South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC), the government’s top financial regulator, will resume a new round of procedures for granting…
Month: July 2019
Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission is said to have issued it virtual banking licences to three consortiums, according to a report…
New data from Juniper Research has found that the volume of domestic money transfers via mobiles will exceed 203 billion in…
The Financial Services Commission of South Korea has approved an additional 5 companies to be part of its fintech sandbox.…
As China emerges as a tech powerhouse, successful concepts from Chinese tech giants are being studied and replicated by Asian…
Eddie Yue, who currently serves as the Deputy CEO of HKMA will succeed Norman Chan as the new CEO in…
In China, platforms and services like Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay have brought facial recognition payments to online and…
ZhongAn, a leading insurtech company in China, today announced new senior leadership appointments. Former General Manager and Joint CEO Mr.…
Infinium Limited, the virtual bank jointly owned by Tencent, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, Hillhouse Capital and Perfect Ridge today…
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…