Line Corporation, best known for its messaging app, launched a digital banking platform in Indonesia

Japan-based Line Corporation announced that Line BK, its social banking service unit in Thailand, has surpassed 2

According to AltFi, digital banking service Revolut announced a new milestone today as it sailed past 500,000

Japanese messaging company LINE has launched a blockchain development platform called LINE Blockchain Developers for

via Reuters Japan will look closer into whether to issue central bank digital currencies (CBDCs),

via PYMNTS Tokyo, Japan’s digital banking startup Kyash has closed a $45 million Series C funding deal

via TechCrunch The new era of tech-enabled banks is coming, even in regulation-heavy Japan. Kyash,

via CoinGeek Exchanges that are a little too lax on their anti-money laundering (AML) and

By Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters has announced the launch of a new investment information service

By Judith Balea for TechInAsia The Philippine central bank has decided to regulate virtual currencies, particularly Bitcoin,

By Sainul Abudheen K for e27 FOLIO, a startup offering an online security brokerage service in

By Samburaj Das for CryptoCoinsNews As Japan prepares to enforce regulations upon bitcoin exchanges in the country,

By Rebecca Campbell for CryptocoinsNews FinTech is growing in Japan, but, unlike the rest of Asia, it’s

By Michael Tegos for TechInAsia Fintech is going strong in Asia as the year draws to a

By Jon Russell for TechCrunch Android Pay continues its international rollout with a launch in Japan today,

By Osman Husain for TechInAsia “Individual investors in Japan, especially those above 60 years of age, prefer

By The Business Times [TOKYO] New financial technology, or “fintech”, poses fresh challenges for central

By Samburaj Das for CryptocoinsNews A number of companies have joined the Japan Exchange Group (JPX) To

By Fastcompany Apple Pay’s Japan debut has train riders in the region flummoxed. On Tuesday,

By Masaru Ikeda for VentureBeat Tokyo-based WealthNavi, the company offering a technology-based asset management service under the same

By Peter Rothenberg for TechInAsia Japan’s Money Forward, a personal financial management and cloud-based accounting software

By Ingrid Lunden for TechCrunch Stripe, the company that lets app publishers, online merchants and other

By Michael Tegos for TechInAsia Japan’s relationship with fintech has blossomed in 2016, said Natalie Shiori

By WSJ Staff The Bank of Japan disappointed investors with its limited expansion of monetary stimulus Friday.

By Rachel Boon for StraitsTimes, SINGAPORE -Personal finance portal MoneySmart.sg will offer an OCBC Bank

By J.T. Quigley for TechinAsia.com Starting a new business is hard. Starting a new business

By Sarah Perez for Techcrunch.com Estimote, a beacon company whose small, wireless sensors and accompanying

TECH IN ASIA:  Japan’s GMO Internet is often in the news as an investor, but today the Japanese

FORTUNE: Former Google executive Nikesh Arora joined SoftBank last year to oversee the Japanese company’s investment

TECHCRUNCH: SoftBank, the Japanese telecom giant that is also one of Asia’s most prolific startup investors, has