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The firm’s Larry Thompson says it will release a white paper with lessons learned from its blockchain build.| Digital Finance
The firm’s Larry Thompson says it will release a white paper with lessons learned from its blockchain build.| Digital Finance
Major blockchain initiatives prove the technology offers privacy and scalability, but banks waiting to see which models prevail.| Digital Finance
Banks on quest to boost profits by digitizing clients’ access to data, but are investors ready?| Digital Finance
It’s good that there isn’t turbulence in the derivatives market. Maybe.| Digital Finance
SWIFT, SGX and several banks share their vision for automating proxy voting via blockchain.| Digital Finance
The bank partners with Broadridge to put investors’ votes at corporate AGMs onto distributed ledgers.| Digital Finance
Hong Kong Exchanges wants others to begin testing its blockchain-based prototype for Stock Connect.| Digital Finance
The fast-growing insurtech shows the promise and the challenge of digitally embedded insurance.| Digital Finance
Setting standards that determine how AI can be used requires a scale that even the biggest banks can’t muster.| Digital Finance
DigFin | Digital finance, fintech, and digital assets for Asia| Digital Finance
The rapid rise of interest rates has put fintech credit platforms to the test, with the survivors set to thrive.| Digital Finance
It’s about your people: Zurich's Luz Grande Vega on AI's enhancing or eroding institutional know-how. The post Zurich: the surprise about using AI in insurance appeared first on Digital Finance.| Digital Finance
Musheer Ahmed discusses a blueprint by HK Web3 Harbour to align business with crypto regulation. The post HK’s Web3 future | Musheer Ahmed, FinStep Asia appeared first on Digital Finance.| Digital Finance
An aggressive drive to digitalize the business has underpinned the insurer's rapid revenue growth. The post Sri Lanka’s HNB Assurance launches new core platform appeared first on Digital Finance.| Digital Finance
DigFin asks which business models are best (and worst) positioned for the next five years in APAC payments. The post Report: APAC digital payments winners & losers appeared first on Digital Finance.| Digital Finance
The leaders in Indonesia P2P lending expect to gain ground as troubles rock the most vulnerable borrowers.| Digital Finance
The fintech ceases consumer-account aggregation of Hong Kong banks, but it’s a different story for SMEs.| Digital Finance
Shanghai's FinVolution is making a drive in Southeast Asia using big data and AI honed in China's fintech world.| Digital Finance
Banks and crypto startups are preparing for quantum computers' impact on the safety of digital assets.| Digital Finance
DigFin reads up on the quantum mechanics that are poised to transform finance, and much else.| Digital Finance
From fractionalization to tokenization, Rahul Banerjee discusses innovating in an asset class hard to digitize. The post Bonds digitized for all | Rahul Banerjee, BondbloX appeared first on Digital Finance.| Digital Finance
Insurance executives have caught the AI bug, but more for efficiency gains than imagining new business models. The post Insurance AI: new business, or old wine in new bottles? appeared first on Digital Finance.| Digital Finance
SWIFT is now working on protecting payments data, but it’s hard to prepare for a risk banks can’t see.| Digital Finance
Regulators take on Paytm Payment Bank – and India’s biggest fintech founder, Vijay Shekhar Sharma.| Digital Finance
A deal with incubator HKSTP aims to get startups “big-bank ready” – and to make HSBC start-up ready.| Digital Finance
Financial institutions in Asia Pacific are spending more than ever to fight financial crime. Where’s it all gone?| Digital Finance
The VC model has not worked well for a fintech segment that requires patient capital. Can it change?| Digital Finance
AI promises more accurate, predictive catastrophe models, but data barriers in Asia remain high.| Digital Finance
A Singapore-based startup rapidly attracts VC funding for a neobank-like stablecoin service.| Digital Finance
First Digital’s business aspirations amid its conflict with Justin Sun illuminate the future of stablecoins.| Digital Finance
The digital bank is on track to be top- and bottom-line profitable by the end of 2025, says founder Greg Krasnov. The post Tonik’s decacorn play for Philippine borrowers appeared first on Digital Finance.| Digital Finance
Neal Cross, fintech investor/founder, discusses cultural change in banks and fintechs amid digital upheaval. The post Neal Cross | Digital’s cultural change | VOX Ep. 94 appeared first on Digital Finance.| Digital Finance
DigFin asks three questions to determine how excited or skeptical we should be toward stablecoins.| Digital Finance
He tells DigFin the difference between a mature online broker vs his startup days with 8 Securities.| Digital Finance
The boom in Asian wealth management is helping wealthtechs grow under the noses of banks.| Digital Finance
Co-founder Nikhilesh Goel explains the logic of selling part of the credit fintech’s business to GSX Bank.| Digital Finance
Embedding itself into the NTUC ecosystem has fueled the virtual bank’s growth and asset expansion.| Digital Finance
The fintech relies on a ground game to win merchants for acceptances, payouts, and even treasury.| Digital Finance
The digitalization of large-enterprise commerce means B2B correspondent banking is now up for grabs.| Digital Finance
LianLian's Hong Kong hub is activating cross-border partnerships and exploring use of stablecoins.| Digital Finance
Five newly minted digital banks must balance Bank Negara's goals of inclusion with business realities.| Digital Finance
Adoption of the Australia Stock Exchange’s new post-trade infrastructure is likely to be slow, as many remain unconvinced.| Digital Finance
CEO Dominic Stevens highlights there’s more “beyond what the media will report on DLT”.| Digital Finance
The first chance to access the exchange’s new build heralds profound changes to come.| Digital Finance
InDrive is using Fingular’s lending and Ammana’s money operations to keep its Indonesian drivers on the road.| Digital Finance
Plus: the fintech spaces that A2D’s Ankit Upadhyay says can add value in India and Southeast Asia.| Digital Finance
The new sovereign wealth fund signs up its first external asset managers, but questions of its mission remain.| Digital Finance
The founder of Higala raises funds to revitalize the Philippines’ overlooked instant payments for rural banks.| Digital Finance
Prudential group chief information officer Ashley Veasey outlines the insurer's strategy for change.| Digital Finance
Tookitaki's co-founder Jeeta Bandopadhyay discusses how AI is transforming banking compliance.| Digital Finance
And they want the central bank to mandate data sharing. But you can’t always get what you want.| Digital Finance
Chris Perry of Broadridge describes how agentic AI is beginning to transform capital markets.| Digital Finance
HKMA evaluates how some FI blockchain projects advance while others remain stuck in pilot mode.| Digital Finance
Real-world asset tokenization has become a Mexican standoff among tradfi, degens, venues, & regulators.| Digital Finance
The digital bank’s $250 million Series D shows that who sits on the cap table is more important than the $$$.| Digital Finance
Wenbin Wong, the head of GrabFin SG, says cross-border payments may be the platform's next move.| Digital Finance
A minor monarch expresses displeasure in how royal Houses have tokenized his green bonds.| Digital Finance
When RWA rebels try to overthrow the regime, the royal houses fight back and the monks go on crusade.| Digital Finance
FCX platform to create a de-facto second board to ASX by tokenizing ownership in private companies.| Digital Finance
The new schedule is meant to placate brokers and issuers in Australia wary of ASX’s blockchain ambitions.| Digital Finance
The insurance industry is targeting rich people, but distribution will require help from insurtech partners.| Digital Finance
But usable for what?| Digital Finance
Amanda Cassatt and Caroline York talk about how tradfi is adopting the marketing language of crypto.| Digital Finance
Experience from around the world is generating some best practices for open-banking regimes.| Digital Finance
Arati Varma of QBE Asia says limits in Asia are growing, but the field remains risky for the insurance biz.| Digital Finance
Jack Booth of TON Society, which supports Telegram-linked crypto projects, argues its real-world uses.| Digital Finance
StraitsX is using stablecoins to manage two-way FX between AliPay+ travelers and merchants on GrabPay.| Digital Finance
The use of AI predictive tools can scale insurance companies’ business, if they can get the right data.| Digital Finance
Ducera Partners' Tom Thurston describes how the firm is using AI to reinvent investment banking and VC.| Digital Finance
The company wants to turn its Asia expertise into a tool for hedge funds and quants to anticipate policy.| Digital Finance
The review by Accenture that killed the DLT project details the problems behind ASX’s CHESS replacement.| Digital Finance
From virtual to traditional banks, going digital begins with the cloud – and evolves through partnerships.| Digital Finance
The private-markets operator is applying for a license to break ASX’s monopoly on clearing and settlement.| Digital Finance
HKMA's Arthur Yuen says the Silicon Valley Bank failure holds alarming lessons about digitizing finance.| Digital Finance
The market for data centers is booming, but artificial-intelligence use cases are an energy nightmare.| Digital Finance
Insurance companies are able to adopt generative AI without insurtechs. Will this change?| Digital Finance
CEO Tat Lee says innovation, not deposit size, will determine whether a virtual bank can succeed.| Digital Finance
Do virtual banks need to be primary deposit accounts, and if so, how will they get there?| Digital Finance
Interest rates are just one challenge to bringing China-style alternative credit scoring to Hong Kong SMEs.| Digital Finance
CEO Barbaros Uygun says the virtual bank can become a global leader like Revolut, NuBank and KakaoBank.| Digital Finance
The central bank’s payments experts discuss the challenges to building upon bilateral cross-border linkages.| Digital Finance
The startup plants flags in Asia on the heels of a $21 million funding round and a Tokyo Stock Exchange deal.| Digital Finance
Innovation won’t be enough for these banks to become the next KakaoBank, Revolut, or Nubank.| Digital Finance
The only application of generative AI that banks and fintechs can count on being deployed right now is fraud.| Digital Finance
One clue is whether the fintech giant decides to roll out credit-based services to Asia Pacific markets.| Digital Finance
