The combined market cap of the top 50 companies in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region surged to $8.1 trillion in 2024, reflecting a “20.6% year-on-year increase.” This, according to a report from GlobalData. Tech firms reportedly led the charge, with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and… Read More
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A total of 7,966 deals (mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity and venture financing deals) were announced in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region during January-July 2024, which was a decline of 9.9% compared to the 8,840 deals announced during the same period in previous year, according… Read More
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Gemini is pleased to announce their expansion plans in APAC as Gemini’s leadership team recently visited the region on their global odyssey “to propel the promise of crypto.” Over the next 12 months, they plan “to increase their headcount to 100+ in Singapore.” Gemini’s APAC… Read More
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Cross-border payments Fintech Wise (LSE:WISE) intends to hire around 150 professionals for its Singapore business offices in 2022. Wise‘s management noted that this includes key roles focused on engineering, product development, design, analytics, compliance, payments and various other operations in order to support ongoing product… Read More
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Deutsche Bank (ETR: DBK) announced that it has completed “its first set of live trades on its electronic foreign exchange (e-FX) hub, based in SG1.” The e-FX hub, which was created with assistance from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), allows Deutsche Bank’s customers to… Read More
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METACO, the provider of security-critical software and infrastructure to the digital asset ecosystem, reveals that it has established its Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore, “with a strong team managed by newly appointed Managing Director APAC, Patrick Enjalbal.” As mentioned in a release shared with Crowdfund… Read More
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NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), the global division of the National Payment Corporation of India, has teamed up with Liquid Group Pte. Ltd., a cross border payments provider, in order to support UPI QR-enabled payments acceptance in 10 different markets across North Asia and Southeast… Read More
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Biometrics firm, Fingerprint Cards AB, and Seshaasai, an established smart card manufacturer in India with a strong APAC presence, have entered into an agreement “to develop, launch, market, and sell” contactless biometric payment cards in India and the wider APAC region, according to a release…. Read More
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Indonesia-based Brankas, an Open Banking services provider, recently revealed that it has managed to exceed 10 million monthly API calls with more than 80 network partners. The Brankas platform currently operates in over six different countries and has teamed up with over 30 financial institutions… Read More
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Singapore-based DBS Bank Ltd (SGX:D05), a multinational banking and financial services corporation with over $330 billion in assets, revealed on Monday (May 31, 2021) that it has priced a SGD 15 million (appr. $11.35 million) digital bond, which marks DBS Digital Exchange’s (DDEx) first security… Read More
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Payments giant Visa (NYSE:V) has announced that it has chosen five high-potential startups to participate in its very first Accelerator Program for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. During the next 4-6 months, the startups will be focused on developing various commercial initiatives such as new… Read More
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Snowdrop Solutions Ltd. has teamed up with digital payments giant Visa in order to offer innovative location-enriched services to banking institutions and other financial services providers based in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Through the partnership, both companies aim to allow millions of consumers to… Read More
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Investments in private Fintech firms based in the Asia-Pacific increased by 9.1% to $1.4 billion during Q2 2020, when compared to Q1 2020, according to a report from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The Q2 APAC Fintech Funding Report (released on August 25, 2020) notes that… Read More
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Big Four auditing firm Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) reports that the majority of global digital asset fundraising and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals last year took place outside of the United States for the very first time. As noted in PwC’s report (released on April 6, 2020),… Read More
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