Over the coming months, some 2,000 Nets terminals will be enabled for QR code-based payments, rising to 10,000 by the end of the year.

The project will entail the exchange of digitised letters of credit for actual trade transactions between Japan and overseas clients,...

The three month programme saw eight promising startups put through their paces at SuperCharger's 2000 sq. ft. co-working office in Hong...

Created by Soramitsu, Hyperledger Iroha is a software framework administered as part of the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project that...

New Delhi, Apr 19 () Fintech company Paytm is believed to be in discussions with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank to raise over USD 1...

Illinois based lending platform MortgageHippo has raised $2.25 in Series Seed funding led by CMFG Ventures. MortgageHippo’s flagship...

Irish investment app platform Rubicoin has raised a further €1.4m in new funding bringing the company's funding total to over €5m....

Insurance companies will spend on average $90 million on artificial-intelligence technologies by 2020. That would place insurers in 4th...

The project comes out of Deutsche Bank’s innovation group and uses machine learning to reduce costs and improve accuracy as it parses...

Belgium based insuretech startup Qover has raised €5.5m in Series A funding led by Anthemis. Qover provides digital insurance APIs...

Stockholm based insuretch company Bima has raised $16.8m in Series D funding led by Axiata Digital. BIMA is an insurance technology firm...

The 2017 FT Future of Fintech awards are upon us, highlighting that China, cyber security, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology...

Goldman Sachs has amassed $115b in deposits, and is now expanding its online lending platform Marcus.  The combination of low cost...

Chiragh met Jakob Rost, who came equipped with the experience of running one of the biggest ecommerce companies of the archipelago,

As fintech expands, many the Republic’s start-ups are now focusing on one sector: wealth management.

What’s it like working in the...

Mobile payments is one of those areas of contention. It’s a lucrative and high-growth market, growing more than 200 percent year-on-year...

According to the Korea Times, the country's central bank has signed several retailers, including CU and Seven Eleven, for the trial.

At...

Under the terms of the agreement, helloPay will be rebranded as Alipay Singapore, Alipay Malaysia, Alipay Indonesia and Alipay Philippines.

The claims were made by elite hacking outfit Shadow Brokers in a blog post which railed against Donald trump's missile strikes in Syria....

Nomura, Asia’s global investment bank, has been at the forefront recognizing this new tech-driven innovation in financial services....

Commissioned by the Fintech Facilitation Office (FFO) of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the report aimsto carry out an...

During his current journey across Asia, the Swiss Finance Minister stopped by Singapore and visited the city-state’s fintech hub Lattice80.

The MoneyGram board of directors has unanimously approved the amended agreement, worth $18 a share in cash, up from the $13.25 initially...

Probably by now Europe's biggest FinTech success, Adyen, the Amsterdam-based company saw revenue double in 2016 and expects similar...

Belgian financial technology startup Qover has raised €5.5 million in a Series A round led by Anthemis.

No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem....This is a great Article on that side of AI

Affirm's loan volume more than tripled in 2016, growing to "hundreds of millions of dollars."  The company also expanded from 100 to...

Trov, the provider of on-demand insurance for individual items, has raised $45 million for its global expansion efforts. The company is...

FinTech startup Neyber, which allows employers to offer access to ‘affordable’ loans, has raised £7.5m in Series B funding.

An internal Santander memo leaked to Guardian Money says 10% of its global profits come from international cash transfers, and it charges...

Nearly 90% of the UK and European bankers surveyed believe the millennials will be using a single aggregation portal to access a variety...

Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group’s global payments chess gamecontinues as it announced in a release that its payments...

The bank says that it worked with Turkey's ABank, National Bank of Oman, United Arab Bank and other partners in Egypt and India to build...

Developed in collaboration with CogniCo - a graduate from the bank's startup accelerator programme - Emma interprets questions asked by...

“Blockchain is the most innovative technology in digital transactions. It represents the second generation of the internet and has...

Yielders, an equity-based crowdfunding platform for UK property investment, was given the green light by the Financial Conduct Authority...

The study is the second output of the Global Fintech Hubs Federation, an initiative by Swift's innovation arm Innotribe and the UK's...

Indonesia – the largest economy in the south east Asian region – is betting on the great big fintech opportunity riding on its...

NASDAQ'S Asia-Pacific unit is confident fintech-driven disruption in the region's financial services sector will fuel significant growth.

tryb Capital is not a VC (it is a holding company, not a fund), and is bringing a unique strategy to fintech investing

As I wrote last time,in 2016 China became the new leader in fintech worldwide with 39 per cent of global volume.

Vice versa,...

Fintech currency firm World First joined a U.K. Government delegation to launch its service in India. 

As the business accelerates...

Marvelstone CapitalSmartfolios, which focuses on building advisory and thematic investment technologies.

, a data-driven asset management...

Philippine-based financial technology (fintech) startup Acudeen Technologies became the overall winner for Seedstars World 2017, a global...

StatPro, a fintech company long before fintech was even a term, on Friday announced a deal to buy UBS’ Delta platform for €13 million...

Artificial Intelligence Science fiction has long cautioned us that the rise of artificial intelligence will likely mean the end of...

The service is not all that different from a similar effort by PayPal, whose PayPal My Cash Card lets you add funds to your online PayPal...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) signed a cooperation agreements with the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution...

With more than 20,000 enquiries logged since its launch in January, OCBC Bank announced today the success of the first-of- its-kind...

Texas based consumer subprime online lender has officially IPO'd this week (after a failed attempt in 2016) at a valuation of $242.5m.

There is a simple answer. High-tech collision-prevention systems on cars help prevent crashes but cost a lot to repair!

While young people around the world are struggling to get on the property ladder, an HSBC study found that 70% of Chinese millennials...

Dealbook profiles former Lending Club CEO and his new startup Upgrade, which will compete directly with Lending Club and has raised $60m...

London based personal finance app oval has raised €1.2m in Series A funding backed by Gruppo Intesa SanPaolo, b-ventures, DOCOMO Digital...

New York based insuretech company Wellthie has raised $5m in Series A funding led by IA Capital Group. Wellthie offers leading broker and...

Jakarta based payments platform Ayopop has raised $1m in Seed funding led by GREE Ventures. Ayopop allows users to pay a wide range of...

The changes for two pioneers of the digital advice space come as the sector matures; major banks and wirehouses are ramping up their own...

Jetty, the first insurance provider built for the city, launches today in multiple states to provide city dwellers a suite of insurance...

Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood is completing a huge fund raise to fuel its attack on old brokerage firms that charge around $7 to...

WhatsApp may be about to introduce peer-to-peer payments in India, which is its largest market with over 200 million users.

Quite some Blockchain/BitCoin funding, could also be that several of the Seed funded companies now need to get re-funded, and next to the...

Paris based bitcoin hardware startup Ledger has raised $7m in Series A funding led by MAIF Avenir. Ledger produces hardware where users...

The service, which will be launched as a pilot program for customers in June, will require a minimum investment of $10,000 and charge 50...

The integration between Bitbond and BitPesa is now live in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania. New borrowers who receive funding on...

Banks' Compliance Teams Shrink as Fines Decline, use of Tech will help to reduce costs further which increase detection. Some great...

Interesting read helping you to get a feel where Re-

insurers are heading! “We are transitioning into a risk knowledge company that...

And another partnership and Sandbox....next company will be a Sandbox comparison portal helping start-ups to navigate which sandbox fits...

He said the Commission was exploring new rules that would give fintech companies passporting rights to expand across borders and operate...

Looks like each month # of partnerships is growing between Cities, Banks and Start-ups! Great momentum