via TechCrunch French startup Qonto has raised a $115 million Series C funding round led by Tencent

via TechCrunch Ualá, an Argentine personal finance management app, has raised a $150 million Series

via The Indian Wire NiYO Solutions, a Benglauru-based neo-banking startup has raised $35 million in

via PYMNTS The banking regulator in Hong Kong has issued an additional four online-only banking

via PYMNTS With more consumers than ever interested in fulfilling all their financial needs on

By Reuters China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd is seeking a loan of up to $2 billion,

By Eric Crouch for TechinAsia, Tencent, the company behind China’s wildly popular messenger/digital wallet/everything app

By Zennon Kapron for Forbes With digitalization and FinTech high on the banking agenda, the disruption of

By Steven Millward for techinAsia.com WeChat was born five years ago today. Here’s our potted

Alibaba isn’t the only e-commerce service in China with a financial services arm capable of

By Igor Pesin, Partner at Life.SREDA

TechInAsia: WeChat censorship report: 1.5% of posts get censored. WeChat is China’s hottest social media app. But

E27.CO: Singapore-based real-time financial monitoring app Call Levels is raising a US$500,000 bridge round to

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

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

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

TECHINASIA: Messaging app WeChat now has 500 million monthly active users (MAUs), parent company Tencent