South Korea’s attempts to put itself on the map in the world of blockchain seem to be bearing fruit more…
China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has revealed at the 4th Global Fintech (Beijing Summit) that it…
Octopus cards will soon be usable virtually via an iPhone, according to the city’s e-payments giant. With the iPhone’s Apple…
KPMG and Alibaba Entrepreneurs Funds’ joint report has made it official—fintech is ranked as Hong Kong’s strongest innovation sector, beating…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to play a key role in the future of financial services and more broadly in…
South Koreans are increasingly going cashless as more people turn to e-wallets in South Korea for both online and offline…
It’s been several months now since the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced the 8 licensees granted approval to operate…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR), France’s central bank, entered into a…
Sony and Daiwa Capital announced the establishment of Innovation Growth Ventures (IGV), a joint venture company created to establish a…
Chinese conglomerate Ping An Insurance is applying blockchain-driven smart contracts across the full range of its operations—banking, securities, fund and…
Last week, Facebook unveiled plans for a new cryptocurrency called Libra. Set to launch as early as 2020, Libra will…
Xero, the global small business platform announced a partnership with Stripe to develop new innovations that help small businesses get…
Samsung SDS introduced customers’ common pain points in adopting blockchain and announced its blockchain business direction and the solution to…
Credit Suisse today announced a collaboration with Privé Technologies (Privé), a Hong Kong-based digital wealth management solutions platform provider for…
Diginex Group announced that a unit of its group Diginex AM has been granted a license a Type 4 (Advising…
South Korea’s banking industry is embracing digital transformation with 65.7% of the country’s financial institutions pursuing various business projects in…
In his recently published e-book, George Harrap co-founder of Hong Kong based blockchain remittance startup Bitspark, pointed fingers at SWIFT…
The government of Hangzhou unveiled a plan to build the eastern Chinese city into an international fintech hub by 2030.…
Due to the worryingly slow development of digital banking in Hong Kong, regulator Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) granted virtual banking…
Cyberport signed a memorandum of understanding Ping An’s fintech arm One connect to o be among the first batch partners…