Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Midwinter recruits to strengthen cyber security strategy

A cyber audit service will test all internal IT resources and systems used across practices such as shared drives, internal emails, client portals, social media and public websites.

MioTech Partners with Silverhorn

Financial institutions store and process terabytes of market and transactions data every second, mostly through excel and outdated systems.

UOB fund transfer via social messaging apps

With the increasing popularity of e-commerce, UOB has also made UOB MyKey compatible with well-known e-commerce mobile apps like Carousell.

Aussie Banks in Blockchain Move

Using an industry-wide distributed ledger would enforce standardisation, making negotiations easier and faster for all parties, the banks say.

Impulse buying: Gen-Y face online shopping debt trap

The survey also found that millennials, who grew up with the Internet, mainly used their credit cards to buy airline tickets and book hotel accommodation.

Singapore Bank Coalition Gets Together To Advance P2P Payments

Users can get into PayNow through either a mobile banking portal or through the online portal of their bank of choice.

Asian Financial Center Targets Fintech Dominance

d’Haussy leads campaigns to promote Hong Kong as the premier Fintech Hub and attract best and brightest companies in the industry.

AI robo-adviser Aqumon the latest to launch in Hong Kong

They require human inputs, such as the broad asset allocation views based on macro market outlook.

China’s rich under-40s

On average, self-made billionaires’ wealth increased 29 percent.

Trading to National Stock Exchange available on IRESS

“It is essential that NSX provide companies listed on our exchange access to Australia’s broking network, and this has been easily facilitated through IRESS’ network.

Singapore finance sector sees boom in tech jobs, even as industry growth slows

Management consultancy Kelly Services estimates that IT on the whole will require between 15,000 and 30,000 more workers by 2020.

Infosys Finacle partners with Singapore-based startup

The Active.AI platform, integrated with Finacle, will let customers interact with software bots in natural language through voice and chat interface to access account information, pay bills, make transfers and access several other banking services

Tech still makes Asia tick

Despite the sector's recent volatility, Asia's tech firms have potential to expand

Over 90% Indian customers still prefer branch over online banking: Report

The results was based on in-person interviews with 5,368 retail banking customers conducted between February and April 2017 across 14 states and included both private and public banks.

Facebook wins Australian patent for Messenger payments

Facebook's payments patent, originally logged in the US, was filed in several markets across the world.

China leads as fintech adoption doubles in two years, and here’s why

As a result of the growth, fintech awareness has shot-up in recent years.

The digital wealth tsunami

Prabhakara says the consolidated view of their accounts helps clients gain insights into their assets and set better investment objectives.

Jack Ma's shadow looms large for southeast Asia's banks

Ma’s Ant Financial is signing up partnerships in region

Alibaba spending $1b to boost Lazada stake to 83%

Lazada will continue to operate under the same brand following the investment.

Can traditional banks keep up with fin-tech innovations?

Payments and transactions are being conducted seamlessly through mobile apps while banks increasingly go global, multi-service, low-cost and digital.

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