TECHCRUNCH: Lendingkart, a New Delhi-based platform for small businesses loans, has raised a Series A

TechCrunch: It was the big story not so long ago. As of mid-June, 14 U.S.-traded China-based companies had

TechCrunch:  Alibaba’s subsidiary company Ant Financial confirmed today that it closed a Series A funding round which

Bloomberg: As more Chinese jumped into the market in the hope of instant wealth, peer-to-peer websites

TechInAsia: Mobile payment methods like Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s Tenpay account for a huge portion of

TechCrunch: China’s Baidu, the company best known for its dominant search engine, said today that it will

The WSJ: Home-rental service Airbnb Inc. has completed one of the biggest private-funding rounds ever, raising

TechCrunch: JD.com has become the latest internet company in China to venture into the consumer credit space,

Forbes: Looking to learn more about early winners in the exploding business of online finance in

TECHCRUNCH: There’s a myopia blinding e-commerce players to the reality of opportunities in Southeast Asia. Everyone

Techinasia: Alibaba revealed this afternoon that its finance subsidiary, Ant Financial – which runs Alipay,

International Business Times: Paytm, which has recently forayed into online retailing business, is planning to

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

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

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

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

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

TECHINASIA: Online finance and lending platforms have been exploding in China, and the P2P lending sector

MONOCLE: With a “strategic co-operation partnership” in place, China has stood by Sri Lanka when its

TECHINASIA: Peer-to-peer lending is one of the hottest – if not the hottest – business model in

The New York Times:  Faced with an acute and worsening shortage of blue-collar workers, China is

TECHCRUNCH: Last month, WeChat launched City Services in select towns across China. If you’re already a user of WeChat, simply

TECHINASIA: Restaurant management software-as-a-service startup Keru Cloud today announced it has secured RMB 66 million (US$10.7 million) in series B

TECHINASIA: Alibaba is continuing its foray into entertainment with a US$134 million purchase of Yueke Software

TECHINASIA: Alibaba wants its merchants to ditch their PCs. The ecommerce titan has rolled out new tools

WIRED: Hugo Barra had  a pretty good job—I mean, assuming you consider building the most popular

WIRED: It’s the perfect  Internet strategy: Position yourself at the mouth of a datastream, then get

DEALSTREETASIA:  Data from SNL Financial, released earlier this week,showed that Singapore state-owned fund Temasek Holdings is the single-largest foreign

TECHINASIA: China’s wannabe pop stars can now subject their friends to drunken renditions of Jay Chou

REUTERS: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) and its finance affiliate accelerated a drive to be