By Masara Ikedu for VB Tokyo-based Moneytree, the Japanese startup offering an asset managing app

By Igor Pesin for LTP InsurTech is a relatively new industry.

A new open source project called YobiChain enables anyone to build a private blockchain ecosystem

Pluto AI, a Palo Alto, CA-based smart water management analytics platform, raised $2.1m in funding.

By Nathaniel Popper for CNBC, The big banks and Silicon Valley are waging an escalating

By Sainul Abudhen for e27, eBay is the sixth largest player in the e-commerce space

By Kevin McSpadden for e27, After an explosion in the number of deals in 2015,

Ecommerce in Hong Kong is rapidly improving, with the latest market size showing consistent growth

By Ryan Lawler Founded by serial entrepreneur Adam Dell, Clarity Money makes a personal finance app that

By Michael Tegos for TechinAsia The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) continues to make it easier for

Octopus Ventures, a London, UK-based venture capital firm, has raised £120m for a new fund

By DEAN TAKAHASHI for Venture Beat Fundthis is launching a new “risk-free” crowdfunding platform to enable creators to

By Jon Russel for TC Amazon has postponed its much-anticipated entry into Southeast Asia. The

By Tom Groenfeldt for Forbes, SAP Ariba, which connects 2.5 million buyers and sellers around the world

by DEAN TAKAHASHI for VB Malaysian fintech startup Jirnexu has raised $1.5 million in funding from DMP,

Amazon .com has agreed in principle to buy 100% of Dubai-based online retailer Souq.com from

By Khari Johnson for Venture Beat, SAP Ariba unveiled an AI-powered assistant named Procurement today to

By BI Inteligence, While the US and European fintech markets seem to have stalled, Asia

GOLDMAN Sachs Group, known for advising the world’s richest and most powerful, is building a

By Paul Sawers for VentureBeat, Samsung has launched its mobile payments service in India.

By Connie Loizos (@cookie), Josh Constine (@joshconstine), Ryan Lawler (@ryanlawler), Sarah Buhr (@sarahbuhr) for Techcrunch.

By Colin Wu for Tech in Asia, When you think of insurance, certain things come

By BÉRÉNICE MAGISTRETTI for Venturebeat Parents’ worry for their children often leads them to what should be

By Nadine Freischlad for Tech in Asia,  Pawoon, one of the point-of-sales startups targeting Indonesia’s millions of

Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) signed Decision No.328/QĐ-NHNN to establish SBV Steering

By LTP Regulatory and compliance issues are some of the most important, complex and resource-consuming

By Artem Tymoshenko for LTP Banking has always been a very conservative industry. If liquidity

Digital challenger bank Tandem has been rocked by news that Sanpower, the Chinese conglomerate which

By Sainul Abudheen for e27 Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has closed a US$1 billion funding round,