Asia

April 29, 2020 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Oriente, a Hong Kong-headquartered Fintech firm, has secured $50 million in capital through its ongoing Series B investment round. Oriente offers critical financial resources to its customers such as cash loans, online credit, offline-to-online consumer finance services, point-of-sale (POS) lending services, and the capital needed… Read More

April 28, 2020 @ 11:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SadaPay, an Islamabad-based Fintech firm, has reportedly been given in-principle approval by the State Bank of Pakistan, or SBP (the nation’s central bank). for an electronic money institution (EMI) license. SadaPay confirmed that the approval will allow it to provide certain financial services through its… Read More

April 28, 2020 @ 11:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

CoinDCX, India’s largest crypto exchange, has listed Crypto.com‘s MCO and CRO tokens representing Hong Kong-based Crypto.com’s entrance into the Indian market.  Two trading pairs are now available on CoinDCX: CRO/BTC & CRO/INR. The MCO token is a payment and finance digital asset within the Crypto.com… Read More

April 28, 2020 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FTX, a digital assets derivatives exchange that primarily caters to Asian traders and investors, will be introducing a spot exchange in the US markets. Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO at FTX, noted that the company’s US-based trading platform is presently in its beta testing phase. The spot… Read More

April 28, 2020 @ 9:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of China, one of the four largest state-managed commercial banking institutions in the country with over $3 trillion in assets, introduced its very first Fintech-focused regulatory pilot initiative in Beijing in 2019. The bank now says it will further expand its regulatory pilot… Read More

April 28, 2020 @ 9:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

dForce, a Chinese decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that recently experienced a hack that led to the loss of around $25 million worth of cryptocurrency, confirmed on April 27, 2020 that it will be compensating all its users for their stolen funds. This, after the digital… Read More

April 28, 2020 @ 8:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Helicap has secured $10 million in capital through a Series A investment round led by Saison Capital, the corporate venture capital division of Credit Saison, a Japanese consumer finance company. Helicap’s fundraise consisted of equity and redeemable preference share financing. Existing investor East… Read More

April 28, 2020 @ 8:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), which is Japan’s second-largest financial institution by market cap, will reportedly sign an agreement with SBI Holdings, a Tokyo-based financial services company group, in order to provide digital banking services via mobile devices. As reported by Nikkei on April… Read More

April 27, 2020 @ 11:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kolkata-based Fintech firm StockEdge aims to help India’s residents, particularly the younger generations, with learning more about how to responsibly and effectively invest their money in stocks, bonds, funds, and various other financial instruments. As the world struggles to cope with the economic challenges created… Read More

April 26, 2020 @ 10:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Korean cryptocurrency trading platform Upbit has reportedly expanded its partnership with Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis company, to provide support across the broader Asia Pacific (APAC) region. According to the duo, Upbit APAC will also use Chainalysis KYT (Know Your Transaction) to ensure safe, secure trading experiences… Read More

April 26, 2020 @ 8:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India-based Datacultr, a platform as a service provider that allows consumer lending firms to significantly reduce their risk on “new to credit”​ customers, confirmed that it will be enabling banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), and other financial service providers to lend securely while reducing risk… Read More

April 26, 2020 @ 8:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ping An Insurance Group, China’s largest insurance and logistics conglomerate, has released its Q1 2020 financial results for the three months ending on March 31, 2020. Ping An’s management noted that they are coping with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak by adopting measures which include a… Read More

April 26, 2020 @ 5:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An increasing number of consumers are now staying indoors and working from their homes, due to the deadly and highly contagious Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. There’s reportedly been a steady growth in digital wealth and online banking solutions and services are increasingly being used, even by… Read More

April 26, 2020 @ 9:42 am By Xu Gao  |  

People’s Bank of China Held 2020 Anti-Money Laundering Work Virtual Conference On April 15th, the 2020 PBC Anti-Money Laundering Work Virtual Conference was held in Beijing. The conference fully recognized AML achievements made by the People’s Bank of China (PBC) in 2019, analyzing the current… Read More

April 25, 2020 @ 10:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CPP Group Plc (CPP) has confirmed that its Indian-headquartered Business Process Management (BPM) firm Globiva will be extending its product offering to customers based outside of India. The company intends to offer services to clients in the US and the UK. CPP is based in… Read More

April 25, 2020 @ 8:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rajashekara Visweswara Maiya, vice president and head of business consulting, cloud and blockchain efforts at Finacle, the developer of a financial software system used by large banks across the globe (serving over 1 billion people), recently shared his views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. Finacle… Read More

April 25, 2020 @ 2:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based Axinian, an insurance technology (Insurtech) firm, has reportedly finalized its Series A+ investment round. To date, the company has secured $16 million in capital for its ongoing growth and development. Axinian’s funding round was led by InVent, the corporate venture capital division of Intouch… Read More

April 25, 2020 @ 9:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Singapore Fintech Association (SFA) and Razer Fintech will reportedly be offering Financial technology firms in the city-state bridge financing, equity or equity-linked instruments, which will range from anywhere between $100,000 to $1.5 million (appr. S$143,000 to S$2.1 million) According to an April 23, 2020… Read More

April 24, 2020 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

While everyone expects the People’s Bank of China to launch a limited trial of its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) or Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) as it is called in the country questions have frequently emerged as to how the government will utilize the… Read More

April 24, 2020 @ 12:54 am By JD Alois  |  

China has long been expected to become the first nation to launch a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Periodically, reports have popped up regarding the development of the digital currency and today we have another glimmer on the progress driven by the People’s Bank of… Read More