TechCrunch:  Alibaba’s subsidiary company Ant Financial confirmed today that it closed a Series A funding round which

E27.CO: incub@TE, an incubator run by Tata Elxsi (part of the US$100 billion Tata Group),

TECHCRUNCH: French startup Prêt d’Union just raised $34 million (€31 million) from Eurazeo, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet as

DEALSTREETASIA: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has committed S$225 million ($166.48 million) over the

WSJ: America’s startup-investing frenzy has reached the shopping mall. On the prowl for retail innovation,

MASABLE:  Facebook Messenger has finally rolled out its payments feature across the entire U.S. so

World Economic Forum “The Future of Financial Services” report. How disruptive innovations are reshaping the way

WIRED: Ahead of the event, here’s everything you need to know about one of the biggest

E27.CO: GrabTaxi from Singapore is about to get US$200 million in fresh capital, pegging its

Bloomberg: As more Chinese jumped into the market in the hope of instant wealth, peer-to-peer websites

E27.CO: Currently in beta, the launched version will allow users to connect their debit cards, send

TechCrunch: Adaptive Insights, a fast-growing startup that sells cloud-based services to finance and other management teams to model a

TechInAsia: Mobile payment methods like Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s Tenpay account for a huge portion of

E27.CO: A special focus of the fund will be Southeast Asia and South Korea, with the

E27.CO: South Korean restaurant discovery app MangoPlate has announced today that it has secured US$6.1 million from venture

TechCrunch: Mobile payment startup Square has been gradually building out the products it offers to small businesses to

TechCrunch: China’s Baidu, the company best known for its dominant search engine, said today that it will

DEALSTREETASIA: Southeast Asian super-regional financial services group DBS, which is based in Singapore, has launched a DBS fintech accelerator in

Business Insider: BI recently sat down with Facebook’s VP of Europe, the Middle East and Africa,

The WSJ: Home-rental service Airbnb Inc. has completed one of the biggest private-funding rounds ever, raising

TECHINASIA: It’s easy to spot the rapidly rising number of hotels and restaurants in Vietnam.

DealStreetAsia: The limit on foreign holdings in Vietnam’s listed companies has been officially lifted, significantly removing investment restriction

TechCrunch: JD.com has become the latest internet company in China to venture into the consumer credit space,

DIGITAL NEWS ASIA: CUSCAPI Bhd said that Ministry of Food Singapore Pte Ltd, a restaurant chain

DEALSTREETASIA: Philippine fintech startup PawnHero has won the Echelon Asia Summit 2015 Judges’ Choice Award in Singapore Wednesday

TECHCRUNCH: PayRange, which makes a small device that plugs into vending machines that enables customers to

TECHCRUNCH: PayNearMe is a financial services startup that has managed to fly under the radar of the tech-savvy. That’s

Monocle: ASEAN is the best region for living in the new Monocle Quality of Life Survey

Forbes: Looking to learn more about early winners in the exploding business of online finance in

TECHCRUNCH:  Telegram is poised to come out with Apple Watch support and, as I hinted,