According to Foresight News, accounting firm KPMG has released its 'Pulse of Fintech H1 2025' report, highlighting a rebound in Singapore's fintech industry during the first half of 2025. The sector completed 90 transactions, attracting nearly $1.04 billion in investments. This marks an approximate 87% increase in transaction value compared to the first half of 2024 and a 28% rise from the latter half of 2024.
Investment activities were primarily focused on payments, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The payments sector saw transactions across both early and late-stage funding rounds, while the cryptocurrency and AI sectors were mainly concentrated on early-stage investments.
Globally, fintech investments in the first half of 2025 totaled $44.7 billion across 2,216 transactions. This represents a decline from the second half of 2024, which saw $54.2 billion in investments over 2,376 transactions.