Asia

February 12, 2019 @ 10:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Hong Kong Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, James Lau, is visiting Ireland to foster closer financial co-operation between the two countries. According to a release, Lau met with the Minister of State at the Department of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform of… Read More

February 12, 2019 @ 9:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standard Chartered Bank announced on Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Linklogis to explore opportunities to enhance its supply chain financing proposition and deepen client relationships in China. Standard Chartered reported that it will use Linklogis’ force as a digital blockchain-enabled supply chain… Read More

February 12, 2019 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), the leading research institute for all things Fintech,  has launched its first survey of Regtech (regulatory technology) and Suptech (supervisory technology) firms. The new report is being completed in partnership with EY Japan. CCAF states that fieldwork is… Read More

February 12, 2019 @ 3:11 am By Erin Hobey  |  

According to Innovate Finance‘s new report 2018 FinTech VC Investment Landscape, investment in UK Fintech rose by 18% to $3.3 billion in 2018. Some additional highlights from the report include: Growth private equity investment rose 57% to $1.6 billion, while venture capital dipped to $1.7 billion… Read More

February 12, 2019 @ 1:38 am By JD Alois  |  

The Australia Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has issued a statement regarding payment of a fine by Byte Power Group Limited. Byte Power, a company that is engaged in diverse businesses such as food and wine and power management, paid ASIC $33,000 after the regulator issued an… Read More

February 11, 2019 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Elevated Returns (ER) and Securitize claim they will tokenize $1 billion of real estate assets using the Tezos blockchain. Elevated Returns is the company behind the first tokenized real estate offering with the launch of Aspencoin last year. Securitize is a compliance platform for digitizing securities…. Read More

February 10, 2019 @ 5:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Peer to peer lender Beehive announced on Saturday it has formed a partnership with Thanachart Bank to launch a new SME value chain financing program in Asia. Beehive reported this was its first bank collaboration in Asia and the digitalized supply chain will provide improved liquidity… Read More

February 10, 2019 @ 11:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Gox Rising Limited, a corporation incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, has scheduled a series of calls to discuss a plant to relaunch  Mt. Gox Exchange. Mt. Gox Exchange, a Bitcoin trading platform that was based in Japan, remains one of the most famous crypto… Read More

February 8, 2019 @ 11:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fintech hub LATTICE80 announced on it is listing KAYA Token Futures on Delta Exchange. According to LATTICE80, the KAYA Token Futures was launched to offer a “crypto volatility free platform” to fintech startups and the KAYA network is part of the company’s vision to connect the… Read More

February 8, 2019 @ 1:44 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bankers at Korea’s central bank, the Bank of Korea, have issued one of the most decisive warnings against the creation of a central bank-backed cryptocurrency so far, The Korea Times reports. International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde called last year for an “even-handed approach” to… Read More

February 7, 2019 @ 10:23 am By Cali Haan  |  

The hospital in Jaipur, Rajasthan, where Canadian crypto exchange CEO Gerald Cotten spent his last hours has confirmed that he died there from a heart attack caused by complications from Crohn’s disease, Times of India reports. Cotten’s untimely death may also have devastating consequences for… Read More

February 7, 2019 @ 9:38 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Last week the NEM.io Foundation made a major move toward transparency and “reboot” of its operating structure after checking the books and seeing “little to no accountability for funds.” “When the new council opened the books on 2018, we saw a lot of talented people… Read More

February 6, 2019 @ 7:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Like elsewhere, Indian officials have been contemplating how to properly regulate cryptocurrencies for some time. Now a report from Quartz India says Indian regulators are currently “obsessed” with how cryptocurrencies might destabilize standard currencies, specifically the rupee. Inflation and counterfeiting have been issues in India,… Read More

February 6, 2019 @ 2:21 am By Cali Haan  |  

Three large banks in Japan, players in the country’s “crowded” payments market, have decided to abandon a cooperative pilot undertaken in 2017 to create a peer-to-peer remittance network, Nikkei Asian Review (NAR) reports. The three banks- Mizuho Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group– will… Read More

February 5, 2019 @ 9:35 am By Erin Hobey  |  

INVAO, the blockchain asset pool for investors, has been selected as the exclusive international partner for blockchain investments by Dubai’s SEED Group, an association of diversified companies owned by The Private Office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum. “This [landmark partnership]represents a seal of… Read More

February 5, 2019 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

India’s “first” native blockchain protocol, Eleven01, has launched their testnet. According to Eleven01, their platform is geared toward emerging markets looking to implement blockchain tech into mainstream industries including, retail, agriculture, banking, healthcare, finance, and more. Ausaf Ahmad, CEO of Eleven01, was formerly at Microsoft… Read More

February 4, 2019 @ 3:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) will announce Q4 fiscal 2019 financial results and Q1 fiscal 2020 guidance on its earnings call scheduled for February 14th. The Valentines Day event has removed some of the surprise as Nvidia revealed reduced guidance last week. “Q4 was an extraordinary, unusually turbulent, and… Read More

February 2, 2019 @ 10:09 am By Xu Gao  |  

Xiongan: the New Fintech Hub According to a guideline jointly issued by the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, Xiongan New Area is set to become a new center for China’s financial innovation. The guidelines said that Xiongan will “take the… Read More

February 1, 2019 @ 9:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hang Seng Bank (Hang Seng) and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) announced on Thursday they have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of fintech solutions for the banking sector in Hong Kong. The duo reported that under the partnership they… Read More

February 1, 2019 @ 3:52 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bitfury, one of the world’s largest cryptomining  and “blockchain-services” firms has announced it is partnering with the Korea-based company Commons Foundation, “to open and operate Bitcoin transaction processing centers in Paraguay as part of the foundation’s “Golden Goose” initiative to expand cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation… Read More