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Visa Tap To Ride Launches On Guangzhou Metro

Visa has announced that its Tap to Ride contactless payment service is now available on the Guangzhou Metro, offering i...

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YZi Labs Leads US$50M Funding In Better Payment Network

YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs) has led a US$50 million funding round in Better Payment Network (BPN), a payment netwo... Read more

PAObank, OneConnect Join HKMA GenAI Sandbox To Tackle Deepfake Fraud

PAObank, a member of Ping An Insurance, and OneConnect, an associate of Ping An, have been selected for the second coho... Read more

HKUST, HKIC And Gobi Partners Launch Fund For University Start-Ups

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong Investment Corporation Limited (HKIC), and Gobi P... Read more

2025 Hong Kong Fintech Week: Key Highlights And Top Sessions To Attend

Hong Kong Fintech Week 2025 will return from November 03 to 07, showcasing the city’s strengths as both a leading int... Read more

HashKey Exchange Partners With Malaysias HATA For Southeast Asia Expansion

HashKey Exchange is expanding its Southeast Asia footprint through a new partnership with Malaysia’s HATA, uniting tw... Read more

Bybit Partners With DigiFT To Support UBSs Tokenised Money Market Fund

Bybit has announced a partnership with DigiFT to support UBS’s USD Money Market Investment Fund Token (UBS uMINT), th... Read more

Banks Will Soon Be Competing For Your AI Agents Approval

For more than a decade, banks have been busy “going digital”. They built apps, digitised forms, and automated obvio... Read more

Ethereum Co-founder Supports South Koreas Blockchain–AI Drive

Charles Hoskinson, co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain and CEO of Input Output, is turning his attention to South Kor... Read more

ShopBack Launches ShopBack Pay In HK With Octopus Integration

ShopBack has launched ShopBack Pay in Hong Kong, allowing consumers to earn and redeem Cashback directly in-store. As p... Read more

Anthea Raises US$22M For ETH-Denominated Life Insurance Launch

Anthea Holding, a global crypto-fintech group offering life insurance products denominated in cryptocurrencies through ... Read more

Weixin Reports 21% Rise In Cross-Border Payments As Holiday Travel Rebounds

Visa-free access to destinations such as Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand helped boost spending by Chines... Read more

HSBC Proposes To Take Hang Seng Bank Private With HK$155 Per Share Offer

HSBC announced that it, together with its wholly owned subsidiary, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limite... Read more

Who Owns Their Digital Identity, Owns The Future

Everywhere you look today, identity is the real currency. Whether you’re opening a bank account or applying for gover... Read more

Banking After Hours: Do Digital Banks Tackle Fraud Differently?

Fraud and scams are on the rise in Southeast Asia, from job scams and forced scam centers to deepfake impersonations an... Read more