Asia

May 3, 2016 @ 11:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fincera (OTCQB: AUTCF), formerly a commercial vehicle leasing company that has now migrated into internet finance for SMEs in China, reported full year results for 2015.  According to the company release, the internet finance based portion of the company (launched in 2014) continues to grow rapidly…. Read More

May 3, 2016 @ 11:51 am By Erin Hobey  |  

MobiKwik, a Gurgaon, India based mobile wallet company, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding led by Japanese GMO Payment Gateway and Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company MediaTek, according to a company press release. The round was part of Series C round raised last month, which included participation from its existing investors… Read More

May 2, 2016 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

According to a report by CCTV (video below), China registered 4.4 million new businesses during 2015. That means about 12,000 SMEs are launched every single day.  The same report states that 30 trillion yuan or USD $5 trillion went into these young firms. These are mainly… Read More

May 2, 2016 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Embedded below is the consultation paper crafted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in anticipation of creating a regulatory regime for peer to peer lending.  The document sets out to review the various legal frameworks in place around the world for peer to peer… Read More

May 1, 2016 @ 9:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

T2P, creators of the e-Wallet App DeepPocket, has received $1.1 million in funding led by Dave McClure’s 500 startups. The funding round also saw participation from Bechnachinda Holding.  T2P is based in Thailand and the additional capital will be leveraged to expand their services beyond… Read More

April 29, 2016 @ 5:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

China’s internet finance industry continues to grow while encountering ongoing challenges as fraud remains prevalent in the loosely regulated sector of the finance industry. Dominated by peer to peer lending (the largest in the world), as of March over 3900 platforms were counted by WDZJ (other… Read More

April 28, 2016 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Impact Guru, a “full stack crowdfunding solution”, has received seed funding in the amount of USD $500,000 from RB Investments and Fundnel – an Asian investment crowdfunding platform. Simultaneously, Impact Guru and Fundnel have formed a strategic partnership combining impact / rewards and investment-based crowdfunding…. Read More

April 27, 2016 @ 12:20 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Income tax returns e-filing website ClearTax has secured an angel investment of $1.3 million from top Silicon Valley angels. ClearTax was founded in 2011 by the father-son team of Raja Ram Gupta and Archit Gupta, Srivatsan Chari and Ankit Solanki, ClearTax is the fourth Indian start-up  funded… Read More

April 26, 2016 @ 11:38 am By Erin Hobey  |  

According to Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor R Gandhi, approval of new types of NBFCs (non-banking finance companies) will continue.  Detailed information has not yet been released from the bank, but Gandhi commented while inaugurating the ASSOCHAM summit discussing NBFCs: The Changing Landscape’ reported Mumbai’s Deccan Herald:… Read More

April 26, 2016 @ 11:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Peer-to-peer lender, China Rapid Finance, announced on Tuesday it has appointed Huaqiao (Joe) Zhang an independent non-executive director to its board. Previously, Zhang had served as an advisor to the website since August 2013. According to the lender, Zhang brings industry knowledge and experience after having spent more than… Read More

April 26, 2016 @ 12:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Shariah-compliant crowdfunding platform Ethis hopes to raise up to S$ 1 million from executives participating in the Global Islamic Finance Forum (GIFF) being held in Kuala Lumpur May 10-12, 2016. EthisCrowd.com claims the title of the world’s first real estate Islamic crowdfunding platform.  Based in… Read More

April 25, 2016 @ 3:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

CoAssets (NSX:CAX), launched as a real estate crowdfunding platform in Singapore, has successfully raised capital online for an Australian SME, according to a report in the Australian Financial Review. In July of 2015, CoAssets became the first Southeast Asian investment platform to publicly trade shares… Read More

April 25, 2016 @ 10:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Yirendai Ltd. (NYSE: YRD), an online consumer finance marketplace in China, announced on Monday the completion of issuance of RMB 250 million asset-backed securities (“ABS”). Last month,  Yirendai announced this week it will be considered as the first online consumer finance marketplace in China facilitating consumer loan products with the… Read More

April 22, 2016 @ 3:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, real estate crowdfunding platform, Wealth Migrate, announced that it was officially opening its new Shanghai office, which will be located in the Pudong Pilot Free Trade Zone district.  Wealth Migrate China CEO, Aling Gong, declared that the Shanghai opening is considered a milestone for the crowdfunding movement… Read More

April 20, 2016 @ 11:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, China Rapid Finance Limited announced that an investment by global private equity firm Broadline Capital in the company was honored as “Technology Deal of the Year” at the 2016 International Financial Forum’s 8th Annual International M&A Awards. This event recognizes excellence in deal-making and celebrate the… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 11:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

The largest bank in South East Asia, DBS, has signed an agreement with two peer to peer lending platforms to refer small business loans the bank turns away.  MoolahSense and Funding Societies will now become a service provider for the far larger bank. Simultaneously, both… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 11:50 am By Erin Hobey  |  

China’s Ping An group has its eye on becoming the fasting lending platform in China, planning to incorporate face recognition technology into its wealth management and other services which would require only six minutes to complete a loan application, according to a statement. The inhouse-developed technology… Read More

April 12, 2016 @ 11:16 am By Erin Hobey  |  

LenDen Club, an Indian online peer-to-peer lending platform, has raised undisclosed seed round of funding through Venture Catalyst, India’s first seed investment and innovation platform. The round saw participation from Anirudh Damani, Daud Ali, Narendra Karnavat, Vikas Kapoor, Vikram Lakhotia, Krishna Jhunjhunwaala and Jayesh Shah, according to a… Read More

April 11, 2016 @ 2:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, organizers of the online lending conference, LendIt, announced the launch of LendIt China 2016, its inaugural Chinese conference, which will take place in Shanghai on July 17-18, 2016. According to LendIt, the event will bring together the marketplace lending platforms from all over the world… Read More

April 11, 2016 @ 12:24 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Standard Chartered and SuperCharger announced the successful completion of Hong Kong’s first home-grown Financial Technology accelerator programme.  The programme was launched in October 2015 to find top FinTech start-ups to participate in a 12-week structured curriculum which aims to help them grow in Asia. “Standard… Read More