REUTERS: China‘s banking regulator has given a green light to MYbank, the online bank affiliated

TECHINASIA: Since Myanmar opened up its economy in 2010, after one of the most brutal dictatorships

E27.CO: With e-shopping on the rise, there is a paradigm shift in the traditional payments scene, giving

DEALSTREETASIA: Vietnam-based Coc Coc has become the second most popular search engine in Vietnam, after Chrome. Three months

TECHINASIA: Recently landed in Singapore, Russian venture capital Life.Sreda today announced it has hired Huawei’s former global head of

TECHINASIA: Tumblbug, a South Korean crowdfunding platform for the creative arts, announced today it has raised KRW 17

The Wall Street Journal: The Shanghai Stock Exchange is on track to inaugurate a new market

TECHCRUNCH: JFDI Asia, the Singapore-based accelerator program, is doubling down its investment in early-stage startups and

DEALSTREETASIA: For almost a decade, Vietnam’s startup scene has faced shortage of quality startups, lack of

The Wall Street Journal: The Philippines’ economy is shedding its reputation as a laggard and outpacing

CIO ASIA: In early May this year, Russian fintech Venture capital firm, Life.SREDA VC, moved

The Wall Street Journal: The owner of several of the world’s best-known luxury brands has filed

FINEXTRA: India’s Axis Bank has launched a mobile payments service that lets users send money to

THE PAYPERS: Alibaba Group has recently introduced a mobile app, Miao Street, that can help stores market

DEALSTREETASIA: The Philippine Long Distance and Telephone Co (PLDT) is planning to invest around $100 million in its

E27.CO: Rob Findlay sat down with e27 to share his thoughts on the fin-tech ecosystem in

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

E27.CO: Citrus Pay is a leading online checkout and payment solutions company in India. Headquartered in

TECHCRUNCH: The bulk of Alibaba’s revenue still comes from China, but the e-commerce giant will focus

Fintech Demo Day is the first event jointly hosted by Marvelstone Partners, Life.SREDA VC and Yozma Group Asia for the

Bloomberg: Fan Bao and his ‘Alpha Team’ of investment bankers are scouring China’s startup scene to

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

E27.CO: The world’s best fin-tech companies come from countries with a close collaboration between all parties,

TECHCRUNCH:  Uber is synonymous with its cashless payment experience, but that’s about to change. At

IFRE.COM: Last week, the  head of Singapore’s DBS Group, Piyush Gupta, sounded the alarm over shifts

The Guardian: A huge Chinese company, Tiens Group, is treating more than half of its

TECHINASIA: Which is the startup capital of India? That has been an ongoing debate in recent

TECHINASIA: Taiwan ought to be a digital nomad’s paradise. With ultra-efficient urban infrastructure, affordable prices (unless

E27.CO: The move is aimed at giving Filipinos easier access to loans and enabling more financial power

The Next Web: Japan-based messenger app LINE is one of the biggest apps in Asia, but many