Asia

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

April 11, 2016 @ 10:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Singapore-based crowdfunding platform, FundedHere, recently announced that it has secured $1.29 million from three angel investors. Last month  , FundedHere stated that it was the first licensed equity and debt crowdfunding platform in Singapore as it has received a Capital Markets Services (CMS) license to operate… Read More

April 10, 2016 @ 2:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

In the first bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2016-17 Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan,  Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, stated that a conceptual document will be posted on their website by the end of the month.  According to the statement from last week; Peer to Peer… Read More

April 8, 2016 @ 7:57 am By JD Alois  |  

At the end of March, Crowdfund Insider reported the creation of the Islamic Crowdfunding Alliance. In the ensuing days in advance of the scheduled press conference the founders have repositioned their group as the Islamic Fintech Alliance (IFT Alliance). The creators of the new Alliance… Read More

April 5, 2016 @ 2:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

  A Chinese delegation from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province in China described as the “capital of crowdfunding” in the country, is visiting the City of Liverpool to explore potential areas of collaboration such as tourism, big data and crowdfunding.  The 24 delegates from… Read More

April 3, 2016 @ 3:11 pm By Weiyangx  |  

  A decade ago, bank salespersons were seen at almost every street corner in Taipei. Apart from credit cards, they also offered unsecured micro-loans to ordinary people. As long as you didn’t have a criminal record and could provide your basic information such as ID… Read More

April 1, 2016 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Like much of the rest of the world, Singapore is embracing Fintech and looking to give financial innovation a boost by launching the SG-Innovate Fintech hub.  Fintech in Singapore received a small but important mention in the most recent governmental budget stating; “To give these… Read More

March 30, 2016 @ 3:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Singapore-based bullion retailer, Silver Bullion Pte Ltd., announced the launch of its 1-month bullion secured peer-to-peer(P2P) loans. Silver Bullion previously offered loan durations of 6 months, 12 months and 24 months secured by physical gold and silver collateral stored in its vault, The Safe… Read More

March 29, 2016 @ 12:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Peer-to-peer lender, China Rapid Finance, announced on Tuesday it has become a sponsor and founding member of the National Internet Finance Association of China (NIFA). According to the company, the NIFA was founded with the approval of China’s State Council. It has been led by the People’s Bank of China,… Read More

March 29, 2016 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Late last month the National Internet Finance Association of China (NIFA) was launched during a ceremony in Shanghai. CreditEase, the first (and largest) peer to peer lender in the country, was elected as an Executive Director to the new entity. Former People’s Bank of China Deputy… Read More

March 28, 2016 @ 10:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

While the rest of the developed world, and some of the developing world, is rushing to embrace the Fintech revolution Japan is mired in the financial past.  Japan possesses the worlds 3rd largest economy as measured by nominal GDP yet they have done little when… Read More