By Anisa Menur A. Maulani for e27 Alibaba Group’s fintech arm Ant Financial has been announced

By Cafe Fan for TechNode A call to all entrepreneurs and industry insiders: want to test your

Vladislav Solodkiy, managing partner at Life.SREDA VC Chinese fintechs are very strong in terms of

By Emma Lee for Technode More and more entrepreneurs nowadays lean towards second-tier cities, thanks to lower

By Shai Oster and Selina Wang for Bloomberg Women launch more than half of all new Internet

by Zennon Kapron for Kapron Asia Over the past few months Alibaba’s ‘Finance Cloud’ has

By Jon Russel for Techcrunch.com Baidu has made its second investment in a U.S. fintech

By Tim CulpanNisha Gopalan for Bloomberg It looks like China’s central bank chief just rained on Alibaba’s

By Bloomberg News Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s finance affiliate has acquired a 20 percent stake

By Osman Husain for TechinAsia Twiggle, a startup that’s trying to build better ecommerce search

By Reuters  A large Chinese online lending platform accused of illegal operations has suspended operations,

By Reuters A large Chinese online lending platform accused of illegal operations has suspended operations,

By James Vincent for the Verge China has reportedly increased its scrutiny of foreign-made consumer

Just like their counterparts in Silicon Valley, startups in Asia are facing a tougher fundraising

By Saibal Dasgupta for Voa News China’s online finance companies, including Alibaba and Tencent, are

By Scott Martin for WSJ Venture Capital China’s wealthy are seeking places to park capital in

By Rahil Bhagat for Forbes Asia Alibaba’s Ant Financial Services Group, one of the world’s

By Reuters China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd is seeking a loan of up to $2 billion,

By David Rowan for the Wired.co.uk At the IngDan Experience Center, in the Geosciences Research

By Hariett Green for City AM, The Asia-Pacific alternative finance market grew 323 per cent last

By Alfred Liu for the Bloomberg Business, Peer-to-peer lending for property in China grew more

By Zheping Huang for the Quartz.com  China has issued new restrictions on citizens buying insurance

By Eric Crouch for TechinAsia, Tencent, the company behind China’s wildly popular messenger/digital wallet/everything app

By Claire van den Heever for The World Post, a partnership between Huffington Post and Berggruen Institute, CAPE

By Joseph Bradley for cryptocurrencynews.com HK$17B has been pledged by the financial secretary of Hong

By Jason Ding, Bruno Lannes, Weiwen Han, and Tingting Yao Rapid innovation in China is delivering

By Jason Ding, Bruno Lannes, Weiwen Han, and Tingting Yao Executive summary: Every single day of

By C.Custer for TechinAsia, The battle over the Chinese epayment market is raging fiercely now

Beijing-based P2P (peer-to-peer) lending start-up Weijinsuo has completed a RMB300 million (US$46 million) series A

By Malavika Velayanikal for techinasia.com One of the pain points for startups in India is