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Apple Pay Teams Up With Amex To Launch In Singapore
Apple is partnering with American Express to bring Apple Pay to “key global markets,” Apple CEO Tim Cook announced during the earnings call for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2015. According to Amex,...
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SuperCharger Accelerator Aims To Help Fintech Startups And Established...
Standard Chartered, Baidu and co-working space operator Tuspark Global Network (TGN) have teamed up to launch SuperCharger, an 12-week accelerator program dedicated to fintech startups and established...
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Fintech Finals 2016 Heads To Hong Kong / The Semi-Final Winners
On January 25 and 26, the 2016 Fintech Finals conference and pitch competition will be held in Hong Kong featuring 40 Fintech Finals finalists who will exhibit. 24 chosen startups will have the...
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20 Upcoming Fintech and Digital Banking Events in Singapore and Southeast Asia
Tired of crawling the Internet to find the hottest fintech events in your region? Need not worry. Today we’ve compiled a list of the 20 most important upcoming fintech and digital banking events and...
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Hong Kong’s Fintech Industry: Opportunities, Challenges and Success Stories
In the race to become Asia’s fintech hub, Singapore and Hong Kong are undeniably the two most well placed to claim the title. Singapore and Hong Kong, two of the Four Asian Tigers, are global financial...
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Fintech Regulation in Asia: How Singapore, HK, Korea, Japan, China, India Are...
In 2015, Asia’s fintech startups attracted US$4.5 billion in venture capital funding through 130 deals, making the region the second biggest player in terms of venture capital following North America...
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Hong Kong’s Top 11 Fintech Influencers
With financial services accounting for 16% of its GDP and employing 236,000 people, or 6% of total employment in Hong Kong, it comes with little surprise that the region has made fintech one of its top...
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Ant Financial Worth US$75B, Considers IPO in HK Next Year, All Facts you Have...
Ant Financial, Alipay’s parent company and Alibaba’s financial-services affiliate, is said to be worth US$75 billion, according to Elinor Leung, the head of telecom and Internet research at CLSA in...
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Top 9 Wealthtech Startups in Singapore and Hong Kong
Over the last years, the growth of fintech has gained significant momentum globally, attracting US$19.1 billion in investment in 2015 alone. In Asia, fintech funding reached an all-time high,...
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Peer-to-Peer Lending in China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending has become a global phenomenon. In Asia in particular, alternative financing has experienced an explosive growth. Asia’s large population of smartphone-savvy and unbanked...
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ICO Report: Singapore, Hong Kong and Switzerland are leading
Initial coin offerings (ICOs), a fundraising method used by an increasing number of blockchain startups, have surged in popularity in 2017 with investment volumes growing exponentially. More than...
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Top 10 Fintech Accelerators In Southeast Asia And Hong Kong for 2018
In 2017, Asia Pacific attracted the largest amount of investment in fintech with a total of US$14.8 billion, according to a report by PwC and Startupbootcamp Fintech. The region represented 56% of the...
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6 Upcoming Fintech Hackathons in Singapore and Hong Kong
Hackathons, design sprint-like events in which programmers and others collaborate intensively on software projects, are surging in popularity in the fintech and blockchain spaces as banks and firms are...
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Singapore has shown massive support for the Belt and Silk Road initiative by the more recently economically open Chinese government, which has impacted many industries in Singapore including fintech....
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Singapore Banks Beat Hong Kong Counterparts In Digital Transformation
Singapore banks are beating their Hong Kong counterparts in terms of digital transformation, according to a research by labor market intelligence startup JobTech which analyzed the state of...
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Fintech Job Moves and the Hottest Open Positions in Singapore and HK
Fintech in Asia-Pacific is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 72.5% from 2015 to reach US$72 billion in 2020, according to a Frost & Sullivan report. But insights from...
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20 Upcoming Fintech and Blockchain Events in Asia Pacific to Attend in 2019
As Asia Pacific’s fintech industry rapidly grow, so does the events that surround it. With new events spawning every day it’s hard to keep track of which ones are worth your time and which ones aren’t....
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7 Early Stage Insurtech Startups from Asia We’re Keeping an Eye On
Asia-Pacific (APAC) has seen the emergence of a dynamic insurtech landscape, fueled by favorable market conditions, low insurance penetration and investors’ bullishness. Data from S&P Global Market...
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