Following the UK banks’ ambitious move towards open banking, fintech hubs across the globe have been following suit, leading to…
Month: October 2018
Last year, a consortium of 61 Japanese banks banded together to test domestic fund transfers using digital currencies in hopes…
Following in the steps of international counterparts, Indonesia is setting its sights on blockchain as an enabler of increased efficiency…
As of the first half of 2018, 86% of the leading initial coin offerings (ICOs) that listed on a cryptocurrency…
7-Eleven outlets across Asia have begun offering banking services. In Thailand, a pilot program starting October 31 will enable 20…
Singapore’s annual Fintech Festival, one of the largest fintech events in the world, will take place in less than a…
Crypto.com announced that it has begun shipping MCO Visa Cards to customers in Singapore. The MCO Visa Card enables users…
Grab, which started out as a Southeast Asian ride-hailing platform that has since delved into “super-app” ambitions, announces a partnership…
EMQ, a financial settlement network in Asia based in Hong Kong, and FOMO Pay, a qr code payment solution provider…
There is still a lot of space in the logistics sector to use digitisation to achieve more transparency and, particularly,…
Cambodia’s startup ecosystem is experiencing growth, with tech investment on the rise. By Q2 2018, Cambodia had seen at least…
The Kazakhstan government is looking to turn its capital of Astana into an attractive destination for fintech companies as part…
Blockchain technology rose to the forefront in 2017 as the cryptocurrency bitcoin experienced a massive price boom. Suddenly bitcoin was…
ayondo Markets Limited, and Phnom Penh Derivative Exchange are establishing a collaboration through a white label agreement for ayondo to…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that 380 participating investors who enrolled for the Singapore FinTech Festival’s deal-making platform,…
Governments and private sectors from around the globe have caught the the artificial intelligence and machine learning bug. Reflecting the…
SWIFT recently shared the successful test results of its new instant cross-border payments proof of concept. This news follows on…
UOB Bank today announced the launch of its pan-regional engagement lab (eLab), with a goal of helping the bank converse with…
Blockchain has been mentioned as a technology that could be set to revolutionise many industries for a few years now.…
SWIFT in conjunction with Australia’s New Payments Platform (NPP) have launched a sandbox that allows independent fintechs to test the NPP…