Financial Services News

The first robo-advice fintech conference in New Zealand will be held in Auckland in November.

Bank of Baroda has joined with fintech start-up, Fisdom, to provide wealth management services.

Lahore-based fintech Finja has raised more than $1M in a bridge seed financing round.

Consumer confidence in the UAE is among the highest in the world, as measured during the second quarter of 2016.

Clients in Asia, Africa and the Middle East are set to benefit from a roll out of fingerprint and voice biometric technologies from Standard Chartered.

Nepal Electronic Payment Systems Limited (NEPS) has deployed BPC Banking Technologies’ SmartVista suite.

Fintech innovation is on track to produce $2 trillion in digital payments revenue globally by 2020, according to GSMA.

Westpac will enter into collaboration with a Sydney-based venture capital firm, continuing the bank’s initiatives in fintech funding.

Payments giant Visa will launch a local contest for fintech start-ups in Australia and New Zealand to encourage application development for its network.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will introduce a major awards program to step up its efforts as a leader in the Asia-Pacific region.

New Zealand’s brightest young entrepreneurs will be offered an industry insight teaser into the Vietnamese tech sector.

Telekom Indonesia and Telstra are expanding their partnership and will sign an MOU for investment prospects in South-East Asia.

Sydney-based fintech hub Stone & Chalk has been labelled a ‘springboard’ for growth, after three of China’s most promising fintechs began a mentoring program there.

Thailand’s central bank is calling for stricter regulation of the fintech sector to protect consumers.

The U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration (ITA) has released a new report naming China as the biggest export market for next year.