About Karen Joy
Karen Joy Bacudo
Finance Editor
Karen wears two hats at TechDay, balancing her role as an editor while assisting with finance tasks. She bridges writing content and reconciling numbers to support the team, with the same level of accuracy and precision.
Stories by Karen Joy - Page 9
Radial taps Gr4vy to tie payments closer to fulfilment
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risk & compliance
Radial partners with Gr4vy to embed payment orchestration into its fulfilment platform, tightening links between fraud, orders and logistics.
CFOs shift focus from manual month-end to live insight
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digital transformation
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financial systems
Mid-market CFOs ditch manual month-end marathons, turning to live, standardised reporting to drive faster, insight-led decisions.
Independent Reserve plans APAC crypto push from 2026
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risk & compliance
Independent Reserve to launch new regulated crypto services for corporates and institutions across Singapore, Australia and UAE from 2026.
Mastercard & CLIK team up to boost Indonesian credit
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Mastercard partners CLIK Credit Bureau to sharpen Indonesian lenders' credit decisions, balancing digital growth with tighter risk control.
Xero unveils 'Accountable Intelligence' for AI in finance
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data analytics
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digital transformation
Xero launches Accountable Intelligence AI to automate bookkeeping while keeping decisions, audit trails and financial oversight with humans.
Rogo buys Offset to boost AI agents for finance pros
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rpa
Rogo acquires AI agent firm Offset to deepen automation in investment banking and buy-side workflows after its USD $75 million Series C.
Oracle named IDC MarketScape leader in AI trade finance
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digital transformation
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rpa
Oracle named IDC MarketScape leader for AI-enabled embedded trade finance apps, bolstering its position in bank trade digitisation.
Bybit unveils AI Trading Skill for automated crypto trades
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crypto
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risk & compliance
Bybit launches AI Trading Skill, letting users place crypto trades and manage accounts via natural-language prompts across top AI tools.
KuCoin unveils AI Skills Hub to power smarter crypto
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crypto
KuCoin launches AI Skills Hub, an open marketplace of modular tools letting agents tap exchange data and automate crypto workflows.
EBANX opens Singapore APAC HQ amid surging payment growth
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gaming
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EBANX launches Singapore APAC HQ to drive payments innovation and regulation as Total Payment Volume surges 48% and growth shifts beyond Brazil.
Mastercard, Bank of Shanghai boost China transfers
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crypto
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supply chain
Mastercard Move links with Bank of Shanghai to add bank account rails for two-way cross-border payments between China and global markets.
QBE Re names Soichiro Tanaka Head of Southeast Asia
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risk & compliance
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insurance
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QBE Re appoints Soichiro Tanaka as its first Head of Southeast Asia, strengthening regional underwriting leadership from its Singapore hub.
AI-fuelled crime drives illicit funds to $4.4 trillion
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AI-fuelled scams help push illicit finance to an estimated USD $4.4 trillion in 2025, with fraud losses hitting USD $579.4 billion.
Cryptio raises USD $45m to scale digital asset ERP tools
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blockchain
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financial systems
Cryptio raises USD $45m Series B to scale its digital asset ERP platform for banks, auditors and tokenisation firms handling on-chain data.
Modern Treasury joins Mastercard crypto partner push
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crypto
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blockchain
Modern Treasury joins Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program to power fiat-crypto on/off-ramps and cross-border blockchain payment flows.
Fairview selects Workday to modernise HR, finance, supply
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digital transformation
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rpa
Fairview selects Workday to overhaul HR, finance and supply chain in a multi-year move to a single AI-enabled operations platform.
Aon pilots stablecoin premium payments with Coinbase, Paxos
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blockchain
Aon pilots stablecoin insurance premium payments with Coinbase and Paxos, testing USDC and PYUSD settlement across Ethereum and Solana.
Tower raises USD $6.4m to bring AI data and code to production
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Tower raises USD $6.4m to help data teams turn AI-generated code into reliable production pipelines on an Apache Iceberg-based platform.
Finastra adds real-time AI fraud checks to payments
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crypto
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Finastra is embedding FraudAverse's AI-driven fraud checks into its Financial Messaging platform to secure real-time global and instant payments.
RedotPay expands global crypto payments with new licences
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crypto
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risk & compliance
RedotPay wins new Canada, US and Argentina licences as it builds a global crypto payments hub and expands stablecoin-based services.