Hong Kong is a city that takes financial security seriously, boasting one of the highest insurance penetration rates in the…
RedotPay, a global stablecoin-based payment fintech, has closed a US$107 million Series B round, bringing its total capital raised in…
Aspire has released its Hong Kong Ecommerce Pulse Check 2025, highlighting that while mid-sized ecommerce merchants remain broadly optimistic about…
Do Kwon, the crypto tycoon behind the 2022 collapse of TerraUSD and Luna, caused an estimated US$40 billion in investor…
Startale Group and SBI Holdings have signed a MoU to jointly develop and launch a fully regulated Japanese yen-denominated stablecoin.…
KakaoBank, South Korea’s largest internet-only bank, is accelerating its global expansion through a deepened partnership with Superbank. Superbank is an…
Ant International, HSBC, and Swift have completed a Proof of Concept (POC) demonstrating the cross-border transfer of tokenised deposits using…
a16z crypto, the crypto-focused arm of Andreessen Horowitz, has announced its expansion into Asia with the opening of its first…
Trio AI, a Hong Kong-based AI infrastructure service provider, has signed a MouU with AbbyPay, a POS-free digital payment brand…
Banks have been the backbone of merchant acquiring. Their regulatory strength, trusted brands, and long-standing merchant relationships established them as…
KPay now allows its Hong Kong merchants to accept in-person contactless payments using Tap to Pay on iPhone. The feature…
Licensed crypto exchange HashKey Group is intending to raise as much as HK$1.67 billion in its Hong Kong initial public…
Endowus, an independent wealth advisor and investment platform in Asia, has launched its Income Enhanced Portfolio, available to professional and…
Citi and PAObank have partnered to enable PAObank to offer a real-time foreign exchange (FX) service for its retail customers.…
Aspire, an all-in-one finance platform for businesses, has introduced fast, low-cost international payments in Hong Kong. Wise Platform, Wise’s global…
Alipay+ reported an 18% increase in supported QR code payment transactions. Total payment volume (TPV) in South Korea rose 16%…
The way we pay has changed more in the past five years than in the previous fifty. But as real-time…
SoéPay now enables its Hong Kong merchants to accept in-person contactless payments through Tap to Pay on iPhone. The feature…
The South Korean government plans to impose bank-level, no-fault compensation rules on cryptocurrency exchanges. The move follows a recent breach…
Insurtech Insights Asia 2025, a major regional forum for insurance technology stakeholders, concluded on Friday (5 December) at the Kerry…