Chief among the beneficiary of this exercise is Malaysia. While many of these government to government initiatives are largely focused on...

A recent survey by MIT Sloan has shown that less than a third (23 per cent) of businesses have adopted any level of machine learning...

Our Fund II portfolio company, Squirro, openend up in Singapore opened up recently, after it expanded into the US in 2016.

Broker providing pay-as-you-go insurance for the sharing economy secures funding from Balderton Capital. Zego was founded by former...

Good read re Zhong An

Impressive organised conference by Fosun and the IAC, we also presented at the conference. Was great to hear the different presenters...

Insurers in emerging markets are introducing innovative solutions faster than their peers in more developed insurance markets as advances...

Given Lyft’s promised arrival in Canada by the end of the year, insurance coverage for the ride-sharing service remains a big question...

Munich Re launches all-in-one insurance solution for Greater China marketMunich Re has released a modular all-in-one insurance solution...

Fintech startup Revolut has reached a big milestone. The company now has over a million customers across Europe two years and a half...

UK-based fintech, Glint, has launched its debit card and accompanying account, which will allow users to purchase gold and use it as a...

TransferMate, a payments company based in Dublin, has raised €30 million from Allied Irish Bank (AIB). The AIB partnership will help...

Payments company says it will connect its apps to investing service Acorns Grow, which also illustrates that Robo itself likely becomes a...

The new integration sees Yoyo use Starling’s Open Banking-compliant API to let you link your Starling bank account to your Yoyo Wallet so...

The Manila Times reported that SEC Commissioner Emilio Aquino stated in a news conference in late November 2017 that the agency plans to...

Plans are afoot to go to the next stage of growth with preliminary steps for a public listing in Hong Kong that could raise approximately...

Central bank governor Tan Sri Muhammad Ibrahim also noted the possibility of digital currencies becoming the “new norm” and that the...

Many are preaching the use for bitcoins in Asia in cross-border transactions, which can be faster and cheaper than those coursed through...

Fintechs that partner banks rather than compete have seen a 138% increase in funding.

Collaborative fintech firms, or those that offer...

The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) signed a cooperation...

Developed in collaboration with CB Insights, the report revealed how China’ booming e-commerce is giving rise to new insurance products...

Great overview of 62 insane facts re BitCoin

n February 2018, a new accelerator is set to officially kick off in Bahrain. The new facility will be focused on fintech startups in the...

DIFC, which is a financial free zone administered by the government of Dubai, devised the fund as a way to accelerate the development of...

Speaking as a guest lecturer at the University of Indonesia's Faculty of Economics on Friday, Wimboh said the fintech center aims at...

A research published last year warned about the risk of the abundant access to motorcycle loans, a currently perceived phenomenon in...

Meetups across the continentMalaysia

Our journey began from the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Followed by Shanghai, Singapore,...

Reflecting Asean's demographics, payments and mobile wallets are attracting the highest level of funding in Asean, registering a tenfold...

SINGAPORE: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) rolled out a number of initiatives on Tuesday (Nov 14) as part of efforts to...

...Not only for spanish banks:)

AXA, the French insurance giant, has set its sights on expanding its finance team’s big data expertise in 2018. AXA is one of the most...

Standard Chartered has announced that it will launch a chatbot powered by Kasisto to help clients manage money, make payments, and...

European payments group Transferwise nears profitability.  Interesting comparable if you compare like for like a player like Adyen...

Finnish fund manager FIM is introducing the first investment fund in the Nordic region, where a self-learning algorithm gets to pick all...

Singapore has stepped up its fintech ambitions with the offer of a S$27m ($19.91m) grant to promote the further use of artificial...

In about 2014, most bitcoin companies quickly pivoted to the “next big thing”: blockchain. Among them were the financial and fintech...

Singapore’s central bank has launched a batch of initiatives — including helping banks create an industry-wide platform for compliance...

Flux, the London fintech startup founded by former early employees at Revolut, has announced a partnership with Barclays in the U.K....

The bank is collaborating with data centre provider Equinix on the project, which will will entail the relocation of its main site to...

A new breed of firms promises to make the process of getting a home loan quicker and slicker. We logged on to check out the claims

They...

On November 6, 2017, the Securities Commission (SC) of Malaysia released a statement regarding blockchain technology and other...

Announcing its entry into the fintech space, Digi is offering Malaysians an easy way to pay, send, request and store money in their...

THE second Singapore FinTech Festival turned greater attention on financial inclusion this year, amid reports that fintech can help to...

SINGAPORE has charged ahead by inking several fintech partnerships, putting it ahead of other fintech hubs in establishing new ties...

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A select group of financial services technology (fintech) companies demonstrated their products and services...

STRONGER signs of maturity from fintech investment trends in Asia emerged in the third quarter, with Chinese corporates having expanded...

Blockchain consortium R3 and 22 of its member banks have collaborated on the development of a cross-border payments platform built using...

TransferWise, the international money transfer company and one of Europe’s better-known unicorns, has announced $280 million in new...

A new integration to simplify payments for hundreds of thousands of SMBs has been announced between Worldpay and Xero. As part of this...

UK based predictive analytics startup WePredict raised a $4m funding round led by Munich Re.

Deloitte claims in a new study that over 26,000 new blockchain-based projects were launched in 2016.... however, have become inactive...

Alibaba and Tencent, through affiliates, are already providing small-scale digital insurance such as drone accidents and flight delays....

To be expected....from off grid to back on the grid....SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said so-called initial coin offerings in many cases...

Singapore-based artificial intelligence startup AlgoMerchant today announced that it has raised more than US$2 million of investment from...

In a statement underscoring the fundamental shift in skills important to financial services firms today, the CEO of Societe General said...

Nice statistics: 25 million users!

No one can dispute the success of Amazon in the UK as a digital retailer, and many insurers have held it in high esteem as a company to...

What do you get if you combine the Internet of Things with the business of home insurance? U.K. startup Neos is hoping the answer is...

CEO of Squirro is at Dreamforce presenting Squirro's product for Salesforce clients. If you like to meet him, let him know! 

Implications of a potential rate raise on affordability at ZOPA, which is a Fund I investment.

Nice interview of Ishaan, Founder of Trussle, which is an investment out of Fund II

Paris based blockchain startup Stratumn has raised a total of $8m in Series A funding led by Nasdaq and Digital Currency Group.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has published a comprehensive plan to make Singapore a leading international financial center - with...

After originating £1.6bn in invoice financing for UK businesses, MarketInvoice is launched a standalone business loans service.  The...

In the latest trend towards full-stack fintech companies, UK prepaid card provider cashplus is seeking to receive a full banking license....

$6b ride-hailing company Grab, with a strong presence in seven markets across Southeast Asia has announced a payments platform similar to...

Bank Negara Malaysia, the country's central bank, added further participants to its «Fintech Sandbox», according to the bank fintech...

The deal, which was laid out in a conditional and non-binding HOA (heads of agreement), will also see the SGX-listed Artivision buy out...

1. Asia has leapfrogged legacy payment methods

The overall smartphone adoption rate as of Q4 2016 is 51% across Asia, with rates as high...

Zahid ur Rehman Khokher, acting secretary-general of the IFSB, was speaking at the organisation’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur to the

U.S. asset management company Old Mutual Global Investors and Silicon Valley venture capital firm IVP led the investment round in the...

According to an Oct. 30 statement, the State Bank of Vietnam said that cryptocurrencies are not a "lawful means of payment" in the...