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Indonesia To Expand QRIS Cross-Border Payments With China And South Korea

Bank Indonesia (BI) aims to expand the use of the Quick Response Code Indonesian Standard (QRIS) for cross-border payme...

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Chocolate Finance Expands Into Hong Kong

Financial service platform Chocolate Finance has officially launched its operations in Hong Kong, expanding from its ex... Read more

Fiserv To Bring Clover Payments Platform To Japan

Fiserv, a global provider of payments and financial services technology, has announced a strategic partnership with Sum... Read more

Face Pay Vs. Tap To Pay: Which Method Will Win Asia? Ft Sam Su, SUNMI

We’ve moved from Cash to Cards, and Cards to QR. Is your face the next wallet? Or will “Tap to Pay” on smartphone... Read more

Hong Kong Updates Banking Guidelines For Elderly And Disabled Customers

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Hong Kong Association of Banks (HKAB) announced that the banking sector... Read more

HKMA Alerts Public To Social Media Impersonation Scams

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) cautioned members of the public to remain vigilant against fraudulent social me... Read more

Airwallex Completes Paynuri Acquisition To Enter South Korea

Airwallex has completed the acquisition of Paynuri, gaining the licences required to enter the South Korean market. Pay... Read more

Uncovering RongHai: Huaweis 150-Partner Secret Sauce For Intelligent Finance

In this interview, Fintech News Network Chief Editor, Vincent Fong sits down with Roger Wang (Huawei) and Wizard Hee (N... Read more

South Korea Uncovers Major Crypto Laundering Ring

South Korea’s customs authorities said on Monday (19 January) that they have uncovered an international crime ring ac... Read more

Why Hong Kongs Trade Finance System Needs An Overhaul Through Project CargoX

For an economy where trade accounts for more than three times its GDP, inefficiencies in trade finance are a critical r... Read more

Visa Enables Apple Pay For Chinese Cardholders Overseas

Visa announced that it will support Chinese-issued Visa cards on Apple Pay for use at overseas Visa-accepting merchants... Read more

WeLab Raises US$220M In Series D Financing

WeLab has closed a US$220 million Series D strategic financing round, comprising a mix of debt and equity. The raise is... Read more

Why Cross Border Payments Fail SMEs And How XTransfer Fixes It

Digital banking in Asia was supposed to change the world. Five years later, did it live up to the hype? In this in-dept... Read more

Sony And Bolttech Launch My Sony Care+ In HK

Japanese electronics group Sony has partnered with insurtech company bolttech to launch My Sony Care+, an embedded prot... Read more

Hong Kong Hosts 19th Asian Financial Forum On 26-27 January

The Hong Kong Government and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) will co-organise the 19th Asian Financial ... Read more