07/27/2017
Amazon Enters SE Asian Market
E-commerce in Southeast Asia is expected to grow significantly in the coming years.
FinTech
07/26/2017
Digital tech can't quite replace the private banker - yet
As digital applications continue to be integrated in all that we do, there is much talk about how this could affect the financial adviser role and in the extreme case, possibly remove them altogether.
07/26/2017
First robo-adviser in Asia to offer shariah-compliant investments
The strategy was developed by Singapore-based Farringdon Asset Management.
07/25/2017
Indonesian FinTech Launches App For Individual SME Investors
The company rolled out another mobile app this year
07/24/2017
Malaysia's top midcap performer in merger talks to boost profit
The biggest potential in terms of growth is going to be the energy side.
07/24/2017
IMDA bolsters SMEs’ growth, looks to launch SME Digital Tech Hub
SMEs Go Digital programme also aims to uplift whole sectors by working with influential partners to deploy emerging technologies.
07/24/2017
Singapore gains momentum in arms race for currency trading hub status
Recent success in attracting peer-to-peer lender Lufax underscores Singapore’s growing appeal as a hub for new financial technology trading and wealth management platforms
07/24/2017
Mobile payments: Is Singapore behind the curve?
Quite often across a number of emerging markets, perhaps only about 40 per cent of the market is a banked society, yet there’s access to mobile phones to 90 per cent of the population.
07/24/2017
Small Exchange: Singapore’s fintech investment return, UK travellers stung at airports and USD lags next to AUD
This week's currency news rounded up.
07/24/2017
Survival of the fittest using fintech
The need for the banking players to aggressively adopt fintech and to acclimatise themselves to the ever-changing pattern of customers’ needs, is pressing.
07/21/2017
GO-PAY Driving the Cashless Society in the Largest Southeast Asia Population
The award was handed over by the Governor of Bank Indonesia Agus D.W. Martowardojo.
07/21/2017
Thai Bank in Blockchain First
With an aspiration to establish a new business standard, KBank has developed a new blockchain network designed to help simplify procedures for the Bank's Letter of Guarantee process, and also tested the service on the Bank of Thailand’s Regulat
07/21/2017
Riding the tech wave
But this isn’t a run-of-the-mill fund.
07/19/2017
Aviva seeks digital disruption in Hong Kong as well as Hoxton
Sale of FPI arm allows group to focus on other growth opportunities in Asia
07/17/2017
Robo advisers set to rock investment world
They are able to do so by using a computer which can perform a much more sophisticated job than its human equivalent - at the touch of a button.
07/17/2017
Asia under-insured against cyber threats
Cybercrime is the second most prevalent economic crime.
07/17/2017
Israeli cyber firm Votiro raises $11.2 million from Aussie investors
The company has patented a process known as 'content disarm and reconstruction.
07/17/2017
Jenius digital bank in Indonesia mobilises with Finastra
Our philosophy is ‘do good, do well’ and we want to embody that in all aspects of the bank.
07/16/2017
Seeking growth in technology disruption
It has an experienced team of 20 investment analysts and managers actively managing its Global Technology Equity Strategy.
07/16/2017
Ping An to help spread adoption of artificial intelligence in China’s financial services industry
Ping An Insurance plans to accelerate adoption of artificial intelligence technologies across mainland China by bringing its latest advances to other financial services providers, even ahead of the company’s own subsidiaries.