Warm welcome to Alix Brunet who joins us as an associate in our London Office. Alix is a French national, speaks French, Spanish and...

FinTech funding in Singapore looks set to soar this year as H1 2017 sees over $150m worth of investment already

A changing of the guard at TransferWise, the startup based out of London that specialises in providing money-transfer services, typically...

Cyprian fintech startup Capital.com has raised $25 million from Larnabel Enterprises and VP Capital and launched its mobile trading app....

Rimilia claims to improve the quality and speed of cash matching and credit collection while automating almost the whole process. And...

On the heels of announcing a fresh $70 million in funding led by Swedish investment firm Kinnevik AB, Betterment is launching a new...

Cleo, the London-based fintech startup that offers an AI-powered chatbot to help you manage your finances, has closed £2 million in...

Switzerland based employee compensation startup beqom has raised $35m in new venture funding from Goldman Sachs. Created in 2009, beqom’s...

The appetite is still strong for foreign investment in British financial-technology companies despite uncertainty over Brexit. 

Goldman Sachs has been active in this business for less than a year and is already in the billion-dollar club. It's been just over nine...

Fiserv’s takeover of British fintech pioneer Monitise is on shaky ground after an extraordinary general meeting was postponed to buy the...

Trying to jump-start increasingly weak sales of life insurance, some of the world’s larger insurers are looking to Discovery, a South...

Suleiman predicted that foreign companies such as Ant Financial and Tencent will make substantial moves in the Indonesian fintech space...

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FRSA) signed two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with the Labuan Financial Services...

The CIMB unit, Touch 'n Go Sdn Bhd, will be majority shareholder and Ant Financial a minority shareholder, the bank said in a statement...

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The Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) and The Australian Securities and Investments...

That was up from US$1.6 billion generated across 55 transactions in the same period last year, and marked the highest number of fintech...

Overall Asian fintech funding in Q2 stood at $2.7 billion, helped by Softbank’s $1.4 billion investment in One97, the parent of...

Metromile provides a frictionless claims experience with their new AI claims assistant. Filing a car insurance claim has traditionally...

Nasdaq is to acquire Sybenetix, a UK-based startup that applies behavioural analysis and cognitive computing to sniff our suspicious...

Kasikornbank (KBank) has developed its Letter of Guarantee(LG) service in the market with the introduction of the world’s first...

The SFA, a non-profit organization that aims to be a connector between various players in Singapore’s fintech ecosystem, created the...

DAVAO, Philippines -- AirAsiasaid Friday it plans to launch mobile payment services and other businesses, taking advantage of its...

Four fintech firms have been approved by the regulator — insurance aggregators GoBear Ltd and GetCover Sdn Bhd and remittance service...

Rather than Google, Facebook or Microsoft, increasingly Chinese duo Alibaba and Tencent are the driving forces behind the importing of...

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) have partnered to help Australian...

In Singapore, fintech adoption among digitally active consumers rose to 23 per cent this year from 15 per cent in 2015, the report...

LONDON — Accountancy software startup Receipt Bank has raised $50 million (£38.4 million) in a Series B funding round led by a New York...

The two companies - BlackSwan Technologies and Silent Eight - were part of the second Fintech Accelerator Programme run by OCBC Bank’s...

In a white paper published today, Trussle outlines five initial recommendations for a Mortgage Switch Guarantee, designed to address...

Samir Desai (Funding Circle CEO), featured on Bloomberg TV, says that opposite of conventional wisdom - the SMB lending business has...

The founders of Robinhood had a tough time with VCs early on, as the product had not yet launched or gained regulatory approval....

IBM Watson on the cutting edge of AI? Not so fast says Jeffries, who states that the firm trails other tech giants for hiring top tier AI...

Investments in private tech companies in Asia have topped those in the US for the first time following a series of giant funding rounds...

The Bank of England has carried out a successful test of an “interledger” programme developed by Ripple. The test did not involve real...

Investment bank Goldman Sachs has been awarded a patent for its proposed "SETLcoin" cryptocurrency settlement system.The US Patent and...

Asian alternative investment management firm PAG and China-focused private equity firm Primavera Capital Group have led a RMB800 million...

Hong Kong based financial aggregator CompareAsiaGroup has raised $50m in Series B funding led by International Finance Corp....

France based financial management platform Shine has raised €2.8m in Series Seed funding led by Daphni and Kima Ventures. Shine offers...

Jakarta based mobile point-of-sale startup Cashlez has raised $2m in Series Seed funding led by Mandiri Capital. Its wireless card reader...

London based credit card startup Curve has raised $10m in Series A funding led by Banco Santander. Curve combines all users’ cards...

New York based financial technology platform iCapital Network has received new investment from UBS Financial Services, who now joins...

HSBC Philippines President and CEO Jose Arnufo “Wick” Veloso said the local commercial banks and Fintechs “have a great deal to offer...

The agreements will enable ASIC to refer innovative fintech businesses to the SFC, JFSA and MSC for advice and support via the Fintech...

Some think that blockchain and Bitcoin are the same thing, but that’s not accurate.

They do consist of the same components; blockchain was...

BlackGarlic shuts shop BlackGarlic – founded by the same team that developed the on-demand food delivery service Klik-Eat, which was...

SINGAPORE -- The "regulatory sandbox" system, which suspends regulations on a trial basis at the request of businesses, is a key...

The CA enables the BOT and MAS to share information on emerging market trends and their impact on regulations. In addition, the two...

Headquartered in Beijing, CreditEaseprovides wealth management, credit management, microfinance investment, and microcredit loan...

These are good times for AI entrepreneurs. Recent analysis of venture data shows that funding for artificial intelligence startups...

Digital banks are one of the hottest investment sectors in fintech right now, as Revolut’s recent $66 million series B shows. However,...

Starting Sunday, the partnerships will allow online merchants using Stripe to integrate the ability for Chinese users to pay with Alipay...

The London city is pressing the government for a new ‘digital skills visa’ to improve the position of Britain as a financial technology...

ICOs feels like a ticking time bomb, but let's see

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, a Zurich, Switzerland-based context intelligence & insights solution provider, completed a $10m Series B funding round.

The...

The acquisition is expected to strengthen Jukir’s electronic payment service, the startup said in a statement. Following the deal,...

According to areport in TechCrunch, the financing came via a so-called token sale, otherwise known as ICO. With the round of...

Banks are increasingly facing pressures on their revenues, largely driven by shifting consumer demands, the rise of fintech, and foreign...

The private investment platform, which has helped investors invest $75 million in businesses since it launched two years ago, will work...

Over the past couple of years, Singapore has signed multiple Fintech agreements with other countries similar to this one. These are all...

At the time, she said her vision was to make Australia one of Asia's leading markets for fintech innovation. That vision remains unchanged.

Inspiring interview by Ishaan Malhi on future of Mortgages and Trussle, an OGC portfolio company.

Three-quarters of UK university leavers will never pay off their student loans, even if they are still contributing in their 50s,...

French startup PayFit just raised a $15.9 million Series B round from Accel. The company produces legally compliant paychecks, wire...

London based banking app Tide has raised $14m in Series A funding led by Anthemis. Tide is a digital-only banking app aimed at small...

Ohpen, founded in 2009, is a cloud-based core-banking engine, built for the efficient administration of retail investment and savings...

The money will give Itochu a one-third stake in Pasar Dana Pinjaman (“Loan Fund Market”), a subsidiary of the Sinar Mas Group, a palm oil...

They now have presence in multiple markets such as Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, with more markets...

In China, 69 percent of digitally active consumers used two or more fintech services in the last six months, while in India, the figure...

This partnership will see the two fintechs cooperate in terms of data sharing, technical integration as well as leveraging each other’s...

Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos at the weekend, the Senior Manager Fintech Practice, KPMG, Ladi Asuni, said the festival was...

CredoLab said that the newly-raised capital — twice the amount it originally intended to raise — will be used to ramp up its product...

Following the establishment of a framework for co-operation on FinTech innovation with the Japan Financial Services Agency (JFSA) earlier...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority(Danish FSA) signed a fintech co-operation...

Over a year in the making, BNP Paribas’ Client Experience program (CX) involves a series of innovations and solutions which are now...

Exciting news! Knip Merges with KomparuEurope’s first digital insurance broker, Knip, and Netherlands-based comparison-software provider...

London based mobile payments and consumer loyalty company Yoyo Wallet has raised £12m in Series B funding led by Metro Group. Launched in...

According to VentureBeat, high mobile penetration, geographic closeness to China and India, horizontal platforms, strong social impact,...

Bloomberg likens the process to a mountain surrounded by rising flood waters: The base is easily traded markets, such as stocks. Higher...