Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Bitcoin: Big in Japan

Bitcoin is recognised as legal tender in the world's third-biggest economy

Different approaches to bitcoin in Asia

Regulators in Asia have taken very different approaches to dealing with the bitcoin phenomenon

Avaloq’s chairman streamlines his role to focus on China expansion and possible listing

Francisco Fernandez, who also founded the Switzerland-based firm, has handed over the CEO job and is looking east to the ‘innovative companies’ in China’s financial sector

Asian Investors Drive Bitcoin Frenzy

The region’s family offices and wealthy individuals — and a smattering of asset managers — are big players in the cryptocurrency boom.

Fresh warning issued on bitcoin investments

According to Thomson Reuters, blockchain first emerged as the software system underpinning bitcoin.

Malaysian Fintech MyCash Online Set to Move Headquarters to Singapore

It offers easy, secure, and convenient online services to the foreign works who do not have access to online banking or credit cards

Is Digital Banking A Sexy Label, or Basic Human Right?

Private banks or wealth management firms used to be an exclusive club for the affluent.

Australian Banks Reportedly Freezing the Accounts of Bitcoin users

Reports are, however, not widespread, and it remains unclear as to why certain users seem to have been targeted.

Japanese Banking Giant Wants To Prevent Another Mt. Gox

The banking giant will keep matching records from cryptocurrency exchanges of customers who opt-in for the scheme.

South Korea Tightens Crypto Net

In September, the Financial Services Commission in Seoul announced initial coin offerings, or ICOs, were to be banned, saying trading of virtual currencies needed to be tightly controlled.

KB Asset Management Singapore Picks Eze Software

New Offshore Fund Taps Eze Portfolio Management & Accounting For Support

Company in focus: China's Ping An puts the 'tech' in fintech

Huge investments in AI, big data and more are bearing fruit for the insurer

The role of AI in the delivery of legal and private wealth advisory services

"But where I don't see artificial intelligence making a significant in road is when it comes to high net worth individuals,"

Japanese Bank to Offer Bitcoin Insurance

This insurance scheme could have a profound impact on cryptocurrencies in a country that reportedly accounts for 40 percent of the global market.

Malaysia to launch world’s first digital framework for Islamic economy in 2018

The framework is designed to attract investors and venture capital to fund halal businesses and to conduct their transactions and investments in compliance with Shariah laws and regulations

Hong Kong Prepares Real-Time Retail Payment System

Hong Kong is preparing to launch a real-time retail payment service in September, the head of the city’s de facto central bank said

Wealthy Bitcoin Buyers Targeted By Indian Tax Agency

Indian officials cited a surge in the popularity of cryptocurrencies as a prompt for the investigatory actions of the department

Industry names team up for cryptocurrency fund

The aim of the fund is to marry a traditional, recognised fund structure and long-term global markets experience with the new, emerging asset class of blockchain-based technologies, according to Hatfield.

Bitcoin finds unlikely ally in Asian watchdogs

Japan and South Korea now make up some half of global trading in the $300bln market

Bambu Makes Robos To Invest For Asia's Wealthy

In preparation for its biggest installment yet in May 2018

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