Singapore is looking to leverage its position as one of the world’s most developed fintech markets to become a leader…
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From September 10 to 12, 2020, Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) held the annual Huawei Developer Conference. Themed HDC.Together, the…
Singapore has shown massive support for the Belt and Silk Road initiative by the more recently economically open Chinese government,…
In developing countries, digital banking platforms and real-time payments have been driving financial inclusion, providing the underbanked and financially excluded…
Copenhagen and Singapore-based trade automation platform Tradeworks is about to launch Tradeworks 3.0, a new upgraded platform intended to take…
In Asia, online alternative finance is developing rapidly, notably in China but also in the overall Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. China…
Tencent, a leading Internet company in China best known for its popular platforms QQ and Weixin/WeChat, is the most active…
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has become a global phenomenon. In Asia in particular, alternative financing has experienced an explosive growth. Asia’s…
China has leapfrogged ahead of London, New York and Silicon Valley to become “the undoubted center of global fintech innovation…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced a series of moves to boost fintech development in the city-state and…
Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, has been appointed as Malaysia’s digital economy advisor as the…
KPMG has released a new report naming the top 50 fintech ventures in China, which include Ant Financial, Baidu Finance,…
Ant Financial, Alipay’s parent company and Alibaba’s financial-services affiliate, is said to be worth US$75 billion, according to Elinor Leung,…
In 2015, Asia’s fintech startups attracted US$4.5 billion in venture capital funding through 130 deals, making the region the second…
Ant Financial Services Group, Alibaba’s financial service affiliate that runs Alipay, has unveiled a new virtual reality (VR)-based payments service…
China’s open and supportive regulatory environment, highly developed Internet and e-commerce sector, and growing demand for alternative finance solutions, have allowed the…
The mobile payments industry is expected to become a US$142 billion market by 2019, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, a trend that…
Disruptive innovation in banking and payments is overwhelmingly coming from China. Established global banks had better watch out or they…