Financial Technology

FICO Survey: 71% of Taiwanese Prefer to Use Digital Channels to Engage with their Bank During Financial Hardship

Appeal of in-person branch banking fading fast post pandemic TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Preferred banking customer touchpoints across Asia Pacific - December 2020 Highlights: * 71 percent o...

2021-03-22 08:30 5919

RCLCO Fund Advisors Announces Multi-Year Engagement with Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan

RFA will provide market intelligence and analytics to support GPIF's strategic investments in the North American real estate market BETHESDA, Md., March 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- RCLCO Fund Advisors ("RFA") ( www.rclco.com/rfa), an affiliate of real estate strategy and analytics firm RCLCO (www.rc...

2021-03-19 21:45 5572

UnionPay Acceptance Network Expands to 180 Countries and Regions

SHANGHAI, March 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- UnionPay International (UPI) announced today that with significant progress inLatin America, UnionPay acceptance network has now extended to 180 countries and regions, over half of which accept UnionPay mobile payments. As many as 55 million merchants worl...

2021-03-19 09:40 2773

Quantitative Brokers Launches First Execution Algo For OSE's Derivative Markets - Spearheads QB APAC Growth Plans

SYDNEY, March 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantitative Brokers (QB), an independent provider of advanced execution algorithms and data-driven analytics for global futures and options markets, today launched its full suite of award-winning execution algorithms on theOsaka Exchange (OSE), the derivati...

2021-03-19 08:00 3306

Global fintech Railsbank launches in Australia

* Railsbank plans to develop embedded finance market opportunity in Australia SINGAPORE, March 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Railsbank , a leading global Banking as a Service (BaaS)  platform, has launched in Australia via a partnership with the country's first neobank, Vo...

2021-03-19 08:00 4536

Tonik Launches As First Neobank In The Philippines

MANILA, Philippines, March 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Tonik, Southeast Asia's first digital-only bank, launches as the first neobank inthe Philippines today. Tonik brings to the market a revolutionary and completely branchless way of banking on a highly secure mobile platform that sets out to funda...

2021-03-18 16:00 6096

Nordea Selects AxiomSL to Automate Risk and Regulatory Reporting in Nordic Countries

LONDON, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- AxiomSL, the industry's leading provider of risk and regulatory reporting solutions, today announced that it has been selected byNordea Bank, the leading Nordic universal bank, to support the bank's risk and regulatory reporting requirements inFinland, Swede...

2021-03-17 22:01 1410

TD Holdings Inc. Signs Letter of Intent with Chenzhou Dingmei Silver Co., Ltd. to Acquire Ownership of a Molybdenum Copper Ore in Kazakhstan

SHENZHEN, China, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TD Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: GLG) (the "Company"), a commodities trading service provider in China, today announced that the Company and Tongdow E-Trade Limited ("Tongdow E-Trade"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company have entered into a letter o...

2021-03-17 16:17 5358

Kincsem appoints CALLUM for Hyper-car design brief

ZUG, Switzerland, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- New digital luxury brand Kincsem has appointed CALLUM, led byIan Callum CBE, recently named GQ's Car Designer of the Year, to deliver the design of an all-new electrified hyper-car.

2021-03-17 14:00 2593

A Drop of Blood for Life: JULO's Blood Donation Action

JAKARTA, Indonesia, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- JULO, a fully licensed peer to peer (P2P) lending company fromIndonesia , organized a blood donation activity involving their employees at JULO's head office, 88 @ Kasablanka Tower A, on Monday ...

2021-03-17 12:59 2362

NexChange Group and Marita Group Co-Host Africa Blockchain Week Virtual Summit to Showcase Continent's Technological Leapfrog

HONG KONG, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The inaugural Africa Blockchain Week will launch fromJune 28th to July 1st 2021. NexChange Group, a blockchain ecosystem and venture builder and MARITA Group, an African conglomerate will combine forces to co-host this Virtual Summit. The event will fe...

2021-03-17 09:00 2898

Chargebee Pledges a $5B Fund for Startups - Offers its subscription platform completely free for upto $100K.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Chargebee, the global leader in subscription billing and revenue management, today announced that it will be pledging$5 billion dollars of revenue processing capability for early-stage startups. With this pledge, qualifying startups will be able to us...

2021-03-16 22:00 2283

FICO Survey: 68% of Singaporeans Prefer to Use Digital Channels to Engage with their Bank During Financial Hardship

SINGAPORE, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Preferred banking customer touchpoints across Asia Pacific - December 2020 Highlights: * 68 percent of Singaporean consumers prefer to use digital channels to engage with their bank during...

2021-03-16 08:30 6875

Rokt appoints Chief Product Officer to accelerate transformation of e-commerce

Rokt continues to invest in strengthening the team with the appointment of Hunter Yaw NEW YORK, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Rokt, the global leader in e-commerce technology, today announced the addition ofHunter Yaw as Chief Product Officer. Yaw will lead Rokt's product development and play a...

2021-03-16 08:00 1555

Solace Powers Mobile Payments on Standard Chartered Bank Korea's Digital Banking Platform

SEOUL, South Korea, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Solace has partnered with Standard Chartered Bank Korea (SCB Korea) to maximize the agility and efficiency of Standard Chartered's Straight2Bank (S2B), an online banking platform that allows businesses to make payments and track their transaction...

2021-03-16 07:00 5252

Validus' Indonesian arm Batumbu granted full digital lending license from OJK to further drive MSME financial inclusion

* Batumbu has disbursed over S$207 million to MSMEs since starting its operations inApr 2019, and recorded close to 650% annual growth last year * SME financing platform Validus has received regulatory approval in three markets acrossSoutheast Asia - the award-winning fintech is also licensed ...

2021-03-15 18:05 4799

Avoiding credit-risk related collapses: TradeFlow reduces risk in SME trade finance using innovative FinTech, non-lending, non-credit system

SINGAPORE, March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- When large credit lending firms collapse, huge shockwaves are sent throughout industry; the risk of contagion looms, threatening thousands of jobs, disrupting supply chains for essential goods, and increasing the barriers to credit that hits SMEs most. ...

2021-03-15 12:44 3405

CLPS Incorporation Announces Chairman's Letter to the Company's Shareholders

HONG KONG, March 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CLPS Incorporation (Nasdaq: CLPS) ("CLPS" or "the Company"), today released a letter to shareholders from the Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board"), the full text of which is provided below. All CLPS shareholders are encouraged to rea...

2021-03-12 21:30 4727

Cutting-edge Scale-Out Technology from Toshiba will Take Fintech and Logistics to New Level

TOKYO, March 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), the industry leader in solutions for large-scale optimization problems, today announced a scale-out technology that minimizes hardware limitations, an evolution of its optimization computer, the Simulation Bifurcation Machin...

2021-03-12 11:00 7205

Epidemic Sound brings in EQT Growth and Blackstone Growth to support its next phase of development

STOCKHOLM, March 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --            * EQT Growth and funds managed by Blackstone Growth invest USD 450 million in Epidemic Sound, the market leading platform for restriction-free music, in a transaction valuing the company atUSD 1.4 billion             * EQT Growth will, tog...

2021-03-12 01:15 6043
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