Tagged: china

October 24, 2020 @ 3:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chinese Fintech firm Lufax is reportedly planning to secure $2.36 billion through its US initial public offering (IPO). Lufax was once a top peer to peer lending platform but has since shifted into other areas of Fintech as well as online lending. Lufax’s management noted… Read More

October 22, 2020 @ 9:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ant Group, which was previously known as Ant Financial, the world’s most valuable Fintech firm and a subsidiary of the Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA), has reportedly received approval from China’s top securities regulator for the registration of its Shanghai offering. As reported by Reuters, the… Read More

October 19, 2020 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ant Group, which was previously known as Ant Financial, the world’s most valuable Fintech firm and subsidiary of the Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA), has reportedly received approval from Chinese regulatory authorities for the Hong Kong leg of its planned initial public offering (IPO). The Ant… Read More

October 17, 2020 @ 5:00 pm By Xu Gao  |  

Insurtech Platform Nanyan Information Technology Secures 250-million-yuan Series C Round of Financing On October 14th, Chinese Insurtech platform Nanyan Information Technology (hereinafter referred to as “Nanyan”) announced that it had secured 250 million yuan in a Series C round of financing. The investment was led… Read More

October 17, 2020 @ 1:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A Bank of Japan official recently noted that there’s no single virtual currency that will completely dominate global transactions, but only if reserve banks focus on enhancing their existing settlement systems. China, which has been leading the charge when it comes to implementing a national… Read More

October 16, 2020 @ 12:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

OKEx, a top 20 crypto exchange, is under investigation by Chinese authorities according to a report. OKEx provides both spot and crypto derivatives trading. It has been widely reported that the price of Bitcoin tanked as word leaked out and OKEx suspended all withdrawals. The… Read More

October 15, 2020 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IRISnet, which aims to serve as an interchain service hub for next-generation distributed applications, is planning to integrate key services as a public chain service portal of China’s Blockchain Service Network. The integration of these services should offer a “low-threshold and convenient-access” development environment for… Read More

October 12, 2020 @ 11:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bianjie and the Wuhan Run He De Kang (RHDK) have partnered to implement a blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) enabled Epidemic Early Warning System, in order to help in the fight against Covid-19. As mentioned in the announcement, Wuhan RHDK is a healthcare-focused, Big… Read More

October 12, 2020 @ 9:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The AMTD Group, a financial services company rooted in Hong Kong and based in the Greater Bay Area with a global focus, has revealed that the Weihai City Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. (based in Weihai, Shandong Province – marine economy demonstration zones of China) was… Read More

October 11, 2020 @ 3:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

VeChain, the developer of blockchain-based solutions for enhancing supply chain management processes (among other use cases), has published its Financial Executive Report. VeChain says that it regularly releases its comprehensive financial report to promote greater “transparency, openness, and fairness.” The VeChain team noted that its… Read More

October 11, 2020 @ 12:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IRISnet, which aims to serve as an interchain service hub for next-generation distributed applications, has published its monthly report – which goes over the platform’s main community and technical updates. Daniela Pavin from IRISnet notes that in September 2020, Harriet Cao, the co-founder at IRISnet,… Read More

October 7, 2020 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Qtum (QTUM), a platform for creating decentralized applications that aims to leverage certain technical aspects related to the security of the Bitcoin (BTC) network while providing smart contract functionality (somewhat similar to Ethereum), have confirmed that the month of September 2020 continued… Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Joel Edgerton, COO at bitFlyer, a crypto-asset exchange that’s licensed to operate in Japan, the United States, and Europe, recently shared his views about the court case and charges brought against the Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), a leading digital asset derivatives exchange. Edgerton also shared… Read More

October 5, 2020 @ 10:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group’s (NYSE:BABA) cloud services business may now be on track to generate profits as it continues to receive support from China’s evolving digital economy. Last year, Alibaba Cloud had been ranked as the third-largest infrastructure-as-a-service provider, which is right behind Amazon… Read More

September 28, 2020 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OneConnect Financial Technology Co., Ltd. (NYSE: OCFT), an established technology-as-a-service platform for financial institutions, has won the Platinum Award for Digital Banking at the IFTA FinTech Achievement Awards 2019, “in recognition for the innovation of its OneConnect Bank Solution.” Daniel Ling, GM at OneConnect’s Hong… Read More

September 26, 2020 @ 6:17 pm By Xu Gao  |  

PBC Releases Implementation Measures of the People’s Bank of China for the Protection of Financial Consumer Rights In order to accelerate the building of a full-fledged mechanism for the protection of financial consumers’ rights and interests and protect the long-term and fundamental rights of financial… Read More

September 20, 2020 @ 7:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Refinitiv, one of the largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, has revealed that China CITIC Bank International will be using the Refinitiv Electronic Trading platform to streamline its foreign exchange (FX) trading and distribution workflow. Banks and other financial service providers are looking… Read More

September 19, 2020 @ 2:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Harriet Cao, co-founder at the IRIS Foundation, an organization that supports the ongoing development of IRISnet, a platform that serves as an interchain service hub for next-generation distributed applications, says that China’s Blockchain Service Network (BSN) is a “relevant step” forward when it comes adopting… Read More

September 19, 2020 @ 12:59 pm By Xu Gao  |  

Cloud Computing PaaS Startup BoCloud Completes Series D Round of financing On September 17th, cloud computing PaaS [platform as a service] and multi-cloud management startup BoCloud announced the completion of its series D round of financing. The investment was provided by Guoxin Venture Capital, Xinhuan… Read More

September 17, 2020 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ping An Bank recently became the first Chinese financial institution to be named the world’s “best” digital bank at the Euromoney Awards. As mentioned in a release, Ping An Bank, which is a subsidiary of the Ping An Insurance Company of China, was named the… Read More