established company. That was the goal.

By John Brodie Shanks, Head of Sales and Mortgages at Angel Property Finance Bridging lenders are operating in a market that looks attractive on the surface, but is more difficult underneath. Demand remains strong, borrowers still need speed, and brokers want lenders who can move quickly on complex cases. Yet every lender knows the uncomfortable truth: a bigger loan book is not always a better loan book. The risk is not growth itself.

By Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle The pitch is irresistible: AI can now analyze a borrower’s risk profile in seconds, flag anomalies that human underwriters would miss, and do it all at a fraction of the cost. For fintech founders building lending startups in a sustained high-rate environment, that promise sounds like a lifeline. But there is a gap between what AI promises and what regulators, auditors, and courts will actually accept when something goes wrong.

Fuad Murtuzayev is Principal at Mount Fund and Founder of Keane Tech, a B2B computer vision platform for gym operators. He spoke with us about why fitness economics broke for hardware, what makes Keane’s software model structurally different, and why London is the right launchpad. You wear two hats: Principal at Mount Fund and Founder of Keane Tech. From an investor’s seat, what made the fitness category compelling enough to cross the line from backing to building?