ВВС: Bitcoin might conjour up visions of dark doings on the Silk Road website and

TECHCRUNCH: Starbucks’ mobile ordering system, which allows customers to place orders in advance of their

THE FINANCIAL BRAND: According to BI Intelligence, the consumer payments industry will process about $2.7 trillion

PYMNTS: MasterCard and Microsoft have announced a partnership to support Mexico’s economic development. The companies support

TECHCRUNCH: Twitter may be blocked in mainland China, but there is still plenty of money to

TECHINASIA:  Last week, the Singapore government issued new laws that will allow drivers to receive payments

VENTUREBEAT: Less than a week after Kickstarter saw the new Pebble smartwatch smash its previous funding

WIRED: Businesses in the US are on a hiring spree, but jobs that require tech skills sit

VENTUREBEAT: Today, Square announced a new program for merchants that protects them when customers dispute purchases. When buyers contest a

TECHCRUNCH: Apple CEO Tim Cook offered a quick update this morning on the rapid growth of

E27.CO: The startup aims to make transactions simpler by offering easy multi-currency management.  Tofupay is

RRE: US startup Abra has launched its mobile app for remittances (available on iPhone and

TECHINASIA: It’s official: Twitter has arrived in Jakarta and opened an office space in the 15th

DIGITAL CURRENCY MAGNATES: Fidor is not your ordinary bank. You can actually sign into your account through

FAST COMPANY: Thiago Olson, a 25-year-old founder and CEO of payment company Stratos, is now

WIRED: Remeber Coin, the credit card-sized gizmo that promised to streamline your wallet by consolidating all your

TECHCRUNCH: Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular

TECHCRUNCH:  PayPal, the payments service with 162 million users preparing to separate from e-commerce giant eBay later this year,

FORBES: How KakaoTalk’s founder ignited a global messaging war. Kim Beom-Su, the son of a

QFC: The Global Financial Centres Index (№17, March’15): New York (1), Hong Kong (3), Singapore (4),

InvestHK Annual Report 2014

MarketResearch.com: Banking Innovation is a global growth‐sector. There are three types of banking innovations (on top of

FAST COMPANY: Kickstarter may have kickstarted the crowdfunding movement, but it did so with arbitrary and

FAST COMPANY: A trends report from Wolff Olins says CEOs are starting to harnes the

COMPUTER WORLD: The Hong Kong government will be offering financial assistance to technology startups with its

WIRED UK: Tim Cook has told an employee at Apple Store Kurfürstendamm in Berlin that Apple

BUDGET SPEECH: Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary John C Tsang in his budget speech has announced

WIRED: When you buy art, you typically get something physical in return: A print, a painting,

THE PAYPERS: The US Department of Treasury has started accepting PayPal and Dwolla e-payment methods for tax collection services in an

AEGON, one of the largest financial groups in the world, which owns the Dutch startup