Asia

February 19, 2020 @ 8:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ASEAN Exchanges, a group which consists of six major exchanges based in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, have reportedly chosen to integrate Refinitiv’s digital solutions onto their online platform. The solution offers critical data and insights to institutional and retail clients, and assists… Read More

February 18, 2020 @ 11:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Credify, a Singapore based software development company offering Universal Identity and Trust System solutions to e-commerce and financial services companies, announced on Tuesday it raised $1 million through its latest seed investment round, which was led by venture capital funds BEENEXT and DEEPCORE. Founded in… Read More

February 18, 2020 @ 8:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Malta-based digital asset exchange Binance’s Singapore division has applied for a new payments license under the city-state’s new Payment Services Act, which became effective on January 28, 2020. Changpeng Zhao, CEO at Binance, the world’s largest crypto-asset exchange in terms of adjusted trading volume, confirmed:… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SoftBank, a Japan-based global conglomerate holding firm with over $283 billion in assets, will reportedly be adding another $1 billion this year to its $5 billion Latin America Fund, which was launched last year. The Tokyo-headquartered company added $1.6 billion to the fund in 2019…. Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Indonesia-based PT Pegadaian, a state-owned pawnshop, is reportedly planning to work with several Fintech firms in order to create digital financing solutions, which will help the pawnshop expand its business operations. PT Pegadaian’s management realizes the potential of the growing digital finance ecosystem and intends… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 10:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India’s financial technology sector is expanding rapidly, which has led to SEBI, the nation’s financial market regulator, to launch a regulatory sandbox. The sandbox program will assist local Fintech firms with testing out new products and services with a small group of users before introducing… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 4:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

“The route to hell is paved with goodwill” starts the missive posted by FCoin (a crypto exchange) creator Zhang Jian who then goes on to reveal that “internal problems and technical difficulties” may mean a loss of between 7000 and 13,000 Bitcoin – or up… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ant Financial, an affiliated company of the Chinese Alibaba Group, is reportedly running the first international blockchain-powered payment service in Pakistan. This is a major milestone in the Asian nation’s journey to enable greater financial inclusion. Ant Financial is notably the world’s highest-valued Fintech firm,… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

William Russell, the Lord Mayor of the city of London, noted recently that the UK is planning to support Qatar in becoming a leading financial technology (Fintech) hub in the Middle East. Russell praised the new legislation and regulations being developed by the Qatari government… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dubai Multi Commodities Center (DMCC), an organization formed in 2002 by Dubai’s government to offer physical, market and financial infrastructure needed to establish a hub for global commodities trade, has committed to strategic membership agreement with Al Khaleej Sugar and Universa Blockchain.  According to the… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 7:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Approximately 80% of all Chinese banks will acquire and integrate Fintech solutions from the cloud market, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), a leading multinational market intelligence company.  China’s Fintech sector is known for quickly adopting a broad range of information technologies including cloud computing,… Read More

February 16, 2020 @ 6:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong-headquartered Blue Cross, a major insurance services provider, is set to introduce its Travel Smart MultiTrip Insurance Package, which will allow clients to customize their travel insurance plans. The company has also introduced the Flight Delay Cash Allowance Extension, which reportedly comes with an… Read More

February 16, 2020 @ 5:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ila, a Bahrain-based digital, mobile-only banking entity, has confirmed that it has appointed Mohamed Al Maraj as the company’s new chief executive. Established in November 2019 as a wholly-owned retail subsidiary of Bank ABC (the Arab Banking Corporation), a global bank with headquarters in the… Read More

February 16, 2020 @ 10:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

India-based CoinDCX, a leading digital asset exchange and liquidity aggregator, recently confirmed that it has teamed up with major multinational crypto-asset trading platform for futures and derivatives, OKEx.  As noted in a press release shared with Crowdfund Insider: “With this partnership, OKEx will gain access… Read More

February 15, 2020 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Leading US-based crypto venture capital funds are investing in a relatively small Asian digital asset firm that claims that it has facilitated the trade of $100 billion in crypto-assets since 2018.  Paradigm, Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Polychain Capital, and Blockchain.com have collectively invested… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 1:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Japan-based crypto tech platform Bitcoin.com announced on Thursday the launch of Mint, a free token creation platform. According to Bitcoin.com, Mint was created to Mint to “drive blockchain adoption as it fuels the development of a vast new token ecosystem.” “Mint supports a specific type of… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 9:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of the Suterusu protocol are presently working on a scalable, privacy-preserving second layer solution for secure digital asset management. Any crypto-asset, including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), may soon be used to conduct fully anonymous transactions using the Suterusu protocol. Suterusu’s technology, ZK-ConSNARK,… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 9:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digix, the developer of the first asset-backed digital gold token, recently upgraded its online marketplace and website. The company’s new marketplace and digital platform aim to simplify the process of buying and managing Digix’s native DGX token. The token was launched to meet the increasing… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 2:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bengalaru-based Innoviti, a payment technology developer, has confirmed that it’s updating its “self-healing” technology, which is supported by dual-SIM cards across retail point-of-sales (PoS) terminals in India.  Innoviti’s latest technology has been developed to de-risk the processing of payments made at PoS terminals that are… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 1:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SBM Bank India recently confirmed that it has teamed up with Karbon in order to introduce the Karbon Card, which is notably one of the nation’s first corporate credit card designed specifically for startups or early-stage firms. All corporate credit cards issued will come with… Read More