Southeast Asian countries are working to cultivate homegrown financial ventures by temporarily waiving regulations to let them experiment...

Germany’s Penta is the latest European startup to throw its banking wares into the ring. The burgeoning company is launching a new...

The UK online alternative finance market grew 43% in 2016 to reach £4.6 billion, buoyed by increased institutional investment and a...

State Street has become the latest banking colossus to invest in a UK financial technology start-up by backing PensionBee, which helps...

No one knows who’s liable if a program goes haywire, as regulators struggle to keep pace

Nice overview! Life Epigenetics, GWG Holdings’ Insurtech Subsidiary, Releases Infographic Timeline of the Impact of Epigenetics on the...

Ping An launched Smart Insurance Cloud in September. The Smart Insurance Cloud includes two AI-based solutions called Smart...

Tech unit of Hong Kong-listed ZhongAn Online Property & Casualty Insurance targets 23 million birds for project ‘GoGo Chicken’ in...

Reinsurance investment into InsurTech rose to $1 billion in Q2 2017 – an indicator that reinsurers are accelerating the pace of...

Onfido, a global leader in Identity Verification, is helping to bring financial services to the 2 billion unbanked individuals worldwide...

Uber rolls out insurance plan for couriers with AXA, AXA has been a frontrunner in insuring the Sharing economy, which has a lot of...

Each year, tech consulting giant Accenture makes predictions about the kind of technology we’ll see at the annual Consumer Electronics...

As enterprises and society at large struggle to wield the massive amounts of data flowing off of devices, infrastructure, workflows, and...

Is Monzo the Facebook of banking?It is a truly unusual thing – a bank young people are excited about. But while its speed and ease of use...

With the growth of FinTech across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and generally across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), it is...

At the road show today, Fintech Center and Fintech Association of Malaysia (FAOM) has signed MOU for further collaboration in Fintech...

WorldRemit’s mobile-first, digital model allows migrants to send money in a few taps directly from their phones or online instead of...

The curbs, effective from Jan. 1, won’t apply to trading of digital currencies, Bank Indonesia Deputy Governor Sugeng told reporters...

In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the financial technology sector, or fintech, is coming of age with regulators and governments...

Thailand ranks seventh out of 10 Asian countries in terms of regulatory advancement and financial attractiveness on a Taiwanese...

Nice overview of Belgium landscape!

Stellar was recently picked up by IBM for payments in emerging markets. This happened last month, but articles are still coming out as...

The $90m-funded digital first bank is trying to erase the divide between merging traditional banking and cryptocurrency by letting its...

Former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg, has backed a funding round for Cytora, a start-up aiming to revolutionise the industry by using artificial...

Because there’s no reason why it couldn’t. And that’s the problem. Unlike any other market in the world, there are no natural sellers in...

We are now Finch Capital We are thrilled to announce our new brand, Finch Capital, which reflects the firm’s financial technology focus...

DBS said its digital customers were 42 per cent more profitable than “traditional” clients as it highlighted the sharply higher margins...

“Traditionally, the unlisted and OTC market space have been opaque due to the lack of information available,” SC chairman Tan Sri Ranjit...

According to a filing to the Indonesian Stock Exchange, Bank Rakyat Indonesia paid IDR 71.32 billion (US$5.28 million) for 71,207 shares...

Limited access to capital is a common problem among Indonesian farmers. Many of them are unbanked and often struggle to secure loans from...

The establishment of offices in Hong Kong and Malaysia come as a result of research into strategic growth in the region. The two new...

In its recent Financial Stability Review (FSR) report, the Macroprudential Surveillance Department of the Monetary Authority of Singapore...

It has been a breakthrough year for the world’s original cryptocurrency – and on November 28th, 2017, the bitcoin price blew past the...

The rise of online consumer loans in China has spawned a thriving black market in stolen user data.

With the advent of digital technologies and heightened awareness of the digital customer, traditional channels are struggling to keep...

Even Popeye needs some help from spinach.  In this post, I look at the importance of the Insurance agent and some Insurtech startups...

Hamburg based open banking platform provider Deposit Solutions has raised a $20m funding round led by e.Ventures and Greycroft.

Coinbase has more than doubled its number of users in just 12 months,  adding 300k users in the last week alone.  At the...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said it would allow the CME and CBOE, two major Chicago exchanges, to launch bitcoin...

Many central European cities are vying to lure coders and entrepreneursWarsaw, Talinn and Prague are positioning as future fintech capitals