Asia

November 7, 2022 @ 7:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bursa Malaysia Berhad and the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), in order “to expand the ESG collaboration between the two exchanges as well as explore new areas of opportunity.” Under the MoU terms, Bursa Malaysia and FTSE Russell, LSEG’s… Read More

November 6, 2022 @ 10:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UnionDigital Bank, the digital banking subsidiary of Union Bank of the Philippines, recently announced its partnership with cloud-native banking technology company Thought Machine and has “deployed its core banking engine, Vault Core.” Thought Machine’s next-generation core technology has “enabled UnionDigital Bank to swiftly build its… Read More

November 6, 2022 @ 9:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The global wealth and asset management segment of Manulife Financial Corporation, Manulife Investment Management recently announced its cooperation with Singapore-headquartered environmental, social, and governance (‘ESG’) fintech Hashstacs Pte Ltd (‘STACS’). The cooperation centers “around the usage of STACS’ ESGpedia digital registry, which powers the ESG… Read More

November 6, 2022 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iLex, a Platform-as-a-Service fintech that designs, builds and operates digital market infrastructures for the US$6 trillion syndicated loans and private credit market, announced recently that it “has US$10 billion of assets listed on its platform.” The number of market participants across APAC and EMEA on… Read More

November 6, 2022 @ 8:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jakarta-based Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) is migrating to the Avaloq Core Platform to support “the success of its Wealth Management Division.” Avaloq will “enable the bank to digitalize key business processes and meet the needs of the country’s growing wealth management and private banking clients.”… Read More

November 5, 2022 @ 6:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ant Group Digital Technologies, a digital technology provider under Ant Group, unveiled its blockchain storage engine “LETUS” (Log-structured Efficient Trusted Universal Storage) at the Apsara Conference 2022 in Hangzhou. LETUS, which was developed and designed by the AntChain team, will “increase the effectiveness and lower… Read More

November 5, 2022 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra has announced that NBP (National Bank of Pakistan) has implemented Finastra’s Fusion Trade Innovation solution “to power its trade finance operations.” InfoTech (Pvt) Ltd., a systems integrator and Finastra’s exclusive authorized and certified reseller in Pakistan, “led the deal and implemented the solution, which… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 2:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pursuant to Regulation 30 of SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (Listing Regulations) and other applicable provisions/ regulations, if any, Infibeam are pleased to inform that the Reserve Bank of India has granted In-Principle Authorization to operate as a Payment Aggregator under the… Read More

November 3, 2022 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

METACO, the provider of digital asset management technology to complex, global financial institutions, announced that Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), one of the largest universal banks in the Philippines, has “gone live on METACO’s flagship platform, Harmonize™, to pilot the launch of crypto services… Read More

November 3, 2022 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paymob, the omnichannel payments facilitator in MENAP, embarked on the next phase of its regional expansion in the UAE market. This step marks “an important milestone in Paymob’s global growth plans, fueled by recent Series B funding led by PayPal Ventures.” Paymob plans “to make… Read More

November 3, 2022 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Partior has raised a Series A led by Standard Chartered with the support of existing investors JP Morgan, DBS, and Temasek – the Singapore government’s investment fund. The note from Partior did not include details on the funding round. Partior is a platform that strives… Read More

November 2, 2022 @ 12:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

DBS, a Singapore-based financial institution that operates across Asia, has announced that it has utilized permissioned DeFi liquidity pools on a public blockchain to test FX trading and government securities transactions. According to DBS, the first industry pilot included JP Morgan, and SBI Digital Asset… Read More

November 2, 2022 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Hong Kong has publicly asserted its interest in digital assets or “virtual assets” in a statement issued by the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau. The document states: “As an international financial centre, Hong Kong is open and inclusive towards the global community of innovators… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coreum, a “3rd generation,” layer-1 enterprise-grade blockchain, has announced the first wave of grantee projects “to be built atop the network.” Backed by the Sologenic Development Foundation, the grantee projects, including Zeeve, Telios, D’Cent Wallet, Stably, Common, and Amber, will “add significant value to the… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad has entered into an agreement with AntChain Technology Pte. Ltd., part of the Ant Group, “to build Malaysia’s first wealth SuperApp using AntChain’s proprietary mobile platform solution.” This agreement “follows from its recent MoU with AntChain.” Kenanga’s SuperApp aims “to help Malaysians… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Money Fellows, which claims to be one of the leading Egyptian fintech platforms, announces the first close of its Series B round “with a $31 million investment led by CommerzVentures, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), and Arzan Venture Capital.” Invenfin, National Investment Company (NIC) as… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 6:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SCB 10X, the venture investment arm of SCBX group, announced that it has invested $10 million in RakkaR Digital, an institutional-grade digital asset custody platform for institutions “powered by Fireblocks.” RakkaR Digital “provides institutions in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong with a highly secure custody… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 2:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), the country’s national securities exchange and among the “fastest growing” in the continent, is exploring the possibility of working with MetaVerse Green Exchange (MVGX), a digital green exchange licensed and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), “to develop Indonesia’s… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 11:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Green and Sustainable Finance Cross-Agency Steering Group welcomes the launch of Core Climate, the international carbon marketplace “set up by the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX).” Core Climate will “provide effective and transparent trading of voluntary carbon credits and instruments across Asia and… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 10:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Maybank Indonesia announced its Consolidated Financial Results for nine months ended 30 September 2022, “with Profit before Tax (PBT) of Rp1.48 trillion and Profit after Tax and Minority Interest (PATAMI) of Rp1.06 trillion.” The Bank’s PBT and PATAMI “remained comparatively stable to last year’s results.”… Read More