Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Southeast Asia's Largest Bank DBS Plans to Launch a Cryptocurrency Exchange

The news about the newly created DBS Digital Exchange follows the announcement made by the payments giant Paypal last week.

Indian fintech startup GetVantage raises USD 5 million to finance direct-to-consumer businesses

GetVantage’s fintech platform analyzes companies’ financials which include data points such as their revenue, advertising, and marketing budget of the past one year.

Quantifeed forms Thai partnership

The Hong Kong-based digital wealth management services firm is providing the tech for a discretionary portfolio management platform in Thailand.

Bravura Signs Long-Term Contract with Aware Super

Aware Super is implementing an integrated ecosystem of Bravura products

PAG chooses Broadridge to modernise portfolio management technology

Broadridge will provide PAG with a highly scalable cloud-based system that will further enhance its capabilities.

Embracing the new reality. A Bank’s perspective by Nikos Karelos, Profile Software

The “new normal”, however, leads Banks to behave more like FinTechs.

Hong Kong has a huge role to play in supporting China’s fintech juggernaut, financial secretary Paul Chan says

Hong Kong, as the gateway to China and a rising regional fintech power, has much to offer and is poised to reap the rewards, says Paul Chan

Robo-advisors broaden sway amid pandemic

Singapore seeing steady shift to digital wealth management solutions

'AIZEN' AI banking-as-a-Service, Empowering data platform to launch lending services

These companies tend to partner with existing financial institutions and resell their financial products, but many fails to offer a seamless onboarding experience mainly due to partner banks' legacy processes.

Societe Generale Eyes Transformation Success With Incubator Launch

The bank has now opened the doors to its first incubator in Asia Pacific, with applications open until 15 November 2020.

Startups can apply for seed financing from S’pore fund

“In Malaysia, we see the crypto finance movement being adopted by young people in droves, meaning for many of these products, there is a large market to find product market fit, ”

ADB urges Southeast Asia to close gap, expand investments in digital infra

The pandemic led to the contraction of many economies around the world due to lockdowns that limited business activities.

Where Have All The Robos Gone?

Build it and they will come.

What advicetech trends can we expect to see in 2021? by Emily Chen, Iress

While consumer data rights legislation officially kicked off in July this year, it won’t be until next year we’ll begin to see some of the benefits of Open Banking.

AI, or a thousand shades of grey? by Russ Bryan

With AI, after a time we may start to receive different answers from the same inputs because it generally involves broader data sets and far higher volumes, with all the associated probabilities.

IMAS Calls on Asset Managers to Join Digital Accelerator Programme

Under the programme, asset managers will be paired with a shortlisted fintech with the most appropriate solution to the problem statement submitted.

Central bank digital currencies set to disrupt traditional banking

Pandemic-accelerated e-payments prompt regulator rethink, defence of public money

LINE launches ‘LINE BK’, Thailand’s First ‘Social Banking’ Platform

Beginning October 15, LINE BK was launched under the Wallet Tab in the LINE app in Thailand.

Hong Kong virtual bank WeLab is live with Temenos

Operating on multiple clouds at the same time gives WeLab increased operational resilience and disaster recovery capability and is a regulatory requirement of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority for new digital banks.

Welcome to the future by Andrew Walsh, CEO, IRESS

To perform at our best we need to have the discipline to switch off and focus - we’re humans, not machines.