Asia

July 14, 2022 @ 9:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Personetics, which claims to be the leading global provider of financial data-driven personalization and customer engagement solutions for financial institutions, recently announced a partnership with iBank Marketing Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Fukuoka Financial Group and “widely recognized” as Neobank in Japan. By adding Personetics’… Read More

July 13, 2022 @ 10:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kini, an Indonesian on-demand payroll provider, has secured $4.3 million of seed funding led by East Ventures, with participation from Ten13, OurCrowd, K50 Ventures, and Goodwater Capital. Kini will “allocate the fresh funds to continue building out its HR-Fintech product suite, and invest in expanding… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong-based digital bank WeLab recently revealed that it has introduced its virtual wealth advisory service, GoWealth Digital Wealth Advisory. Clients may kick start their personalized investment plans from as low as HKD 100. In April 2022, WeLab had been granted Type 1 (dealing in… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UOB (SGX: U11) recently launched a Green and Sustainable Deposits solution for its corporate and institutional clients, which is reportedly “the first such product in Singapore offered by a local bank.” The solution was “piloted with GIC.” Under this solution, the deposits are “deployed to… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ant Group recently announced that its “privacy-preserving” Computation Framework becomes open source, aiming “to make the technologies more accessible to global developers and speed up the Framework’s application in various scenarios.” The Framework is designed “to address pain points in multi-party collaboration on information flows.”… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 9:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rey Assurance, which claims to be the first dedicated and integrated health, life and critical illness Insurtech company in Indonesia, recently announced $4.2 million in seed funding to advance its digital health products and tech platform. In addition to announcing the funding from the Trans-Pacific… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ancileo, a Singapore-headquartered software as a service (SaaS) solution provider for the insurance sector, recently revealed that it acquired $3 million in seed funding from Fermion. As noted by Ancileo’s management, it will be able to gain access to around 230 banking institutions and 150… Read More

July 11, 2022 @ 9:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tarabut Gateway, which claims to be the largest Open Banking platform in the MENA region with a market presence in Bahrain, the UAE and KSA, announced (earlier this week) two new appointments to its senior executive team, Nino Ocampo and Adnan Erriade. Nino joins as… Read More

July 10, 2022 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Delio (CEO James Jung), which claims to be a leader in digital asset finance in South Korea, has launched a Crypto Bank service and expanded its business into offering virtual banking services. Since its founding in 2018, Delio claims it has been “leading the Korean… Read More

July 9, 2022 @ 1:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As part of a self-discipline initiative, China’s leading technology companies have reportedly decided to enforce “real-name” authentication for NFT (or non-fungible token) buyers and also want to help users avoid secondary marketplaces The agreement (not legally binding at the moment) serves as confirmation from the… Read More

July 8, 2022 @ 11:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], which claims to be an international leader in payment services, is assisting its digital commerce customers with entering the fast-evolving Chinese markets. Over 1.38 million Chinese consumers currently order various items from other nations. As noted in the update, the key to… Read More

July 8, 2022 @ 10:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

International payments Fintech, Till Payments recently announced a partnership with Alipay+, a suite of cross-border payments and marketing solutions operated by Ant Group, in order to integrate Alipay into its Education product offering while exploring the potential integration of other virtual payment methods offered by… Read More

July 8, 2022 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FSS Technologies Singapore Pte Ltd., a provider of banking and payment tech solutions, announced a partnership with ACLEDA Bank, Cambodia’s largest commercial bank, in a multi-product deal “to consolidate and digitally transform its nation-wide merchant operations and automate its terminal monitoring, reconciliation and settlement processes.”… Read More

July 7, 2022 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Oasys, a blockchain developed specifically for the gaming community, announced that it has completed a private token sale round of $20 million “led by blockchain financing and investment platform, Republic Capital, with participation from Jump Crypto, Crypto.com, Huobi, Kucoin, Gate.io, bitbank and Mirana Ventures.’ Oasys… Read More

July 7, 2022 @ 6:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

YAP, which claims to be the leading Fintech “revolutionizing” the digital banking experience in the MENA region and South Asia, has raised $41 million “to fund its operations and growth.” The latest investment round includes contributions from Saudi Arabia’s Aljazira Capital alongside investments from Abu… Read More

July 7, 2022 @ 12:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

QNB, which is one of the largest financial institutions in the MENA region, has introduced  WeChat Pay and AliPay+ to its existing range of payment options that are accepted by its merchant network in Qatar, making it the first banking institution in the country to… Read More

July 7, 2022 @ 7:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based business financial platform Tide has teamed up with Transcorp International Limited in order to issue prepaid cards intended for SMEs across India. The co-branded Tide Expense Cards should be introduced as an entry product, supported by India‘s card payment network, Rupay. The Tide app… Read More

July 7, 2022 @ 7:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stock trading platform MarketWolf has finalized a $10 million Series A round that was led by Jungle Ventures and Dream Capital. Existing investors and others such as 9Unicorns, iSeed, Crescent and Riverwalk, also took part in the investment round. As mentioned in the update, this… Read More

July 6, 2022 @ 12:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As part of Amazon Egypt’s ongoing commitment to improve its shopping experience and offer clients in the country with flexible and affordable payment options, Amazon Egypt (amazon.eg) is offering installment plans via valU, the Buy-Now, Pay-Later (BNPL) lifestyle-enabling Fintech in MENA, a subsidiary of EFG… Read More

July 6, 2022 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Robo.cash noted that they will continue updating clients on the work of platform originators in 2022. RC Riga Singapore started the year confidently, “having significantly increased its loan portfolio.” Here are some key points shared by the Robocash team: 78% of loans… Read More