The investment group seeks stakes in fintech lending companies as it grows into a payment player for acquirer banks.
Crypto players are the worst affected among small-business struggles to access bank accounts, but open banking might help.
The bank is using technology from Finastra to win retail and SME customers in Myanmar.
Accessing data is one of several challenges big Chinese P2P players face if they try to export their models overseas.
Audit results should give ASTRI the green light to turn PoCs on cyber-security into projects with banks and HKMA.
Standard Chartered's group chief information officer, Michael Gorriz, explains the strategy behind the bank's work with KYC Chain and initiatives such as Singapore's PayNow.
IncomLend, a startup online marketplace for loans to small companies in Asia, is now looking to scale via large corporations and banks.
UBS Wealth Management is piloting a PoC to enable monitoring of chat messages between relationship managers and clients.
The head of fintech investments at IFC, the private-sector arm of the World Bank, says bitcoin, not blockchain, is the important thing.
P2P platform China Rapid Finance listed on Nasdaq by accepting a nearly 40% discount on the share price to investors.