By LTP As financial technology startups become an immense part of the global financial system,

By Philip Stephens for Financial Times The other day Angela Merkel took a few hours out from

By Lidiana Rosli for New Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR: Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today announced six

By Jane Wild for Financial Times “If you can’t beat them, join them,” could well be the

By Sumit Chakraberty for TechInAsia There was a revealing exchange last week between a representative of Startup

  By Kia Kokalitcheva for Fortune Comma.ai’s founder doesn’t want to spend his time “dealing with regulators

By Simon Denyer for Independent The Communist Party wants to encourage good behaviour by marking all its

By Connie Loizos for TechCrunch Not so long ago, Theranos was flying high, its claims that

By Janos Barberis for LTP The general perception of regulators is that they are slow

By LTP Hong Kong is quickly establishing itself as one of the hubs of FinTech

By LTP Without a doubt, the FinTech center of gravity is Asia. Recently, KPMG has

By Olusegun Ogundeji for CryptocoinsNews A section of US Democrat and Republican congressmen now agree

By VentureBeat (Reuters) — The technology behind the controversial bitcoin electronic currency could lead to

By Michael Tegos for TechInAsia The Singapore government made one more step toward bringing public services

By Jeremy Quittner for Fortune Credit cards with a chip have only been the standard for

By Rebecca Campbell for CryptocoinsNews A senior Bank of Japan (BoJ) official has stated that bitcoin and

By Lalita Clozel for American Banker Until recently, federal regulators appeared to be waiting for

By Fitz Tepper for TechCrunch If you’ve been out of touch with the FinTech market

By Sofia for LTP As FinTech hubs around the world enter various phases of growth

By VentureBeat (Reuters) – Thailand is studying plans for tougher tax collection rules governing internet

By Rachel Witkowski for WSJ WASHINGTON—A House bill intended to keep the U.S. from losing

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has set out a host of new cybersecurity regulations for

Financial regulators in Singapore and Switzerland have signed a fintech co-operation agreement, pledging help and

By Chris Pash for BI Digital retail finance and payment industry player zipMoney has bought

By Mike Butcher for TechCrunch.com Some people might be wondering why a hashtag to do

BNP Paribas has opened a 5000 square foot ‘Innovation Zone’ on the 30th floor of

By John Russel for Techcrunch Hong Kong is making a move to challenge Singapore and others

By Bloomberg The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is establishing a financial-technology hub and adopting a

By Dennis Mitzner for Techcrunch.com The EU’s efforts to regulate financial markets has opened new opportunities

By Tanya Macheel for American Banker The second wave of the fintech boom is here,