Asia Financial Services News

Asia Financial Services News

  • Yasmine Masi
  • 1 March 2023
Fintech startups based in the APAC region have experienced a decline in VC funding across all stages, contributing to an overall YoY fall.
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 22 February 2023
Singapore’s Finance Minister Lawrence Wong delivered the 2023 Budget, pumping billions into the development of innovative local companies.
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 22 February 2023
The MAS and the RBI have launched a real-time payments link between Singapore’s PayNow and India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 22 February 2023
A new survey from digital CX solutions provider, TDCX, has found KYC checks to be the top challenge facing half of fintech respondents.
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 20 February 2023
The BDCB and MAS have reaffirmed the relations between the two countries at the fourth BDCB-MAS Bilateral Roundtable earlier this month.
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 20 February 2023
Interactive Brokers announced cryptocurrency trading is now available for Professional Investor clients in Hong Kong.
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 20 February 2023
Wipro Limited announced it has been featured on the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI), its fourth consecutive listing.
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  • FST Media
  • 16 February 2023
epay, an Australian-based subsidiary of global payments giant Euronet, has announced it will activate one of Asia’s leading payments solutions, Alipay+, across more than 8,000 retailers in Australia. Through the partnership, epay Australia-connected retailers will be able to accept payments...
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 16 February 2023
A partnership between Fintiv and Geoswift will work to enable digital remittance payments into Asia through mobile wallets.
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 16 February 2023
Japan-based JCB International Co announced it has reached the milestone of one million Rupay JCB credit and debit cards issued in India.
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 15 February 2023
Visa has announced leadership changes in the APAC region, with Chris Clark promoted to Chairman and Stephen Karpin as Regional President.
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 24 January 2023
Alipay's Five Fortune Card Collection campaign attracted over 10 million merchants to engage with Chinese consumers over the holiday period.
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 23 January 2023
The WEF’s 17th Global Risks Report found East Asia named ‘rapid inflation’ as the top threat to doing business in the next two years.
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 20 January 2023
Round 15 of applications for a share in six million dollars worth of grants part of an Australian-Indian research partnership has opened.
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  • Yasmine Masi
  • 19 January 2023
ATX Fintech Holding has partnered with Mastercard to launch a new bill management tool that streamlines bill presentment and payment.
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