Tagged: apac

May 1, 2023 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Experian – which claims to be one of the world’s leading global information services companies – has launched Aidrian, a new cloud-based fraud solution “powered by adaptive Machine Learning, which enables businesses to prevent fraud without impacting the customer experience.” Experian’s latest research “shows fraud… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 1:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tokio Marine Insurans (Malaysia) Berhad, an insurance company in Malaysia, has partnered with KirimMan, a one-stop logistic solution, and Finology, an Asia-Pacific fintech company that specialises in enabling embedded finance, “to offer affordable insurance products for gig economy workers, with a focus on delivery riders.”… Read More

April 20, 2023 @ 10:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of “choice” for major businesses, launches its Unified Commerce solution in Malaysia to help businesses flexibly meet ever-evolving consumer expectations. Powered by Adyen’s single platform, Unified Commerce gives businesses end-to-end control of transactions across sales channels (online,… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 10:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, the global payments infrastructure for the on-demand economy, announced the appointment of Anupam Pahuja to EVP and General Manager of Asia Pacific, MENA. Pahuja will “build on Nium’s success in Southeast Asia, where the fintech unicorn was founded, and will quickly expand Nium’s presence… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 11:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Linedata (Euronext Paris: LIN), a global provider of credit and asset management technology, data and services, announced the opening of its new office in Singapore, “strengthening its presence in the APAC region following a strong increase in businesses’ needs.” Leaning on its large portfolio of… Read More

March 26, 2023 @ 1:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, the global payments solutions provider, and Mastercard announced that they will make Mastercard Send available to more Checkout.com customers in the Asia Pacific region, starting in Australia and Hong Kong SAR later this year. The Send service – which “powers real-time payments1 for consumers, gig… Read More

March 15, 2023 @ 7:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wirex, a crypto payments platform, has partnered with card issuer, Novatti, to directly issue cards to Australians. The announcement has the potential “to allow over 20 million people to utilize their innovative multicurrency card every day.” Wirex claims that it “developed the world’s first crypto-enabled… Read More

March 7, 2023 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AsiaPay, a provider of digital payment solutions in the Asia Pacific, has launched Visa Instalments in Hong Kong and will further extend to Southeast Asia to provide merchants more flexible payment options and enhance the purchase experience of consumers. Leading a new trend in credit… Read More

February 26, 2023 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ava Labs announced it has entered into a partnership with Tencent Cloud to support projects and developers across the Avalanche ecosystem. In addition to providing developers with rapid node deployment, both parties will also “explore Avalanche Subnets for enterprises to help accelerate adoption of Web3… Read More

February 23, 2023 @ 9:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coincover, the digital asset protection company, announces a new partnership with Cobo, which claims to be the largest digital asset custodian and blockchain infrastructure provider in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. This news comes shortly after Coincover’s recent successful $30 million funding round. Cobo explains… Read More

January 8, 2023 @ 6:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V), which claims to be a world leader in digital payments, is announcing an open call for startups across the APAC region in order to apply for the Visa Accelerator Program 2023 and applications will close on January 10, 2022. Currently in its… Read More

January 3, 2023 @ 3:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

2022 has been a year of “success” and excitement, the team at Poloniex claims. As a proponent of blockchain technology, Poloniex says that it understands very well that education and adoption “are the key to fostering the development of Web3.” Since its establishment in 2014,… Read More

January 1, 2023 @ 9:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Darwinbox, which claims to be one of the fastest-growing HR technology unicorns, announced the appointment of Panuwat Benrohman (Ben) as the Managing Director and Country Head for Thailand. Panuwat (Ben) is the latest addition to Darwinbox’s growing Regional Leadership team and will be “at the… Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deal activity (mergers & acquisitions [M&A], private equity, and venture financing deals) in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region “continues to bear the brunt of the ongoing global geopolitical issues and volatile market conditions on the back of rise in the number of COVID-19 cases in some… Read More

December 6, 2022 @ 11:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global fintech platform Airwallex is pleased to announce that Kai Wu has been jointly appointed “as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Asia-Pacific General Manager (APAC GM).” Kai has “held a number of senior positions at Airwallex for close to five years, including as… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MUFG Bank (NYSE:MUFG) claims it is the “first” Japanese bank to commit to using CLSNet, CLS’s bilateral payment netting calculation service “for over 120 currencies.” MUFG Bank will “join the expanding CLSNet community of global and regional banks, which includes eight of the top ten… Read More

December 2, 2022 @ 9:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SCB 10X, the venture investment arm of SCBX group, building and incubating startups in the Web3 and blockchain industry, announced the launch of SCB 10X DISTRICTX, a physical space in the middle of Bangkok CBD “to build & foster world-class communities in Blockchain and Web3.”… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 7:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SEBA Bank AG, which claims to be a leading crypto bank in Switzerland having a suite of fully regulated banking services, officially opened its Hong Kong office for its subsidiary, SEBA (Hong Kong) Limited (SEBA Hong Kong). SEBA Bank says that it has “a strong… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 9:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LMAX Group, the operator of institutional exchanges for trading FX and digital assets, is expanding its global technology infrastructure in Asia Pacific “following the launch of a matching engine in the Equinix IBX Data Centre in Singapore (SG1).” SG1, which went live earlier this year,… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Credisense, a no-code origination, workflow and credit decisioning platform, has partnered with cloud-native SaaS banking and financial services platform Mambu, “to accelerate the modernization of lending systems in the Asia Pacific market.” The partnership will “provide lenders of all sizes with a flexible end-to-end lending… Read More