The Southeast Asian Gazette

Kredivo Group acquires 100% of Timo, Vietnam's first digital bank, merging BNPL credit with licensed banking infrastructure.

2C2P and M-PAY will provide payment orchestration for Sun PhuQuoc Airways in Vietnam, covering cards, wallets, QR, and direct debit.

Laos cut its diesel excise tax to zero on March 18 after more than 1,000 fuel stations closed and prices spiked 50 percent in a single week. The country imports over 97% of its fuel from Thailand.

Indonesia and Japan signed a five-year nuclear energy and critical minerals MoC in Tokyo on March 15. The agreement covers technology transfer, SMR collaboration, and potential JBIC and NEXI export credit financing.

British Airways returns to Melbourne in January 2027, routing daily through Kuala Lumpur.

The wealthiest people you will never hear from are the ones who stopped filling every quiet moment with noise. That silence is doing more for their financial trajectory than their schedule ever could.

Short-term demand gains for carriers with established nonstop Asia-Europe networks. Rising fuel and operating costs for everyone. A connectivity warning from the head of the AAPA. The Gulf crisis is generating both opportunity and pressure simultaneously — and the balance between the two is not yet clear.

Aviation analysts argue that sustained Gulf instability could make a Singapore fuel stop a permanent contingency on Qantas Project Sunrise flights, even after next-generation A350-1000 aircraft arrive in late 2026. What started as a temporary detour may be shaping long-term fleet deployment thinking.

Mastercard is systematically building out Mastercard Move's coverage across APAC, rail by rail. The Bank of Shanghai deal is the latest piece in that infrastructure strategy.

DBS SecureFX covers five currency pairs including USD/SGD, EUR/SGD, and JPY/SGD. Its full corporate deployment makes rate certainty accessible to a much larger pool of Singapore businesses.