By Lynsey Chutel for Quartz South Africa wants to be a digital economy, but someone

By Melissa Mittelman for Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the latest bank to take

By DAN GILLMOR AND KEVIN MARKS for Fast Company  The Internet’s designers and a new generation of

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

By News BTC India is one of the largest cash dependent nations in the world.

By Yasmine Yahya for Straits Times Slowing global growth, the emergence of innovative finance start-ups

By Reuters Mobile wallet is seen as a way to sell devices, not collect fees.

By Brian Eha for American Banker Barclays Africa Group has a market penetration problem.

By John Rampton  It’s anticipated that there will be more than 4.8 billion individuals using a mobile phone

By Lucy Hornby for Financial Times Debt recovery tactics grow more aggressive as economy slows

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

By Alexander Dunaev for TechCrunch According to a recent study by Accenture, investments in fintech

By Martin Pasquier for techcrunch With 17 percent of the GDP, it’s fair to say that Samsung

By Vladislav Solodkiy for The Deal Street Asia Fintech is currently undergoing a natural evolution

By David Mayer for the Fortune Samsung beats Apple and Google to the punch in

By Max Nisen for Bloomberg Biotech, at its core, means burning tons of cash on R&D

By Cathleen Chaykowski for Forbes At 213 slides, Mary Meeker’s anticipated annual “Internet Trends” report was

By Michael Tegos for TechinAsia Big data analytics startup Lynx Analytics announced today it has

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

By Romain Dillet for Techcrunch.com Companies behind popular messaging apps have a year to move

By the Economist “WHAT rate of interest…can naturally be more proper than another?” asked Jeremy

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

By Michael Tegos for TechinAsia If data is the “new oil,” data scientists are the

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

By Sneha Banerjee for the Entrepreneur  At a time when the startup ecosystem is flooded

By Osman Husain for TechinAsia CloudWell, a last-mile payments startup headquartered in Bangladesh’s capital city,

By Srinivas Krishnaswamy for TechinAsia I had a cushy job in the US for over a decade.

By Michael Tegos for techinAsia Insurance giant Allianz announced today it is opening Asia Lab,

By Jon Evans for Techcrunch.com In the beginning the Prophet Satoshi brought us Bitcoin. And

By Prabhu Mallikarjunan for the Financial Express The growing collaboration between technology and finance has fired the