Breaking News

Project Ensemble Seeks Scale After Tokenised Deposits Go 24/7

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) co-hosted a seminar on Project ...

Read More

Iran Urges Washington To Accept 2-Day Proposal To End Hostilities Or Face 'Hell'

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi urged Washington to accept Tehran's two-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz ... Read more

AIHK Issues AI Governance Guidelines With Focus On Agentic AI

The Artificial Intelligence Association of Hong Kong (AIHK) has introduced voluntary guidelines to help organisations g... Read more

The House Moves To Impeach Hegseth. He Could Become The Trump Administration And GOP's 'Fall Guy'.

The House is expected to vote next week on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Iran war. Several Republic... Read more

Ping An Extends Purchase Order Financing To Service Trade

Ping An Digital Bank is extending its Purchase Order Financing product to businesses that provide services across borde... Read more

Kansas Senator-Elect And Bernie Sanders Urge Democrats To Focus On Problem-Solving Over Retribution

Kansas Senator-elect Adam Hamilton and former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders have urged Democrats to p... Read more

UOB To Roll Out China QR Payments On TMRW By Year End

UOB plans to launch China QR payments on its TMRW app by the end of 2026. Customers will be able to pay at over 100 mil... Read more

UK Minister Backs Data Center Expansion Despite Growing International Backlash To The Technology

The UK plans to continue expanding data center capacity as AI adoption grows. However, its growth minister says projects... Read more

StanChart, Ant International Pilot Tokenised Fund Liquidity Facility

Standard Chartered has piloted a facility that allows Ant International to access liquidity without waiting for its tok... Read more

Ossoff And AOC Tipped As Favorites For The 2028 Democratic Presidential Nomination At Progressive Convention

Newly reelected Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff and progressive titan Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led an informal Crooked Con st... Read more

SOOHOO.IO, Suhyup Bank Test Tokenised Deposit FX Remittances On Partior

Suhyup Bank is testing FX remittances on Partior’s multi-currency settlement network under SOOHO.IO’s Project Namsa... Read more

Anshul Sabherwal Becomes Moxs Third CEO In 6 Years

Mox Bank has appointed Anshul Sabherwal as its CEO, effective 10 November 2026. He takes over the Standard Chartered-ba... Read more

Animoca Brands Names Yat Siu CEO As Evan Auyang Takes Advisory Role

Animoca Brands has named executive chairman Yat Siu as CEO from 1 December 2026. The move comes as the company builds i... Read more

Hong Kong Fintech Week 2026: Agentic AI, Tokenization, Quantum Technologies Under The Spotlight

Hong Kong Fintech Week x StartmeupHK 2026 wrapped up on November 06, ending a week of dialogue, business exchanges, sta... Read more

Deutsche Bank, Ant Digital Explore AI Agents For Wholesale Payments

Deutsche Bank and Ant Digital Technologies are exploring how AI agents could take on a greater role in wholesale paymen... Read more