BankNXT: Bankers may be taking undue solace in Chris Skinner’s 10 April American Banker BankThink post,

World Bank: Financial inclusion is critical in reducing poverty and achieving inclusive economic growth. When

E27.CO: Russian venture capital firm Life.SREDA, which e27 exclusively reported is to open its own fin-tech

The New York Times:  Faced with an acute and worsening shortage of blue-collar workers, China is

TECHCRUNCH: Last month, WeChat launched City Services in select towns across China. If you’re already a user of WeChat, simply

TECHINASIA: Restaurant management software-as-a-service startup Keru Cloud today announced it has secured RMB 66 million (US$10.7 million) in series B

TECHINASIA:  Peer-to-peer lending startup Jimubox has just secured $84 million in series C funding. It comes seven months

TECHCRUNCH: Despite the shift away from paying with cash or check in favor of digital

TECHCRUNCH: TechCrunch is hearing from a few sources that GoFundMe, a crowdfunding and fundraising startup, is seeking

FINOVATE:  The alternative lending sector, especially in China, is soaking up funds at an unprecedented

E27.CO: The accelerator will be housed in a ‘newly-renovated 5,000-sq-ft workspace in the heart of Wan

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Pentagon plans to open its first office in Silicon Valley and

E27.CO: As more and more companies look to Singapore as their HQ, understanding how to

E27.CO: Singapore can be called a business nation: values this country has contributed to the world’s

E27.CO: On the sidelines of LetsIgnite (an event organised for angel investors in India by online deal-making platform

TECHCRUNCH: Here comes some more funding for a European financial tech company specialising in online loans.

PCWorld: The amount of money sent to sub-Saharan Africa via mobile services is expected to hit

Inc.:  Sometimes the most stunning changes arise from the smallest of ideas. That’s the origin

TECHCRUNCH: Time to make way for another startup juggernaut out of the financial world. Funding Circle — a London-based peer-to-peer platform

WIRED: Tesla is admired for building the cars of the future. But it’s not really a

RE/CODE: Path is in serious talks to sell its original social networking app, known as Path Classic,

The Finanser: Matthias Kröner has been CEO of Fidor Bank since 2006. He is responsible for

TECHINASIA: Alibaba is continuing its foray into entertainment with a US$134 million purchase of Yueke Software

TECHINASIA: China’s tech giants are working hard to make sure that consumers use their phones

TECHINASIA: Bitcoin is a global phenomenon, but not everyone around the world uses it in the same

TECHCRUNCH: Alphaworks, the equity crowd-funding platform for startups and their communities, is today re-branding to

TECHCRUNCH:  Remittances – sending cash overseas – has always been bitcoin‘s killer app. Now the

Money Summit: In the last few years “neobanks” such as Moven, Simple and GoBank have been

BUSINESS WIRE: Currency Cloud, which provides international payments to businesses via an API, has expanded to

Uber and Capital One are excited to announce a partnership that enables Uber riders to get