Piyush Gupta sees himself as uncomfortably close to the action in the battle between traditional banks and China’s insurgent fintech...

Santander, the Spanish banking giant and lender, is gearing up to launch a digital bank in the U.K. that is a...

French payment services business Worldline is to buy Swiss stock market operator SIX Group’s payments unit in a cash and shares deal that...

The largest credit bureau in Central and Eastern Europe, Polish Credit Office, is teaming up with local DLT specialist Billon to move...

HSBC has completed the world’s first commercially viable trade-finance transaction using blockchain, opening the door to mass adoption of...

Ant Financial, the Chinese payment affiliate of Alibaba, has more than 600 million users, the first time the company has said how...

Commerzbank

has traded an FX forward with industrial group thyssenkrupp in which the pilot transaction was instantaneously replicated in...

GreenSky

is scheduled to go public this week at a price ranging from $21 to $23 a share, giving it a valuation of up to $4.4 billion. The...

In recent months, taxis got them. Now stores and boutiques have them.

They’re all signs of a battle brewing in Hong Kong that will test...

t will invest about $500 million to move into four new markets in Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines over the next several...

IN THE strongest public reprimand from Singapore regulators over digital tokens, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has stopped an...

Traditional banks see online payment and financial services providers as their biggest threat, but they can still be a part of the shift...

In Vietnam financial technology is increasing bank penetration, promoting financial services and offering the large unbanked population...

It’s one of PayPal’s largest purchase to date, but they are not the only ones paying big bucks for fintechs. This trend is resonating...

If you only read United States-based media, you might think that Stripe is the most valuable, buzziest payments startup around. But it’s...

According to a consultation paper published on Tuesday, MAS states that the current single-tier "recognized market operators" (RMO)...

Meanwhile, the three companies – Black Cactus, Zebi and Belfrics – that have set up operations in Visakhapatnam and are in the process of...

Unregistered companies will not be allowed to tap financial markets or raise money from banks, said Nurhaida, vice chairman of OJK,...

The report is a synthesis of the latest remittance data and analysis and remittance-market profiles on 50 individual countries. The...

At the Visa Security Summit last week, Tan Yeow Seng spoke about how modern technology has shaped many aspects of Singapore’s evolution,...

Due to Singapore’s business-friendly environment, it hosts a large number of new blockchain startups. According to Ravi Menon, the...

“We are in the front line,” said Gupta, 58, who took over at DBS in 2009 after rising up the ranks at Citigroup Inc. DBS is more exposed...

Bank says letter of credit for Cargill opens door for technology in $9tn market.

Great news for our portfolio company, out of Fund II, Trussle, the U.K. online mortgage broker that announced a GBP ±14m funding round,...

In a digital connected world, with real time seamless payment possibilities, not sure what the news value is to pay near your...

Robinhood started off as a dead-simple stock trading application that had no transaction fees — but since it’s continued to grow, and...

The UK housing market has cooled down on the heels of the EU/Brexit referendum vote, but that hasn’t stopped M&A activity around...

Capital One has acquired the San Francisco-based digital identity and fraud alert startup Confyrm, the company announced through a blog...

Digital services have frequently been in collision — if not out-and-out conflict — with the rule of law. But what happens when...

Carro, an automotive classifieds service and car financing startup based in Singapore, has closed a $60 million Series B round to scale...

Squirro, the AI driven context intelligence and insights solution provider, has announced the launch of a new application that brings the...

We are proud to announce we invested in Brickblock.   The real estate sector is the biggest investable asset class in the world,...

Nice competitor landscape analyses covering Brickblock. 

Going forward, when benchmarked against emerging markets, MENA is anticipated to experience a new era of fast growth. Fintech funding has...

The move comes as the Emirates looks to shift to a cashless economy by adopting digital wallets and mobile payments.

Dubai Holdings’...

This is as fintech lowers costs significantly, and can thus bring more people into the financial system.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB)...

The growth of sharia fintech in Indonesia has been rapid. In fact, the country’s Sharia Fintech Association, which was established only...

The quartet aims to foster a "thriving AI ecosystem" and jointly facilitate research and development of new AI technologies and...

The name of the largest crypto currency wasn’t chosen by accident. The term «Bit» is taken from IT and is a unit measure of data, while...

The total value of tokens on Zilliqa, a blockchain network founded by a Singapore-based company with the same name, has broken through...

Which companies will come to define the blockchain world? One way to judge – although it is imperfect – would be the amount of money they...

PolicyPal and FWD enter MOU to explore using blockchain technology and smart contracts to accelerate disruption of insurance sector

Blockchain is gaining popularity across industries. While the technology holds long-term promise of transformation and business model...

MALAYSIAN based SaaS (software-as-a-service) HR company, Swingvy, with offices in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Seoul, announced yesterday...

Rippleannounced that five new customers across Europe and Asia will use xVia to power payments over RippleNet, its blockchain network.

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Small business lender iwoca has raised an additional £50m in a debt facility provided by a syndicate of banks.

The debt increase was led...

As the world becomes more connected, cyber risk appears as a bigger threat on the digital transformation journey of insurance companies.

Insurers are beginning to answer questions around how and when blockchain will be fully utilized in the industry, as multiple...

The $2,5 billion e-invoicing company is today launching its first pure consumer app, which gives users an overview of their Klarna...

Nice read on the debate around crypto assets

Nice overview of competitors in the Real Asset tokenisation space. The investment industry is being disrupted by the emergence of...