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Several factors make Asian markets a prime breeding ground for new insurtech products and business models. For openers, the markets are huge

Securely accessible consumer transaction data is helping companies provide consumers with better financial offerings worldwide

How Smartphones are Revamping the Traditional Credit Scoring Model

The creation of a novel, global capital market powered by digital assets is underway, and as this landscape matures, it is providing for the creation of entirely new tradable assets

The concept is a reflection of the famous Ethereum cryptocurrency.

A Robocash study recently revealed that more than 60 per cent Asians used online credit, while 67 per cent used fintech services for payments

Despite the finance sector's rapid rate of change, the cost of non-compliance is colossal, and there's no question that financial institutions need to change their relationship with compliance

Knowing how to approach VCs is critical in succeeding in both gaining their attention and closing an investment

Asia's digital payments are expected to reach over $1 trillion by 2025, according to a Google-led study

P2P lending has become one of the key directions in the light of the initiatives promoting financial inclusion

Philippines is home to the world's most social-media-savvy population

Our infograph, based on Robocash's study, outlines countries in South and Southeast Asia that offer the best prospects for online consumer microlending at the moment

Global payments revenue in markets surveyed by Accenture is expected to grow to over $2 trillion by 2025, and banks can capture at least $500 billion of that, the study added

SME financing has been a problem around the world because banks are wary of lending to risky borrowers. But alternative lending is solving the issue slowly.

The case for financial services as a foundational layer

The study comes on the heels of Malaysia's 2020 budget report where the government outlined its initiative to stimulate e-wallets and e-payments systems in a bid to move to a cashless economy

A lapse in corporate governance can often lead to fraud, resulting in catastrophic consequences

But, with the rapid development and adoption of new technologies, all types of small-to-medium businesses now have the tools to connect with previously unreachable audiences

Embracing emerging tools like distributed ledger technology and layering it atop the core banking systems using APIs (application program interface) will allow banks to create a robust yet agile digital platform and disrupt their own business models, instead of sitting on the sidelines watching the challengers disintermediate them

A joint study spearheaded by Google says digital financial services are at an inflection point in Southeast Asia

Gone are days of waiting for months on end to hear back on loan applications, which only had a 50 percent chance, at best, of being approved - Robocash, a financial technology company that provides consumer lending and marketplace funding, claims it can process loans in up to 15 minutes.

Online gaming sector is undoubtedly a high-risk high-reward space for serious investors to be playing around

E-payment has become an indispensable and specialized tool for people across the world. How will it evolve in the next five years?

Many stakeholders think the word 'corporate' implies that a venture capital firm lacks independence. This is a myth and couldn't be further from the truth

Alami, a marketplace for Islamic financing, has secured funding in a round led by Singapore's Tryb Group

India and China both saw 29 deals in Q1'19