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King Leung Head of Financial Services and FinTech at InvestHK
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced lockdowns and impacted economies globally. As we recover from the pandemic, the focus for international finance hubs is resilience and recovery. One of the most important success factors for fintech companies in the post-pandemic era is the ability to scale. From funding, to product development to distribution and m...
02 February 2021 /startups /markets
Hannes Van Rensburg Chief Commercial Officer at Clickatell
On the face of it, WeChat is just like any other chat platform. You download the WeChat app onto your mobile phone, register to use the service, and chat with any other subscriber of the service, just like Messenger, WhatsApp, or Telegram. Like other chat apps you can also share files and photos. However, that is where the similarity ends. By regi...
02 September 2020 /payments
Chris Holmes Senior Vice President at KAE Consulting
China’s FinTech industry is incomparable to the rest of the world. It is home to eight of the world’s leading FinTech unicorns, with an average value of $26.8BN – eight times greater than the average value of North American FinTech unicorns. But, behind China’s rapid FinTech development lies a country with unique circumstances, consisting of a lar...
24 January 2020 /regulation
Vaibhav Grover Senior Director at Sutherland
Introduction As per a report from Forbes1, from 1980 to 2010, the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean banking industries' assets expanded 20, 15 and 13 fold respectively. And, as per One Road research2, post 2010 the Asian banking markets have demonstrated continuous and consistent growth as compared to their counterparts in US & Europe. The b...
26 November 2019 /retail
Retired Member
Introduction Access to customer data has been a topic of conversation for many governments around the world in recent years, with many regimes around the world slowly moving towards legislation requiring data to be “opened up” to facilitate data sharing and portability. Here in Australia, there have been several waves of this with a Productivity Co...
15 October 2019 /ai
Many wealth managers are losing money because they do not understand client onboarding. Unfortunately, onboarding done wrong will drive clients away; because the onboarding process begins the moment, a prospect becomes a client. This failure drives clients away because onboarding is the formal process of bringing a customer into a platform. Unfortu...
17 September 2019
How Asian family firms need to behave to survive? How Wealth Managers can profit from this environment? Disruptive technology is the greatest threat and biggest opportunity for Asian family businesses. Technologies ranging from robotics to cryptocurrency to machine learning are reshaping almost all markets. For instance, cryptocurrency and mobil
04 September 2019 /inclusion
Overseas employment is a significant contributor to Asian economies and the well-being of workers’ families, who often depend on remittances to meet their basic needs. In 2017, Asia and Europe were the regions of origin for the largest numbers of international migrants — 106 million and 61 million, respectively. According to the April 2019 Migrati...
06 June 2019 /inclusion
People often say valuation is more an "art" than a science. Are start-ups' true valuations in line with media quotations, or what owners believe to be their value? It's high time to increase scrutiny on valuations and utilize a robust methodology to make valuations more accurate and consistent. Unicorns exist in both the fantasies of chi...
03 June 2019 /startups
Joey Kim
In stark comparison to how technologically advanced South Korea is (say for instance, introducing the world’s first 5G internet for smartphones) and being recognized as the most innovative country in the world according to Bloomberg’s annual Innovation Index, the Korean financial system is astoundingly outdated because of bank incumbents that are...
17 April 2019 /regulation
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