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Hong Kong Fintech Report 2022: HK’s Fintech 2025 Strategy Begins to Take Shape

Hong Kong continues to pursue its fintech ambitions, accelerating efforts related to regtech and central bank digital currency (CBDC). Meanwhile, the city’s eight virtual banks are seeing strong consumer uptake as they continue expanding their product offerings. Fintech News Hong

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Fintech in Hong Kong: 2021 in Review

Home to more than 470 fintech companies, Hong Kong is one of the most dynamic fintech hubs in the world. Despite the ongoing economic challenges of the global pandemic, the past year has seen Hong Kong’s fintech ecosystem returning optimistic

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KPMG Releases Annual Selection of China’s Top Fintech Companies

Consultancy firm KPMG has released its annual selection of China’s top fintech companies. This year, the China Fintech 50 report was extended to feature 100 companies to showcase the sector’s growth and fast-changing landscape. The 2020 China Fintech 50, which

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All You Have to Know About the Asian Financial Forum 2021

The Asian Financial Forum, Asia’s premier thought leadership platform for financial and business leaders, investors, technology pioneers and entrepreneurs, will return on January 18 and 19, 2021 in a brand-new virtual format with over 150 distinguished speakers exchanging insights, intelligence

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Top 8 Most Well-Funded Fintech Startups in Hong Kong 2020

Hong Kong is amongst the world’s top ten fintech hubs, and home to at least eight unicorns including cross-border payment services provider Airwallex, digital wallet operator TNG Fintech, and online lending platform and virtual bank operator WeLab. Over the past

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What Happened to Fintech Hong Kong’s Previous Pick of the Hottest Fintech Startups?

End of 2018 we named the 19 fintech startups we believed were the hottest fintechs in Hong Kong. Fast forward 2 years, we look back at these fintech companies to see what they’ve been up to and have nominated 15

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5 Fastest Growing Fintechs in Hong Kong According to IDC

IDC Financial Insights today released the 2020 update of its FinTech Fast 101 research which details a list of fast-growing FinTechs in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) from 11 key markets. IDC’s FinTech Fast 101 research refers to fast-growing fintech players

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24 Fintech Unicorns Were Born in 2019

In 2019, a record of 24 fintech unicorns were born, with more than half of them (13) being from the US, according to data from CB Insights. Following the US is Germany with three new fintech unicorns, and the UK

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The Greater Bay Area is Home to 43 Unicorns Valued at a Combined US$1.1 Trillion

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA) is home to 43 unicorns valued at a combined US$1.1 trillion. These unicorn focus on five key industries: e-commerce, healthtech, robotics, fintech and biotech, according to a new whitepaper by WHub, Hong Kong’s

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Fintech is Hong Kong’s Strongest Innovation Sector, Study Concludes

KPMG and Alibaba Entrepreneurs Funds’ joint report has made it official—fintech is ranked as Hong Kong’s strongest innovation sector, beating out segments like smart city, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, big data, and many others. The conclusion was found when entrepreneurs and

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