Asia Financial Services News

Fintech startups based in the APAC region have experienced a decline in VC funding across all stages, contributing to an overall YoY fall.

Singapore’s Finance Minister Lawrence Wong delivered the 2023 Budget, pumping billions into the development of innovative local companies.

The MAS and the RBI have launched a real-time payments link between Singapore’s PayNow and India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI).

A new survey from digital CX solutions provider, TDCX, has found KYC checks to be the top challenge facing half of fintech respondents.

The BDCB and MAS have reaffirmed the relations between the two countries at the fourth BDCB-MAS Bilateral Roundtable earlier this month.

Interactive Brokers announced cryptocurrency trading is now available for Professional Investor clients in Hong Kong.

Wipro Limited announced it has been featured on the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI), its fourth consecutive listing.

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...

A partnership between Fintiv and Geoswift will work to enable digital remittance payments into Asia through mobile wallets.

Japan-based JCB International Co announced it has reached the milestone of one million Rupay JCB credit and debit cards issued in India.

Visa has announced leadership changes in the APAC region, with Chris Clark promoted to Chairman and Stephen Karpin as Regional President.

Alipay's Five Fortune Card Collection campaign attracted over 10 million merchants to engage with Chinese consumers over the holiday period.

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.

Round 15 of applications for a share in six million dollars worth of grants part of an Australian-Indian research partnership has opened.

ATX Fintech Holding has partnered with Mastercard to launch a new bill management tool that streamlines bill presentment and payment.