The Irish Government has launched Ireland for Finance, a new strategy for the further development of the international financial services...

The funds provided by Al Waha reinforce the volume of early stage capital available in Bahrain and the Gulf, filling the funding gap and...

Andrews says that Zopa has just struck a deal worth several hundred million pounds, to be deployed over the next 12 months, with a “large...

Goodlord’s CEO, William Reeve, said: “Offering deposit replacement insurance is just one of the ways we’re working to provide the best...

Great news for Trussle! Today, the UK’s first online mortgage broker announces appointment of two senior hires to the executive board....

Pagaya Investments, an AI-driven institutional asset manager that focuses on fixed income and consumer credit markets, today announced...

App-only bank N26 has become the second billion-dollar European banking startup to face questions over compliance.

In tech and startup circles, Indonesians are often associated with the “underbanked” buzzword. The country’s economy is still very much...

Just since months after raising $7 million in Series A funding, German SME banking provider Penta has been acquired by Finleap. Terms of...

Money laundering accounts for up to 5% of global GDP - or $2tn (£1.5tn) - every year, says the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime....

Insurance policies are confusing as hell, but the basic business proposition is pretty simple. For policyholders, it’s a way to get paid...

In tech and startup circles, Indonesians are often associated with the “underbanked” buzzword. The country’s economy is still very much...

Singapore-headquartered Coda Payments has been profitable for around a year and a half. That’s quite a feat in the crowded financial...

Grab plans to raise another US$2 billion from strategic investors this year, the company announced today. Once completed, it would bring...

Lemonade,  the insurance startup founded by Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger, has today announced a $300 million Series D...

report recent released by Visa looks at Southeast Asia’s journey towards cashlessness. In it, 43% of Southeast Asia’s respondents expect...

Go-Jek contributed 44.2 trillion rupiahs (US$3.1 billion) in added value to the Indonesian economy last year based on income made by...

Grab needs growth. Its current series H funding round is now expected to balloon to US$6.5 billion, indicating that investors continue to...

This white paper by Squirro explores some of the specific challenges these sectors are facing and outlines how Squirro for Corporate...

Pagantis, a Madrid-based fintech that offers funding on e-commerce sites, has closed a €65 million Series B funding round in debt and...

Brickblock, a technical service provider based in Berlin, has tokenized a residential real estate vehicle carrying a property in...

In brief: Indonesian fintech startup Akulaku invests $35m in local bank

• Indonesian fintech startup Akulaku has invested IDR 500 billion...

While many use CoinMarketCap as a go-to resource for cryptocurrency market data, roughly 95% of bitcoin trading volume reported by this...

British business lender OakNorth Bank more than tripled its profits in 2018, and said it had still not suffered a single default despite...

Fadi Ghandour

 March 27, 2019

I would have liked Careem to go public and remain independent because that is how you make the biggest...

Ovo, the mobile wallet associated with Indonesia’s Lippo Group, is speeding up its push into online lending by acquiring local p2p...

During Money 20/20 today, Grab made a few announcements along the fintech vertical, focusing particularly on areas that have historically...

Dutch bank ING is teaming up with the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) to build an artificial intelligence fintech lab.

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The Apple credit card is the latest offering by a Silicon Valley tech giant looking for a ready-made avenue into the financial services’...

Grab is in talks with PayPal and Alibaba’s Ant Financial as it considers spinning out its financial services unit to double down on its...

FlexBalancer now makes real-time traffic routing a real option for everybody. A service that was previously reserved for the biggest...