gini, a Hong Kong-based smart spending-tracker announced that it has completed its seed round with a $1.6 million investment from…
Month: January 2019
Bitspark, a cryptocurrency money transfer platform, has launched Sparkdex.HKD. The company claims that is the world’s first market-ready cryptocurrency pegged…
Fintech continues its momentum in Asia. In the first half of 2018, fintech companies in the region raised US$16.8 billion…
In the past years, Asia Pacific has seen strong growth in its fintech ecosystem, rapidly catching up with the US…
79% of Hong Kongers don’t understand the true cost of international money transfers, a recent survey has found. Of those…
Mobile payments is rapidly becoming a dynamic market in Japan as the government pushes to increase cashless payments to 40%…
With the Chinese New Year (CNY) period fast approaching, outbound travel from China is expected to see strong growth in…
Fintech associations from across the Asia-Pacific region have announced the formation of the Asia-Pacific Fintech Network, which will facilitate greater…
More than 3,300 financial policymakers, financial elites and business leaders attended the two-day 12th Asian Financial Forum (AFF), which concluded…
According to a study conducted by Accenture, 51% Hong Kong’s populace are willing to let third-parties access their financial data…
A global technological leader, Japan has witnessed the emergence of a thriving fintech landscape in the past two years as…
70% of Hongkongers said they have never paid for something using their smartphone, revealed a survey conducted by the Hong…
South Korea is well-known as one of the most wired countries in the world with good education and a top…
China’s tech giants Alibaba and Tencent are going after global remittances, a market that sees more than US$600 billion being…
When talking to South Koreans, the word “blockchain” has become a household buzzword. Most people have heard of it via…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) held 9 January 2019 a high-level Fintech Roundtable (Roundtable), which was attended by about…
Hong Kong, an international finance hub and technologically advanced center for logistics and communications, has been hard at work to…
While the global cryptocurrency fervor has abated throughout the course of 2018 following bitcoin’s parabolic rise in the year prior,…
Geoswift, UnionPay International and Western Union have recently offered a joint tuition payment promotion available to Chinese students studying at…
The company that drove Uber out of China, Didi Chuxing, comes into the new year embroiled in controversy. About a…