Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Dion launches a feature-rich Corporate Actions Processing Solution

Corporate actions continue to be an area of complexity, manual processing and high risk

Dion CFO Gopala Subramanium named “Fintech CFO of the Year 2019”

The awards are given solely on merit and are awarded to commend those most deserving for their ingenuity and hard work, distinguishing them from their competitors and proving them worthy of recognition.

Japanese Regulator Says Libra is Not Crypto, Gives the Green Light

The law firm said that Facebook is unlikely to face much in the way of push-back from Japanese legal authorities.

Silverlake and Japanese Fintech Launch Mytheo Robo Advisor

60,000 Japanese investors as users and US$300 million in assets

Open banking era set to begin in Australia on Monday

The effective use of data and access to new value-added services will slowly become a major decision-driver for consumers when it comes to choosing or changing who ‘owns their relationship’."

Millennials key to the future of Islamic banking

Sharia-compliant banks step up investments in digital space to cater to this demographic

Kenya says to broaden cooperation with China over financial technology

Early this week, financial sectors regulators from China and Kenya held fruitful talks in Nairobi on cooperation in the fintech sector.

Singapore to issue new digital banking licences to non-banks

Banks worldwide face increasing competition from technology firms

Avaloq CEO: Making Banks and Wealth Managers «Future Ready»

Many banks rely on our technology and services on their wealth journey, and working with them, we see that more and more data is produced every day, while an increasing amount of regulations impacts the preparation time for advice.

Singapore's fintech adoption almost triples in 2 years

outshining Singapore, China and India emerged global leaders with a 87% consumer fintech adoption rate.

Singapore's fintech adoption almost triples in 2 years

Globally, an average 89% of consumers are aware of the existence of in-store mobile phone payment platforms and 82% are aware of peer-to-peer payment systems and non-bank money transfers.

HSBC-backed startup aims to become LinkedIn of global trade

Bank chief John Flint plans to invest up to $17bn by 2020 on technology to boost growth

How Millennials and Gen Zers are Forcing Luxury Brands into E-commerce

Luxury is an emotional purchase, so why not allow a consumer to choose when or where they want to buy it?

Bravura will need round three to win GBST

Street Talk understands GBST's board will meet to consider Bravura's revised $2.72 a share all cash offer, which trumped an earlier scrip and cash proposal that valued its target at $2.50 a share.

JP Morgan launches cross-border digital payments in China

J.P. Morgan has been actively exploring how emerging technologies such as blockchain, AI

What's new with fintech development in Asia?

Investment sentiment continues to be ripe in the region with growth opportunities and Singapore establishing itself as a fintech hub

J.P. Morgan Launches E-Customs Payment Solution To Digitized Cross-Border Payments In China

The solution solves common pain points associated with the manual nature of such transactions.

AI to reorganise Asia's insurance landscape

The insurance industry in Asia is mostly welcoming of AI, and, according to Srikanth Venkatesan, Asia-Pacific head of insurance at Cognizant, the region is at the forefront of adopting newer technologies.

HSBC’s scrapping of minimum balance fee for Hong Kong clients may prompt rivals to follow as they brace for competition with virtual banks

Other major banks are likely to follow suit, say analysts, as they get ready to fend off competition from eight virtual banks due to launch this year

FinTech in Asia: Tale of Two Cities, a Hawksford insight

In the FT’s 2018 1000 High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific index, (Reference – FT article, April 2018), FinTech companies from the APAC region topped rankings.