Tagged: china

July 8, 2018 @ 4:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sun Guofeng, Director of the Peoples Bank of China Research Institute, says that more Fintech regulation is on its way. The comments were reported by ECNS as Guofeng spoke at the Bund Summit in Shanghai. Guofeng said; “Building regulatory regime at local levels will become… Read More

July 7, 2018 @ 7:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

A report in ECNS indicates that the Chinese peer to peer lending industry is enduring a bit of a retrenchment. China is home to the largest P2P industry in the world – an accomplishment that was aided by the fact that at the beginning, few… Read More

July 7, 2018 @ 1:38 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Recent floods in China’s central Sichuan province have destroyed thousands of cryptocurrency “mining” machines (dedicated computers) and may have slowed processing power on the Bitcoin network, Golden Finance reports. Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong and Jilin provinces were also badly affected by prodigious rains, says ECNS News,… Read More

July 5, 2018 @ 3:33 am By Cali Haan  |  

Microsoft Taiwan held a joint press conference with Digital China and HighCool companies at Le Meridien Hotel in Taipei June 28th to announce a “tripartite blockchain strategy cooperation” agreement has been struck between the three firms to create a vast, blockchain-moderated public-private computing cloud. Also… Read More

July 3, 2018 @ 4:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

In recent years most Fintech Hub reports have pegged the UK, and more specifically London, at the top of the list when it comes to ranking Fintech centers of excellence. The UK has been widely lauded due to various characteristics but always included in these… Read More

June 29, 2018 @ 3:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

CreditEase Wealth Management announced on Friday it won “Best Wealth Management Firm of the Year” and “Best Wealth Manager for Fund of Funds” at the Asiamoney Annual Awards. Last year, Asiamoney reportedly began selecting nonbank wealth management institutions for their “Excellence in Chinese Wealth Management” award and… Read More

June 25, 2018 @ 3:04 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Ant Financial, a payments leg that services Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba, is trialing a blockchain-based remittance channel connecting Hong Kong to the Philippines, Coindesk reports. Ant Financial made the announcement today in Hong Kong. According to a roughly-translated press release, the new system will transmit… Read More

June 20, 2018 @ 12:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese fintech Pintec Technology Holdings Limited (PINTEC) announced on Wednesday it has launched installment financing on its e-commerce platforms. This news comes just a couple of weeks after PINTEC secured $103 million through its latest financing round, which as led by Mandra Capital and SINA Corp…. Read More

June 20, 2018 @ 8:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hexindai (NASDAQ:HX), a China-based peer to peer lender, announced on Tuesday it was officially accepted as a member of the Nandu Finance Digital Union on June 11th. The lending platform reported that the Union, which was launched in April 2018 by the Nanfang Metropolis Daily and the Nandu Finance… Read More

June 19, 2018 @ 8:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese fintech Yirendai announced on Tuesday global investment banking group Goldman Sachs has provided it with RMB 324 million of funding for a term of three years. While sharing details about the investment,  Dennis Cong, Chief Financial Officer of Yirendai, stated: “We are very excited to see the… Read More

June 18, 2018 @ 3:17 pm By Cali Haan  |  

In an atmospheric piece filed 2700km from Shanghai and 3000 miles above sea level, Nikkei Asian Review reporter Yusho Cho describes a 7000 computer-strong mining operation quietly thrumming out Bitcoins in the remote western plateau region of Qinghai. Local authorities, says Cho, are fine with… Read More

June 16, 2018 @ 11:08 am By Xu Gao  |  

Tiger Brokers and Nasdaq Reach Strategic Cooperation on US Stock Data Solutions On June 14th, Tiger Brokers and Nasdaq announced a strategic cooperation to jointly provide Chinese Fintech platforms access to the US stock market data. According to the agreement, Tiger Brokers will become the… Read More

June 11, 2018 @ 7:48 am By JD Alois  |  

The Decentralized Accessible Content Chain (DACC) project is reporting that it has received solid backing from both institutional and individual investors for its private token sale, which was said to be oversubscribed within a matter of hours. The private sale was scheduled to run from… Read More

June 11, 2018 @ 7:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Yirendai Ltd. (NYSE: YRD), a fintech company that’s based in China, announced on Monday its board of directors has approved a share repurchase program whereby Yirendai is authorized to repurchase its ordinary shares in the form of American depositary shares with an initial aggregate value of up to $20 million. While sharing more details about the… Read More

June 9, 2018 @ 8:07 am By Xu Gao  |  

NIFA Releases China’s First National Fintech Identity Verification Platform Early this week, the National Internet Finance Association of China (NIFA) released China’s first Fintech identity verification platform. This was a response to the requirements of various Fintech industry practitioners and regulatory authorities. In the future,… Read More

June 8, 2018 @ 8:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese fintech and Alibaba-affiliated Ant Financial Service Group announced on Friday it secured approximately $14 billion through its Series C Equity Funding round, which includes an RMB tranche raised by the company from domestic investors and a USD tranche raised by Ant international Co., Limited, a wholly… Read More

June 5, 2018 @ 3:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Distributed Credit Chain (DCC) and Plug and Play China announced that DCC has joined the Plug and Play China’s “ecosystem” to drive the growth and development of the global fintech and blockchain industry. According to the duo, Plug and Play China has helped over… Read More

June 5, 2018 @ 8:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese fintech Pintec Technology Holdings Limited (PINTEC) announced on Tuesday it has secured $103 million through a financing investment round, which was led by Mandra Capital and SINA Corp. with participation from STI Financial Group, Shunwei Capital Partners, and ZHONG Capital Holding Group. The company… Read More

June 2, 2018 @ 11:52 am By Xu Gao  |  

International Tuition Payment Platform Easy Transfer Receives Tens of Million Yuan in Series A Financing This week, Easy Transfer announced that it has won tens of millions yuan in Series A financing, which was led by Zhen Fund and followed by IDG Capital. It is… Read More

June 2, 2018 @ 11:17 am By Cali Haan  |  

In a recent conversation with Brazilian nationals, including a bank manager and an accountant, I was told that Bitcoin is “not popular” in Brazil. That may be about to change. Brazilian site Portal do Bitcoin have reported that representatives from the third largest cryptocurrency exchange… Read More