AI adoption during the 2026 Chinese New Year drove a sharp rise in usage across Ant Group’s consumer platforms, with…
Hong Kong offers one of Asia’s most structured and secure environments for cryptocurrency trading. Unlike unregulated markets, the city operates…
At the DAT Summit Hong Kong, EDENA Capital Partners launched the Autonomic Financial OS. The company describes it as an…
Naver has announced measures following an incident in which around 15,000 users’ activity histories on Knowledge iN were exposed due…
SoftBank’s digital payments unit, PayPay, has filed publicly for a US IPO. The listing could be the largest by a…
Inference Research, an AI-native quantitative trading firm based in Hong Kong, has announced its launch and the expected closing of…
London-based fintech company Unlimit, which provides a broad range of financial technology services, has appointed Michele Fung as Head of…
SoFi Securities (Hong Kong) (SoFi Hong Kong) and OSL Group have announced a partnership to offer digital asset trading to…
The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) held their third meeting in Abu…
The US$2.5 trillion SME credit gap in the Asia Pacific remains a significant challenge for traditional banks. Joe Udomdejwatana of…
Alipay announced that its AI Pay, a payment solution using AI agents, processed over 120 million transactions in the past…
The global rate of identity fraud decreased in 2025 from the previous year’s high, but the threats have become more…
During Chinese New Year, Sands China, Alipay, and Macau Pass expanded their partnership to support Macao’s tourism sector and local…
A former senior executive at a Hong Kong fintech firm has been sentenced to six and a half years in…
If you’re looking at your bitcoin portfolio and seeing red, chances are you’re witnessing one of the fastest unravellings in…
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) issued a guidance extending virtual asset (VA) services to margin financing for licensed brokers…
Chubb Investment Management (HK), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chubb, has launched Chubb Wealth, an insurer-backed wealth management platform licensed by…
Hong Kong’s central bank is moving ahead with plans to issue an initial batch of stablecoin licenses in March, despite…
Alchemy Pay has upgraded HTF Securities Limited’s Type 4 (Advising on Securities) license to include virtual asset advisory services. The…
South Korea’s financial regulator has said that local cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb’s accidental giveaway of more than US$40 billion in bitcoin…