WIRED: Stefan Thomas, chief technology officer of Ripple Labs, wants to build something he calls

News.Gov.HK: The Government is committed to transforming Hong Kong into a hub for innovation and

EU-STARTUPS: In the last decade, there were a bunch of really successful fintech companies that

TECHCRUNCH: Former Disrupt Battlefield participant Self Lender has raised a $1.5 million round of seed

Japan Times: On July 8 and 9, Russia hosted Chinese, Indian, Brazilian and South African leaders

TECHINASIA: Cermati, an online portal for finding and comparing financial products in Indonesia, announced earlier

TECHCRUNCH: As Apple continues to build out Apple Pay for transactions in retail stores, one

WIRED: In a world where Bitcoin wants to make your personal identity irrelevant, disruptive data

E27CO: Singapore-based fin-tech startup Toast is raising a US$750,000 seed round, with half the funds

BLOOMBERGVIEW: What kind of chief executive does a big modern bank need? Apparently not a

WIRED: Funding Circle, a marketplace for business loans, is one of a growing number of companies

WIRED: The financial technology (FinTech) sector is responsible for a record hike in venture capital being

WIRED: Are hackers the new bankers? This is the question rolling around in the mind

TECHINASIA: Nearex, a mobile payments startup based in Singapore, yesterday announced it raised funds in

TECHINASIA: Alibaba’s spin-off finance subsidiary, Ant Financial, today put out a major new update to

TECHCRUNCH: In a move that feels fairly unusual, Global Founders Capital (GFC), the venture capital

THE ECONOMIST: China is certainly not the first country to try to prop up a falling

TECHCRUNCH: Lendingkart, a New Delhi-based platform for small businesses loans, has raised a Series A

FORBES: China’s Alibaba Group is deepening ties with Singapore’s national postal service provider SingPost, as

E27.CO: With all the attention on Asia from investors, sometimes people forget there are other

TechCrunch: French startup SlimPay just raised $16.6M (€15M) from Prime Ventures for its payment processing solution. SlimPay

Financial Times: PayPal has an official market value as a standalone company, ahead of its separation

E27.CO: Philippines-based fin-tech startup LoanSolutions has raised an undisclosed round of funding from a group

TechCrunch: It was the big story not so long ago. As of mid-June, 14 U.S.-traded China-based companies had

ASIAONE: It was all mapped out in the stars. Ms Jenny Lee was transported from

TECHINASIA: Vladislav Solodkiy, Life.SREDA VC: It has been almost 2 months since I relocated to Singapore. During

TechCrunch: The credit score has become a ubiquitous way to assess someone’s credit-worthiness. It is used

FORBES: Apple has quietly filed for a new patent which details a person-to-person money transmission

ASIA Outlook: The MoU between Marvelstone and Life.SREDA will strengthen startup capacities across Asia in the

E27.CO: Singapore-based real-time financial monitoring app Call Levels is raising a US$500,000 bridge round to