Zento taps Flagright for automated compliance monitoring. Zento has partnered with Flagright to automate parts of its financial crime compliance operations. The company selected Flagright's AI-native platform to support AML monitoring and risk scoring, with the goal of strengthening controls for its European business. The collaboration centers on replacing more manual compliance workflows with automated monitoring and risk assessment capabilities. Flagright's platform will be used to help Zento identify and evaluate financial crime risks as part of its broader compliance process. 12 hours ago 15 hours ago 11 hours ago

Payhawk tightens grip on financial crime risk with Flagright. August 31, 2026 Payhawk has partnered with Flagright to strengthen fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML) oversight across its entire platform. The partnership sees Flagright's technology deployed to give Payhawk a unified view of risk as transactions flow through cards, accounts, suppliers, entities, currencies and markets. Rather than relying on fragmented systems to catch suspicious activity, Payhawk's fraud and AML teams will now apply consistent logic across every type of payment, allowing them to flag irregular behaviour and screen relevant parties without disrupting genuine corporate spending. The deployment spans several capabilities. Approved card, account and payment activity is tracked in real time using configurable controls, while customers and counterparties are checked against sanctions lists, politically exposed persons (PEP) registers and other relevant watchlists. The monitoring logic itself is designed to flex across different entities, products, markets and transaction patterns, and supports a standardised approach to reviewing and escalating cases across both fraud and AML functions. The system is also built to preserve clear, audit-ready records of every decision made. Payhawk operates as a single platform covering corporate cards, expense management, business travel, accounts payable, procurement, global payments and broader enterprise financial controls, giving finance teams one place to manage spend as their organisations expand into new markets. The collaboration reflects a wider shift in how scaling companies are approaching financial crime prevention, moving away from siloed tools and towards connected systems capable of adapting as transaction volumes, products and geographic footprints grow. Payhawk group chief compliance officer Thibaud Catry said, "Fraud and AML risk increasingly intersect across cards, accounts, suppliers, and payments. In most finance stacks those controls sit in separate systems. With Flagright, we now monitor every payment type against the same logic, across every market we operate in, as Payhawk continues to scale." Flagright co-founder and CEO Baran Özkan said, "Payhawk has built an enterprise operating layer for global corporate spend. Protecting that environment requires fraud prevention and AML compliance to work from connected signals and controls, rather than separate systems. Flagright gives Payhawk a real time, configurable financial crime compliance layer that can evolve across cards, accounts, suppliers, entities, and payment activity." Enjoyed the story?

SEA SaaS Tracker: StoreHub, Aspire, and SleekFlow Updates. Changelog of investment, compliance-partnership, and feature updates for StoreHub, Aspire, and SleekFlow - sourced, dated updates from official channels, August 2026. Disclosure: Some links in this article are affiliate links, and Software Listing may earn a commission if you sign up through them at no additional cost to you. Affiliate status never changes a tool's score, its ranking, or what this article says about it - see its terms. SaaS & AI Research Desk · Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia expertise If you're the one person on a five-person ops team who tracks every StoreHub, Aspire, and SleekFlow announcement, you already know the feeling. Someone in the group chat asks "did they change pricing again?" and you're the only one with an answer. Here's what actually happened between August 6 and August 25, 2026. StoreHub. On 2026-08-24, ShardLab - the fintech venture studio backed by investment firm Hashed - took a strategic stake in StoreHub. The two are forming a joint venture to build new consumer payments and rewards products for Southeast Asia. Sources: PR Newswire APAC, Fintech News Malaysia, TechNode Global. Neither side disclosed the investment amount. The joint venture's product scope and launch timeline aren't public yet either. The stated goal is to test new payment and rewards models with real merchants first, then scale whatever sticks. Venture studios backing payments infrastructure isn't unusual in this market. What stands out about this deal is the JV structure: ShardLab isn't just writing a check, it's co-building the product with StoreHub's existing merchant network as the testing ground. That's a smarter distribution play than launching a standalone app and hoping merchants notice it. For scale: StoreHub says it serves 20,000+ merchant locations across Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Japan, processing 200 million+ transactions a year worth roughly USD 3.5 billion combined. That's a genuinely useful distribution network for a rewards product to plug into - most fintech partnerships announced this quarter don't come with that kind of built-in merchant base. No pricing change here. StoreHub's starting price is still USD 39 a month, which works out to roughly MYR 165 or THB 1,290 depending on where your business sits. If you're a StoreHub merchant in Kuala Lumpur or Chiang Mai, this announcement changes nothing about your bill today - it's a bet on what gets bundled into your POS a year from now. Aspire. On 2026-08-06, Aspire partnered with Flagright to run AI-driven financial-crime compliance across its business-finance platform. Sources: Fintech News Singapore, Flagright, FF News. Flagright now handles transaction monitoring, watchlist and user screening, risk scoring, and case-management workflows for Aspire. That's the unglamorous plumbing that keeps a fintech's banking partners comfortable - not something a customer notices, but the kind of thing that decides whether a Singapore-based fintech can keep its licenses. Compliance partnerships like this rarely make headlines, but they're often the thing standing between a fintech and its next banking license renewal. Scaling to 30+ markets means 30+ sets of regulators, and manual screening doesn't hold up past a certain size. If Aspire is serious about entering more markets in Southeast Asia next year, this kind of infrastructure has to be in place months before the expansion, not after. The coverage is broad: Aspire's 50,000+ business customers across 30+ markets. Worth separating this from Aspire's 2026-06-23 Aspire MCP launch, which Software Listing covered in the 2026-08-12 edition of this tracker. That was an AI query layer for finance data. This is AML compliance. Different product, different problem, same company logo. No pricing change came with this partnership. If you're running finance for a startup in Singapore or the Philippines, this one's a quiet reliability upgrade rather than a new line item. Keep an eye on renewal terms next quarter - compliance tooling upgrades sometimes show up there instead. SleekFlow. On 2026-08-12, SleekFlow added email as a native channel inside SleekFlow Inbox, in beta. Sources: SleekFlow Help Center, SleekFlow blog. Email now sits next to WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, SMS, and VoIP calls in one inbox view. At launch, it covers inbound support and one-to-one customer email threads - inquiries, support requests, ongoing conversations. Nothing about outbound campaigns yet. Chat-first platforms built for WhatsApp and Messenger in Southeast Asia have always treated email like an afterthought, and it shows. A lot of teams in Manila or Ho Chi Minh City still run two separate tabs just to answer one customer. Folding email into the same inbox as WhatsApp isn't flashy, but it's the kind of unsexy fix that actually saves someone's Tuesday. You'll need to flip a Feature Preview toggle manually; it's not on by default. No pricing-tier restriction and no price change came with the beta. Honestly, this is the update I'd have expected six months ago. Most SEA support teams I've seen still run email through a separate Gmail tab next to their SleekFlow dashboard - exactly the kind of tab-switching this feature is supposed to kill. Notes on scope. Software Listing also checked BukuWarung, Jubelio, Deskera, Brankas, Mekari Jurnal, and Ayoconnect this cycle. None had a dated pricing, feature, or partnership change confirmed inside the last 30-60 days as of 2026-08-25. That's why StoreHub, Aspire, and SleekFlow made the cut this time - each had a multi-source-confirmed date, and the other six didn't. Six vendors checked, three that made the cut. That ratio isn't unusual for this tracker. SEA SaaS companies don't post changelogs the way US venture-backed startups do, so most updates surface through investor press releases or partner announcements instead of a public changelog page. Worth remembering next time a listicle claims to track 'weekly product updates' across the region without naming a single source. One flag for anyone cross-referencing older editions: Aspire's Flagright partnership (2026-08-06) is a separate item from the Aspire MCP launch (2026-06-23), which Software Listing already logged in the 2026-08-12 edition. Don't double-count them as the same update. If StoreHub's rewards product actually ships with QRIS or DuitNow support baked in, that's the one worth revisiting next quarter. For now, none of these three changes your invoice. Related analysis Topics in this piece. changelog pricing-update sea-saas Mentioned in this article