ING is out to prove that startups aren't the only ones that can advance blockchain cryptography.Rather than waiting on the sidelines for...

The founder of one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges is being sued by a big-name venture capital firm for allegedly...

Justin Schmidt, former quant trader at Seven Eight Capital and WorldQuant, will help GS client's gain exposure to cryptoassets....

The development of consumer lending in China has hit a speed bump as the P2P industry falls foul of a regulatory clampdown on borrowing...

One of Britain’s largest banks, the giant £32bn Royal Bank of Scotland, is feverishly building a new mobile-only bank, which Forbes can...

London-based RegTech company ClauseMatch has landed $5m (£3.58m) in a Series A round led by Index Ventures.

ClauseMatch

provides...

LONDON (Reuters) - Most business on the Lloyd’s of London insurance market will be negotiated electronically by the end of next year, its...

The robo advisory fund business incorporates innovative technologies into discretionary portfolio management services. It allows...

IDC APAC research manager Ashutosh Bisht calls big data a game changer for enterprises and governments in the region. However he warned...

Vietnam’s fintech industry

With its young demographic, rise in consumers spending, and growing smartphone and internet penetration,...

According to a report by Kroll and Mergermarket titled ‘Staying ahead of change: Investing in disruptive tech in India and Southeast...

This is as fintech lowers costs significantly, and can thus bring more people into the financial system.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB)...

In order to be eligible for a patent, an application must be first filed in Singapore and contain 20 or fewer claims. The request for the...

That makes last quarter the second most active 12-week period over the past two years. In Q2 2017, US$2.7 billion was invested the...

The new Series C round was led by Hong Kong based DST Global alongside a portfolio of new and existing investors including Index Ventures...

The 23.96 year old Russian / Canadian coder gets interviewed over lunch by the FT on the highs and lows of being at the helm of one of...

UK Mortgage market continues to be transformed and shaken up by Trussle!

Our Fund II investment, Squirro publishes interesting research re the impact of AI on Banking!

Southeast Asian fintech firm HelloGold has secured Series A funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firm 500 Startups. The funding...

Los Angeles based micro lender for emerging markets has raised $50m of Series C financing and $15m of debt capital, led by Revolution...

Goldman acquires Clarity Money, Adam Dell’s personal-finance and budgeting app. Its founder becomes a partner at the firm and GS goes in...

Clear space for disruoption by blockchain! San Francisco based startup building technology to tokenize ownership of illiquid assets has...

Continues strong momentum for Adyen, with a record revenue year and beating paypal with eBay! The Netherlands has with Adyen, Global...

Last week the sixth annual LendIt USA conference took place in San Francisco. Officially known as LendIt Fintech USA 2018 this event was,...

The firm has called on other central banks around the world to follow the move by the Bank of England.TransferWise has become the first...

The start-up broker claimed that Brolly’s is the first insurance app where it’s possible to switch and purchase insurance directly...

Nice slide deck on the auto insurance outlook

Goldman Sachs has bought personal-finance app Clarity Money, acquiring a mobile storefront for its growing consumer bank.

The...

Barclays Bank has launched a new venture unit to invest in and partner with tech companies in a drive to find new opportunities for...

Amazon PrimeBloomberg reported.

has reached a milestone number of subscribers: CEO Jeff Bezos says the service now has more...

Google’s redesign of Google Pay, its digital payment service, appears to be paying off — the company passed the 100 million mark in terms...

Verifone Systems has agreed to a $3.4 billion deal – accounting for both cash and debt – that will take the firm private, Reuters reported

JPMorgan has joined a Series A funding round in AccessFintech, a post-trade startup created to help buyside and sell-side firms manage...

Ripple has invested $25 million worth of its XRP token in Blockchain Capital's Parallel IV venture fund, the startup announced on Wednesday.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says the next battle for technology companies will be fought in Indonesia, because of the Asian country’s huge...

The number of fintech companies in Vietnam will continue to rise sharply in the near future, attracting heightened investor interest, a...

HSBC

is making plenty of noise about having spent $2.3 billion on improving its artificial intelligence (AI) and digital capabilities...

French startup Alan closed a $28.3 million Series A round a few months ago. Index Ventures is leading the round, Xavier Niel is...

Allianz Malaysia Bhd, despite failed merger with HSBC Amanah Takaful a year ago, is still keen to acquire a takaful business, said...

CEOs of major reinsurance firms believe that while the digitalisation of insurance and the current technology wave is something they have...

We are proud to support Brian Norton and his team in building out Supply Finance! Co-founder of student loan lender Future Finance is...

After two years of development, Santander Group is launching a blockchain-based app, built on Ripple's tech infrastructure, for...

Latest funding round could value the financial technology firm at close to $150 billion

As the WSJ points out, until AI can learn on the fly as our brains do, it will never be truly intelligent. One avenue to teaching AI to...

With 30m in the US without a bank account, PayPal is expanding into traditional banking through partnership with smaller banks to offer...

Former Social Finance boss Mike Cagney and erstwhile LendingClub Chief Executive Renaud Laplanche are each back with new loan ventures...

Liberis are proud to announce that we have secured £57.5m in combined funding from British Business Investments, Paragon Bank, BCI...

The industry is taking a cautious approach in spite of excitement about new technology. Former Citigroup chief Vikram Pandit — reborn as...

Ant Financial – the payments company controlled by Alibaba founder Jack Ma – could become the most valuable start-up in the world if it...

OJK deputy commissioner Sukarela Batunanggar said as of April, there were 44 P2P lending businesses that had been granted operational...

The general lack of cyber-security safeguards in fintech companies has raised serious concerns around data protection and compliance,...

He was speaking at the launch of the “EY Asian Fintech Census 2018-Where stands Fintech Vietnam” conference on April 12. “Vietnam...

When Madhusudan Ekambaram, the co-founder of Bangalore-based KrazyBee, travelled to China for funding in 2016, it seemed clear he...

Google, Amazon, and Apple have all taken moves into the U.S. healthcare industry in recent months with a variety of tech-driven...

Dorian Selz explains machine learning and how artificial intelligence technologies are enabling firms to extract insight from growing...

Cross-border B2B transactions will exceed $218 trillion by 2022, up from $150 trillion in 2018, the company predicts.

Disrupting...

“We can work on our strengths because Malaysia and Bahrain both have relatively newly implemented policies when it comes to fintech. I...

At the moment, in addition to Toko Pandai, there are already 15 fintech services provider registered in Bank Indonesia such as Cashlez...

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) and its Swiss counterpart, the Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma), exchanged letters...

According to a March 30 statement, Nomura Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, will invest 1.6 billion yen...

This was followed by marketplace, wealth management, company solution and accounting based software providers.

“The collaboration between...

Great interview with CEO of DIG, INGO weber, about how they are changing the Insurance Industry. Article is in german sorry.

According to a survey by online mortgage broker Trussle, 70% of homeowners want mortgage lenders to go digital with 625,000 claiming that...

CivilisedBank, a UK challenger bank, that was aiming to start lending to British businesses in the coming months has given up its banking...

Shares in Monex Group closed near a 10-year high on Friday after the Japanese online brokerage said it would pay ¥3.6bn ($33.5m) for...

Forrester has identified 12 AI technologies and solutions that can help insurers achieve improved operational efficiencies and better...

Where: Look to commercial lines. Distribution for personal lines is only one part of the equation, and not the core of the problem.

This Regional Profile on Asia-Pacific is drawn from our inaugural Insurance Nexus Global Trend Map, an in-depth quantitative-qualitative...

In another sign of the growing link between agtech and insurance, Dutch remote sensing startup VanderSat has partnered with Swiss Re, the...

Insurtech's profile in Asia is growing rapidly, particularly in the emerging technology hubs of India, China and Singapore. That's...

Plug and Play announced today the 16 startups that will join "Insurtech Europe powered by Plug and Play," the newly launched Plug and...

FinanzRitter is a next-generation digital insurance broker that combines consumer protection, artificial intelligence and handcrafted...

TSB, the U.K.’s challenger bank, is gearing up to create Business Marketplace, an internet site that will enable small businesses to...

Ride hailing behemoth Uber has confirmed that it has applied to the Dutch central bank for an e-money license as it looks to broaden its...

Great news for 8 securities! Mikaal Abdulla, founder of stock trading startup 8 Securities, is feeling bullish today after pocketing his...

Ant Financial's consumer lending business appears to be facing serious regulatory headwinds, with a 74 percent quarter-over-quarter...

You don’t hear of many $2 loans in the United States, where $2 won’t buy you more than a chocolate bar. Branch is a way onto a platform...

San Francisco based Credit Karma has received $500m in a secondary offering from Silver Lake, valuing the company at $4b.

Denizen, created at BBVA’s in-house incubator and funded by the bank’s digital business unit, charges no foreign exchange fees, provides...

Tel Aviv based big data and predictive analytics software for life insurance raised a $5m Series A led by Vertex Ventures with...

Royal Bank of Scotland is to acquire UK accounting software vendor FreeAgent in a deal that values the firm at £53 million.More than...

The service was launched in partnership with e-mas, a gold trading platform founded by online jewelry platform ORORI.

Through the...

The first fintech company to be listed on the Singapore bourse, Ayondo offers social trading and brokerage services to both...

The press release notes that the agreement will “raise the profile of the Japanese fintech industry and promote Singapore as a...

A question often asked in the financial sector is: “Are banks facing their Kodak moment, thanks to the advent of fintech?”

This question...

Nomura is buying a majority stake in a fintech firm 8 Securities, the Tokyo-based investment bank said in a media statement. The bank...