For the article please see the link attached, including more colour on our investment thesis and our believe in focusing on European and...

During the FinTech Abu Dhabi summit that took place on the 22nd and 23rd of October, the  CEO of ADGM Financial Services Regulatory...

Out of the 166 international applicants, only 11 companies were chosen to compete in the challenge.

The panel of judges included industry...

One angle that needs to be discussed more is how the introduction of these new services is also lowering barriers to most financial...

First reported by CCN in early 2014, the country’s central bank issued a public notice warning citizens to be careful of adopting virtual...

The cities' central banks have signed a fintech cooperation agreement that will foster collaboration on business referrals, joint...

Rumours had been circulating already last week amongst the financial technology startup community in Singapore that something was up at...

Countingup, a UK startup that combines a B2B banking app with a built-in accounting package, has raised £750,000 in seed funding. While...

The mainland’s private and public sectors are building on rapid advances in technology and readily available consumer data to develop...

Analysts are confident the city has an important role as a hub for the region, Analysts believe Hong Kong has the potential to serve as a...

Great article....seems a lot of consensus on the arguments. Main differences is that "off the grid desire" the author believes why crypto...

The hype around current token projects is doomed to fall, and after that, Buterin thinks, we all will finally understand which projects...

Mastercard has opened its permissioned blockchain to developed to build B2B payment solutions that address challenges of speed,...

29yr old Patrick Collison, CEO and co-founder of Stripe, backed up his stance of being a long way from an IPO by noting that “We are not...

Nearly all big tech companies havean artificial intelligence project, andthey are willing to pay experts millions of dollars to help get...

Prudential Singapore launched the PRU Fintegrate Partnership program to attract Fintech startups in Singapore and globally to co-develop...

Yolo, a Milan, Italy-based insurtech startup, raised €1m in its first funding round. Co-founded by Simone Ranucci Brandimarte and...

InsurTech startup Homelyfe has raised £2.4m in a Seed round led by Tallis Capital and Peterson Ventures. “Our vision for Homelyfe is to...

Portfolio company Trussle, shared the findings of its study. A study of 2,000 homeowners by mortgage broker Trussle shows many people...

After a week of near-constant outages for prepaid card users, Monzo affirms its third-party marketplace will become fundamental to its...

Industry experts weigh in on which, if any, of Europe’s fintech hubs might rise to prominence in the aftermath of Brexit, as the AltFi...

Our Fund I investment, ZOPA, securitised loans which received a warm reception in the market. The deal, which is the second...

See below a link to the coverage as well as the article below in the BVCA Journal, where we share a bit more on our investment philosophy...

Our Fund II investment, Squirro, is opening its first office in Asia, looking to use the new Singapore office as a base from which to...

Our Fund I investment, BUX announces that it has raised a €10.6 million Series C funding round in order to undertake ambitious product...

With the move, the 11 local and international fintech firms will work under the framework of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority...

Tagcash recently posted online a draft of its ICO white paper following the announcement by the Banko Sentral ng Pilipnas (central bank)...

Ida Nuryanti, policy and payment system supervision director at Bank Indonesia, on Thursday said the central bank would issue new...

The PRU Fintegrate Partnership (PRU Fintegrate) aims to collaborate with global fintech startups and to co-develop digital solutions for...

ITF, a fintech bank that U.S. investor Jim Rogers has invested in, will set up its headquarters in Hong Kong and aims to start operating...

According to the latest report by venture intelligence platform CB Insights, Asia recorded a total of 77 fintech deals in Q3, compared to...

Called Personalized Investment Ideas, the tool aims to help priority banking clients respond faster to market opportunities with...

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. said that it agreed to buy payments company WePay Inc. in the bank’s first sizable acquisition of a...

Last month, Digital Insurance Group won 3 awards for its KNIP product, which is now back in its #1 leadership ranks and also scoring...

Competition in China’s fast-growing online insurance industry is intensifying, as tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. recently secured a new...

Despite enormous advantages, most chatbots fail because of an unclear purpose and poor planning, warns a Forrester analyst

Firm predicts new service will help generate leads for brokers.Broker Worry + Peace has developed bespoke email addresses for customers...

"Whether risks are covered by people or technologies, insurtech poses no existential threat,” Colello said, during a keynote at Digital...

Russia will issue its own official cryptocurrency, the CryptoRuble, capping months of speculation about the country’s approach to the...

Shares of Qudian, backed by Ant Financial, which runs a mobile platform that allows college students and young workers to borrow amounts...

Portugese founded based risk management platform Feedzai has raised a $50m Series C led by an undisclosed VC with additional capital from...

“For us, it’s a very important move. It’s the first time anyone in Asia has done it,” says Mikaal Abdulla. “But the logic is very simple:...

Like with many innovations not all succeed, one of them failed, guevara, several others pivoted. In general it seems a complex model to...

This announcement generated a significant amount of interest as, although there have been a number of phase I reviews, this was the first...

“China, being the new technology power with companies such as Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba is also exploring this region and already has a...

The project focuses on specific real time gross settlement (RTGS) functionalities such as gridlock resolution and a liquidity-saving...

Bexs Banco, AirWallex, Credit Agricole, Cuallix, Currencies Direct, dLocal, IFX, Krungsri, RAKBANK, and TransferGo, among others, joined...

Nice overview of the ecosystem

Guidewire Software Inc., a provider of core operations software to property/casualty insurers, has agreed to acquire Cyence, a data...

Leveraging Octo’s world class Next Generation Platform, acquisition will bring globally recognised scoring/analytical capabilities to...

Hong Kong based AI wealth management software provider MioTech raised a $7m Series A led by Horizon Ventures, the private investment arm...

Cambridge based machine-learning driven fraud prevention startup Featurespace has raised a £16.5m funding round led by Highland Europe

Revolut, which offers a pre-paid card that lets people transact and hold in multiple currencies at low rates, has announced that it is...

Amazon has been engaging with banking regulators over the past two years and is rumored to be considering starting a consumer lending...

Like with all online and digital solutions there are not only positives, however if you list the negatives of the traditional offline...

India based online insurance comparison portal PolicyBazaar raised a $75m Series E led by Temasek and Tiger Global

New York based digital business insurance agency CoverWallet raised an $18.5m Series B led by Foundation Capital.

Ant Financial, the financial services arm of Alibaba, has unveiled an AI system that can calculate insurance damage claims in as little...

DLD has created a Blockchain system using a smart and secure database that records all real estate contracts, and links them with the...

Moneyfarm, the U.K.-headquartered “digital wealth manager,” has acquired the technology behind personal finance chatbot Ernest. Terms of...

This would be in line with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), where individual technologies are rapidly developing...

The Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA), the country’s information communications and media regulator, has...

Last week, the Hong Kong Government welcomed the unveiling of sandbox initiatives by three financial regulators to facilitate Hong Kong's...

The firm, started in 2012, is now worth US$505 million after listing on the Mothers Index Futures section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange,...

Guidewire Software Inc., a provider of core operations software to property/casualty insurers, has agreed to acquire Cyence, a data...

Starting with digital ID for governments, it could also accelerator the online on boarding and KYC process of clients.

Wall Street Journal indicates that IMF may issue its own cryptocurrency as new reserve currency.

Unlike JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and billionaire hedge fund founder Ray Dalio, who have recently disparaged Bitcoin, the world’s...

Featurespace was created out of Cambridge University’s Engineering Department, co-founded by world-renowned experts in applied...

Ping An Insurance China announced the launch of 10 innovative services backed by the world’s leading AI technology. The services are...

The pilots, developed in partnership with two life insurance companies, are designed to explore how the M-Panel predictive epigenetic...

InsurTech startup Canopy has raised £1.6m to expand across the UK. Launched in May, Canopy is looking to disrupt the property rental...

PremFina, a UK software firm which serves insurance brokers, has raised $36m (£27m) from Rakuten Capital. The round – consisting of...

OCBC Bank, HSBC and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), together with Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), have...

Praveen Raina, SVP, group operations & technology, OCBC Bank, says e-payments to other OCBC Bank business accounts and account...

Great initiative! Asia lacks standards, with these steps significant steps can be made cross regional! Making international scaling...

Too be expected...every industry is the same, banking, airlines, etc. First an attacker, incumbents do not react, followed by action of...

Lot's of M&A expected in the ROBO space, too many players with too little scale, but good tech and UX. Get bought by an incumbents...

Nick Bortot is CEO of Bux, an OGC portfolio company, mobile app aiming to take the complexity out of stock markets, and make trading fun....

OGC Portfolio company, Squirro Launches New Advanced AI Platform TRINITY to Enable Machine. Squirro’s TRINITY platform to become the...

OGC Portfolio company, Trussle study finds 8 per cent of people cry while attempting to get first mortgage Close to one in ten (8 per...

Loans platform says it will take on lenders by the end of this year. OGC portfolio company, Zopa, the UK’s first peer-to-peer lender, is...

Where human intelligence outperforms AI...

Curve founder and CEO Shachar Bialick, he said that the new Xero integration makes filing expenses “frictionless,” He conceded, however,...

Selected from 199 applications across 32 countries, eight startups have successfully completed the 12-week intensive program at Bangkok...

Traditional banks and fintech companies are the ultimate frenemies. The long-established traditional finance firms have carved up...

TNG will invest $20 million to launch a local electronic wallet in the United Kingdom becoming the first Asian financial technology...

With Bitcoin constantly setting new records, talks of how it is a bubble has been intensifying, especially by traditional investors. Here...

A lack of a single accepted standard, like FICO, is hampering access to credit for some 500 million potential Chinese borrowers.

ZhongAn the online Chinese P&C insurer has sold 5.8bn policies to 460m customers over a 3yr period, an almost unfathomable sales...

Harvey Schwartz President and Co-COO of Goldman thinks told investors this week that the firm can make $1B in extra revenue from its...

Germany based enterprise software giant SAP is reported to have purchased customer identity firm Gigya for a reported $350m. Gigya today...

Nice overview of the lending landscape also showing how it has changed. Perhaps the most important shift in online lending is the growing...