The international money transfer service will let users use the popular social media messaging service to send money and create...

Korea based fintech arm of messaging giant Kakao, Kakao Pay has received $200m in private equity investment from Alibaba affiliate Ant...

NEX Group, (formerly Icap), invested in a RSRCHXchange, a London-based startup that runs an online marketplace for research on stocks,...

Monzo raised £13M from Thrive Capital, £5 M from Passion Capital, and £1.5M from Orange Digital Ventures, the venture arm of telco Orange

It's tough trying to build a bank. Brett King once hoped his company, Moven, would become “the Facebook of banking.” Today, he is selling...

New Consumer Banking and Business banking models emerging rapidly...with very happy customers...now the big question is whether the...

Fintech startups in Asia raised a record US$5.4 billion from 165 deals in 2016, driven largely by large investments in China, according...

Thomson Reuters has officially opened Thomson Reuters Labs – Singapore.

The innovation facility aims to collaborate with customers, tech...

Overall investment falls to US$214m; number of deals dips by 2 to 28, indicating slide in average deal value

In 2016, there was a 65 per...

The trend has been confirmed — Asia is the leading region in the world, as measured by FinTech investment. Globally VC-backed FinTech...

Singapore is now recognised as having one of the most developed fintech environments in the Asia-Pacific which includes an expanding...

Kerim Derhalli likes to joke that he spent most of his career at banks that "have either gone bust, almost gone bust, or should have gone...

Nice header! Feels the industry is heading in this directions, while at the same time several disruptive models may be replace old...

Berlin based API-accessible banking platform SolarisBank has raised €30m in Series B funding led by Index Ventures. The company will use...

Would be a great move! Amazon is rumored to have an interest in acquiring Capital One.  The acquisition would enable cost savings by...

Compared to developed markets, insurance penetration in China is lagging. In this report, Oliver Wyman aims to illustrate the size,...

Beepi an online marketplace for used cars is inching toward winding down its business after blowing through $150 million in venture...

OnDeck Capital shares fell as much as 24% on Thursday after the online lender clocked-up record levels of loans under management and...

This investment by Blackstone will allow Cloudreach to continue to expand their geographic reach and further automate and expand their...

By buying Fortress, SoftBank gains a team that could help it find and structure deals, as well as an asset-management back office...

SVB released their 8th annual Startup Outlook report this week. Findings include tech startups seeing a bright future, as a growing...

California based online payments giant Paypal has agreed to acquire Canadian payment management company TIO Networks for $233 million....

Online lender Social Finance Inc. is nearing a deal to raise $500 million in fresh funds from an investor group led by private-equity...

Chinese mobile payments were nearly 50 times greater than those in the US last year,

Last 12 months we have seen strong momentum in the car financing, car repair and car management areas, areas Banks and Insurance used to...

The face of banking is changing across the region. According to analysis by KPMG International and CB Insights, US$4.6 billion in venture...

Thailand’s largest bank by revenue, Kasikornbank Pcl, has unveiled that it is planning to introduce a new FinTech platform by the end of...

Easier regulatory environment helps financial start-ups buck global decline. Europe’s advantage in financial technology has been...

Funding numbers are just like weather predictions lots of different forecast and it turns always out to be slightly different..funding...

Today we are introducing Kevinsured.com. Kevin is a chatbot that provides micro-insurance for your P2P transactions with strangers.

One of the many partnerships in place with U er, wondering what the real impact is of the partnerships.  Uber is offering MoneyFarm...

Everyone has that one fact they tell people when they want to blow their minds. Some of the best mind-blowing facts come from scientists,...

KUALA LUMPUR: Insurance companies in Malaysia are adapting to the Internet of Things (IoT) in gaining customer loyalty, especially among...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) isforminga new Data Analytics Group (DAG), as part of efforts to position itself and the...

It will collaborate with SMU to offer a scholarship that is worth S$180,000 (US$126,900)

PayPal has announced that it will partner with...

While globally VC-backed fintech companies saw a decline both in the number of deals and volume in 2016 from the highs of 2015, Asia...

SINGAPORE - Venture capital (VC) funds will soon be regulated under a slimmer framework, as regulators seek to ease start-up firms'...

India is all set to be the world’s fastest growing economy, and like all rapidly developing countries, it is seeing its share of economic...

A new report from Deloitte has been dismissed by the Hong Kong government after it ranked the city fifth for FinTech and three spots...

Change isn't going to appeal to everyone, but it's still inevitable. Here are four technology trends that will define 2017.

1. Collective...

N26 is iterating at an incredible pace these days with a ton of new product features and geographical expansions to build the most modern...

Sofu buys Zenbanx, Greendot graps UniRush,  and ANT buys moneygram. M&A activity is off with a great start in 2017!

New York based payment and social app Venmo has made headlines recently thanks to people taking advantage of the platform's social...

Cork, Ireland based financial services startup Global Shares has received €4.5m in Venture Funding led by technology guru Pearse Mee....

Belgium based fintech services startup BankUP has announced plans to launch its product in Q4 of this year. BankUP will provide services...

The advancement of technology has had profound impacts on almost every global industry in recent years including the insurance sector....

Payfit, the French payroll startup, is integrating with Alan, the French health insurance startup, to provide an integrated benefits...

Klarna's latest acquisition comes at is looking to build out a stronger presence across Europe in payments.  On the other hand,...

Dutch based payment processing startup Ayden has seen an 80% growth in payment volumes from 2015 to 2016 totaling at $90 billion. Ayden...

Singapore has experienced an enviable period of economic growth and prosperity. The island city-state tmaintains one of the highest...

Artificial intelligence is here to stay, and 2017 will be about the adoption of ML/AI by the FinTech community and beyond. Experts agree...

After a dry spell for tech IPOs in 2016, we are recording a good beginning for a new year with brightening IPO market globally. Snapchat...

CXA Groupinsurance technologystartup, has raised US$25 million in Series B investment round, co-led byB Capital Group(co-founded by...

With the growing utilisation of fintech in the Islamic finance sector, the question arises what role digital currencies and blockchain...

Imagine yourself ordering a bowl of instant noodles from a small food stall in a remote village. When it’s time to pay, the stall owner...

Fintech has been one of Malaysia’s golden children for some time now, and under the stewardship of Dato’ Muhammad Bin Ibrahim,...

Five polytechnic universities and the Singapore FinTech Association have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop programmes to...

The COO of UBS' Wealth Management arm said banks are committed to working with fintechs rather than seeing them as competition. This is a...

In the last decade alternative finance has emerged to threaten the traditional banking system and the lending industry. Contemporary...

The U.S. banking unit of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria paid $117 million for the digital banking startup. To date, the company has...

Nice practical article re Chatbots in FI

We’ve kicked off 2017 with a surprise acquisition of what was planned to be the first big IPO of the year — Cisco snapping up AppDynamics...

The big question, think it is not only AI, but in general how digital and remote will our social and business live be versus personal...

B2B has been also the strongest sector in Fintech especially in payments with players like Adyen, GlobalCollect and Stripe, but also in...

Though the majority of robotics deals went to US-based startups in the last five years, the share of deals going to robotics startups...

As a service industry Financial Sector should massively benefit from AI!

Looks like a nice move for ZenBanx, and a bit rich priced for SoFi, but is in Stock. Intend seems to with Zenbanx to becoming the center...

Some good prop tech companies tackling the unique problems for homeowners or investors!

Betterment will begin offering a "premium" plan that will combine human advice from financial advisors alongside its automated service...

Paris based robo advisor startup Yomoni has gained $5.4m in venture funding . So far, the company has 2,000 clients, representing $12.9...

Durham, UK based app-only bank Atom Bank has raised £100m in equity financing from previous investors including Toscafund and BBVA. Atom...

Younger investors are using mobile technology rather than a desktop, research by Hargreaves Lansdown has found. Not ground breaking news...

Mortgage broking pioneer Trussle, reaches £1bn of mortgages under management, and receives £4.5m lead by OGC

The UK’s first online...

Indonesia’s financial e-commerce provider, Cermati, has raised seven-digit USD funding from Orange Growth Capital (OGC), a fintech...

As a tiny country with limited natural resources, Singapore built its outsized influence on the world as a hub of global finance. With...