The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Bank of Thailand, BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong Center (BISIH), People’s Bank of China…
Month: September 2021
The Board of Mox Bank Limited (“Mox”) announced the appointment of Barbaros Uygun as the CEO of Mox and Executive…
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com announced that it has expanded its total insurance coverage to US$750 million, including both direct…
TikTok’s owner ByteDance said on September 01, 2021 that it plans to scale back its fintech business and sell its…
Cross border payments firm Airwallex announced it has raised US$200 million in an oversubscribed Series E financing round, increasing the…
Globalization Partners, a US-based compliant and automated global employment platform, found that companies that grow internationally without prioritising compliance are…
American consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion has signed a US3.1 billion deal to acquire Neustar, an identity resolution company, from…
ZA One, an integrated financial services platform under ZA International, has rolled out a fund service for individual investors in…
Hong Kong’s virtual bank Mox announced the roll out of its ‘Instant Loan’ offering a year after the launch of…
The metaverse, a combination of “meta”, meaning beyond, and “universe”, has rapidly emerged as a major trend for companies around…
China has officially launched the Wealth Management Connect (WMC) with Hong Kong and Macau to carry out cross-boundary investment in wealth…
After a period of rapid growth and innovation, the Chinese Internet sector is entering a new phase of development on…
Financial institutions have been moving towards expanding digitisation for years, offering remote banking services, and prioritising the customer experience in…
PayPal announced that it has agreed to acquire Paidy, a Japanese buy now pay later solutions (BNPL), for ¥300 billion…
Despite advantages including cheaper operational costs and backing from tech firms with deep pockets, Hong Kong’s digital banks will face…
Web Summit, the company behind RISE, announced that the tech event will be returning to Hong Kong on 14th to…
In the virtual Demo Day held on September 2nd 2021, 17 teams from South Korea have successfully completed F10’s intensive…
Over the next three years, Huawei will be committing US$100 million into its Spark program in Asia Pacific (APAC), a…
ADDX, a Singaporean digital securities exchange formerly known as iSTOX, expects to enlarge its business in China after with a…
Payment infrastructure provider Stripe has deepened its partnership with China’s UnionPay International to widen its access to the booming global…