MUFG’s banking arm The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU), the third largest bank in the

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma’s latest U.S. expansion plan is facing rising political obstacles.

Vladislav Solodkiy, Managing partner, Life.SREDA Last year was marked by an active “flirting” of traditional

By Eva Xiao for TechinAsia. Jack Ma’s multi-billion-dollar empire is built on open marketplaces. First,

Digital challenger bank Monzo has completed its £2.5 million crowdfund raise, attracting a record-breaking 6500

By David Penn for Finovate LendingTree unveiled its Student Loan Refinance Tool this week.

By Anuchit Nguyen for Bloomberg Siam Commercial Bank Pcl, Thailand’s oldest homegrown lender, plans to

By Samburaj Das for CCN Spanish multinational banking group BBVA becomes the latest financial institution

By Yon Heong Tung for e27.com Existing investors Tencent and Apple are said to be

By Bitbond Global SME lending platform Bitbond and African payment services provider BitPesa announced today

By Allison Prang for American Banker, Banks of all sizes — from Bank of America

To get noticed by Silicon Valley’s startup machine Y Combinator is every budding entrepreneur’s dream.

by Madhvi Mavadiya for Forbes, After I discussed Germany’s post-Brexit allure in a previous article,

[TOKYO] Ping An Insurance (Group) Co plans to invest US$100 million a year in Japanese

By technode Ant Financial’s investing app Ant Fortune unveiled Caifu Hao earlier this week

by Yon Heong Tung for e27.com Khmerload has also set up a sister site in

By Yon Heong Tung for e27.com The new funding round was led by Vickers Venture

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

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

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 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 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 Stefan Schrauf, Philipp Berttram and Morten Grunwald If the vision of Industry 4.0 is