FinTech headlines often focus on consumer apps, but the bigger economic story in Asia may be happening in business finance. B2B fintech targets the problems that shape real growth: helping companies get paid, manage working capital, move money across supply chains, and access services like lending, payments, and treasury in a reliable way.

In this episode of the Asia Tech Podcast, Daniel Keki, Head of Revolut Business Singapore, and Raunak Dembla, a founding member at Decentro, explain why B2B FinTech may be Asia’s quiet economic engine.

Some of the topics that Daniel and Raunak discussed in detail included:

• Southeast Asia’s real challenge is not “competition”—it’s fragmentation
• In India, the regulator’s north star is simple: protect the consumer and prevent system stress
• The most underappreciated innovation in B2B is not “new products”—it’s onboarding
• Agentic AI doesn’t kill platforms—it makes APIs more valuable and shifts the “front end” into conversation
• B2B FinTech in Asia is not a sprint—it’s a marathon built under pressure from customers

Automated traffic is starting to outweigh human traffic online, and a growing share of it is not harmless. Attacks are no longer occasional or manual—they are constant, adaptive, and increasingly powered by AI.

In this episode of the Asia Tech Podcast, Guy Brown, Staff Enterprise Security Architect, APJ at Fastly, and Tony Jarvis, Field CISO, APJ at DarkTrace, describe a “bot war” defined by three forces: volume (more attacks), velocity (attacks move at machine speed), and variety (tactics mutate constantly).

Some of the topics that Guy and Tony covered in detail include:

• Automation turns crime into an industrial process. And AI turns that process into something adaptive.
• LLMs did not just improve attacks. They changed the economics of attacks.
• "Static defenses” don’t map to an adaptive attacker. Importantly, behavior and intent matter more than patterns.
• Effective cyber defense increasingly means modeling what normal looks like, then detecting what doesn’t belong.
• Agentic AI changes the blast radius because it sits inside the system with permissions.

Instant payments are often described as the new baseline in modern finance. But speed alone does not define progress. In many cases, “real-time” only applies within narrow limits, small transaction sizes, or pre-funded domestic rails. Cross-border flows remain constrained by liquidity requirements, fragmented standards, and compliance bottlenecks.

In this episode of the Asia Tech Podcast, featuring Kanupriya Sharda, Chief Business Officer at Tazapay and Abhishek Padhy, Head of Product Payments and FX at Aspire we cut through the noise around “instant payments” to reveal a deeper truth: speed alone is no longer the real frontier in payments.

Some of the topics that Kanupriya and Abhishek covered in detail:

• “Real-time” is often real-time only for small money and with a crucial caveat: it’s mostly true for domestic payments in parts of Asia, but it breaks down fast when you zoom out to cross-border and B2B.
• Pre-funding is the hidden architecture of “instant” payments and it’s incredibly expensive.
• Stablecoins aren’t just a “crypto” story, they’re a liquidity and settlement story.
• The next advantage isn’t only speed, it’s certainty and transparency.
• AI isn’t replacing compliance, it’s compressing time and expanding context.
• The contrarian view on consolidation: payments aren’t commoditizing as fast as people claim.