Joint Electronic Teller Services Limited (JETCO) today announced the rollout of Hong Kong’s first cross-bank cardless withdrawal service. Customers of…
Year: 2020
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today announced the appointment of Bénédicte Noella Nolens as head of the BIS Innovation Hub Centre…
A survey launched this week by Finastra revealed that close to 100% of financial institutions in Singapore and Hong Kong…
Stripe, the online payment infrastructure provider powering the likes Amazon, Facebook, Shopify, Zoom, Slack today announced opening of an engineering…
WeChat Pay, Tencent’s mobile payments system integrated into the WeChat super-app, has told its users that it will be giving…
The COVID-19 outbreak has taken a toll on startup funding with fintech investment dropping to levels not seen since 2016…
Banks in Hong Kong are embracing fintech, with innovations relating to mobile banking, open banking (APIs), machine learning and predictive…
The past couple of decades have seen a complete upheaval in where we buy things and how we pay for…
With businesses scrambling to recoup their losses due to the recent pandemic, digital e-commerce wasn’t left unscathed. Hong Kong’s small…
The University of Hong Kong and Standard Chartered Bank jointly announced the establishment of a Fintech Academy with the latter…
Virtual reality (VR) is one of the industries that has seen a boost and will continue to do well. Pundits…
The newly-released TransUnion Q1 2020 Industry Insights Report shows that COVID-19 has severely amplified the impact of the 2019 Hong…
Joint Electronic Teller Services Limited (JETCO) today announced its partnership with insurtech start-up GoLion to offer insurance APIs via the JETCO…
Virtual banking operator WeLab announced today that its’ #HKCashDrop is open for application today, on a first come first serve…
Tencent’s WeBank and OpenNodes a deep tech ecosystem platform backed by IMDA and powered by Tribe, have joined hands to…
Wave Money and Ant Financial today announced a strategic partnership to promote financial inclusion in Myanmar. Wave Money is a…
Volante Technologies, a global provider of payments and financial messaging solutions to accelerate digital transformation announced that Niche Global, a…
Fintech has been named one of the top priorities for South Korea this year. The government has said it will…
Despite the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, 20 Swiss DeepTech startups will be taking the virtual stage in Asia this…
Over the years, banks have been creating exponentially growing mountains of data – much of it with huge potential value.…