Cyberport signed a memorandum of understanding Ping An’s fintech arm One connect to o be among the first…

George Harrap, CEO and Co-founder of Hong-Kong based blockchain remittance startup, Bitspark, has outed SWIFT for hampering fintech…

Tencent and Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) have banded together to form a joint innovation lab, named the SZE…

Hong Kong is expected to see a boost in fintech activity after a relatively disappointing year in 2018…

Millions of cryptocurrency investors have been scammed out of massive sums of real money. In 2018, losses from…

In their quarterly results announcement, Tencent revealed that its fintech and cloud services generated RMB21.8 billion (US$ 3.1…

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Bank of Thailand (BOT) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)…

Insurtech investment continued its momentum with 85 deals totaling US$1.42 billion recorded in Q1 2019, marking the third-straight…

UPDATE: Four of Hong Kong virtual banks have since launched, check out our latest article to find out…

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) issued virtual banking rights to 4 more companies: Ant SME Services (Hong…

OneDegree, a Hong Kong-based insurance technology start-up under Cyberport Incubation Programme, extends its Series A round to above…

WeChat Pay, one of China’s most popular e-wallet providers, has just updated its payment policy to ban cryptocurrency…

In 2018 and early 2019, the Japanese fintech market witnessed significant developments. Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) published…

Asia is traditionally a region with low insurance penetration, and Hong Kong was no exception to that rule.…

The Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone or the Qianhai Special Economic Zone, is an experimental…

Virtual banks have finally made an inroad into Hong Kong’s financial industry. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)…

The Fintech Association of Hong Kong has released a new report exploring the Greater Bay Area (GBA)’s cities,…

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), is one of 17 global regulators that are participating in the Global…

Earlier this week, South Morning China Post reported that Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has issued its…

In May last year, the Cathay Pacific Group, via its rewards programme Asia Miles, launched an app utilising…

After his blockchain panel at the Internet Economy Summit last week, we had a chance to sit down…

Since president Xi Jinping announced a plan to gradually turn Hainan into a pilot free trade zone by…

“Everything you do in a fintech startup, you’re likely testing the law, one way or another,” said Cyberport’s…

This is not new rhetoric: most of us only ever heard of blockchain when cryptocurrency hit critical mass,…

As part of its overarching grand plan to boost fintech in Korea, the Financial Services Commission of Korea…

Futu Securities a Hong Kong based wealthtech firm recently bagged the “Digital Brokerage of the Year” award at…

Though relatively small when compared with the likes of China and Singapore, South Korea’s fintech industry has witnessed…

Taiwan has been trying to gain a foothold for itself as a fintech hub, but despite their best…

WeLab has been granted a virtual banking license by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (“HKMA”), becoming the first…

London-based design company Burgopak has just been awarded for their excellence in industry challenging packaging design at the…

China continues to be the world’s undisputed fintech leader, with about 600 deals completed in 2018 and a…