The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) together with the major banks and HKMC Insurance Limited (HKMCI) met representatives from the…
Year: 2020
Diginex, a digital asset financial services and advisory company, has hired financial services stalwart Mr. Chi-Won Yoon as Chairman of…
Airstar one of Hong Kong’s new virtual banks, today announced the launch of a pilot trial which is conducted within…
ZA Bank announced today that they are now a fully operational virtual bank with the launch of their ZA Go…
Manulife is announcing its collaboration with dacadoo, a Swiss-based global digital health platform provider to enhance the company’s digital offerings…
Wirecard, is further expanding its e-commerce offer for Chinese online shoppers. Thanks to Wirecard, European merchants can integrate the popular…
UnionPay International announces today that it has rolled out the mobile payment product of Huawei Pay in Pakistan in partnership…
TransferWise, today announced a partnership with Alipay, to provide its users with fast, affordable and convenient international money transfers to…
Across Asia-Pacific (APAC), regulators are opening up their markets to new entrants that promise to transform the traditional banking model.…
Shortly after Standard Chartered, PCCW, HKT and Trip.com unveiled its virtual bank MOX yesterday, UK-based Paymentology has come out to…
Incumbent banks are at risk of losing billions of dollars in retail revenues in the next three to five years,…
Alipay, a leading mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group, today announced a three-year plan to further open…
Mox Bank Limited (“Mox”) unveiled today its brand name, brand identity and website. Mox is the new virtual bank in…
Klarna a Sweden-based fintech that provides pay later solutions announced that Ant Financial has taken a minority stake in it.…
UnionPay announced that it has become the first international payment brand to be included in Japan’s universal payment QR standard…
Ping An’s OneConnect has been selected as a strategic partner by Singapore based digital banking consortium BEYOND to jointly develop…
Fintech companies in China attracted USD 962.2 million in investments from venture capital, private equity and M&A in 2H 2019,…
In 2019, a record of 24 fintech unicorns were born, with more than half of them (13) being from the…
CoolBitX, has successfully secured $16.75 million in a Series B funding round. According to their statement, the funding will help…
Blockchain technology is based on peer-to-peer topology and it encompasses a series of immutable records of data that is managed…