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Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Digital Banks

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

Jack Ma-controlled finance platform still awaits notice from China regulator.

Ant Group wins Hong Kong clearance for USD 35 billion IPO plan [Update] | KrASIA

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Ant Group wins Hong Kong clearance for USD 35 billion IPO plan [Update]

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

KrASIA

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Nikkei Asia

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

With 6.4 million monthly active users, Blued is by far the most popular LGBTQ dating app in China.

How a Chinese LGBTQ dating platform blazed a trail to the US stock market | KrASIA

How a Chinese LGBTQ dating platform blazed a trail to the US stock market

Oppo is a Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communications company headquartered in Dongguan, China, known for its smartphones, Blu-ray players and other electronic devices.

OPPO

5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

VP says smartphone maker aims to be a top player after Deutsche Telekom deal.

China's Oppo makes play for European growth as Huawei slips | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Oppo makes play for European growth as Huawei slips

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

Consumers can monitor custom-made electric vehicle being assembled.

Hyundai's new Singapore R&D hub features helipad for flying cars | KrASIA

Hyundai&#8217;s new Singapore R&#038;D hub features helipad for flying cars

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

Long-awaited lineup to be unveiled in California on Oct. 13.

Apple ramps up production ahead of 5G iPhone debut | KrASIA

Apple ramps up production ahead of 5G iPhone debut

Investment

Chinese fintech's performance will set the tone for others coming to market.

Hong Kong bets on Ant's giant IPO to keep up listings bonanza | KrASIA

Hong Kong bets on Ant&#8217;s giant IPO to keep up listings bonanza

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

Conglomerate counters 7-Eleven with electronic payment and order system.

Vingroup app digitizes mom and pop shops in Vietnam | KrASIA

Vingroup app digitizes mom and pop shops in Vietnam

ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

Reliance

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

Pandemic fuels US investor's deal making but political tension raises risks.

From Jio to ByteDance, KKR bets on Asia's 'local' tech champions | KrASIA

From Jio to ByteDance, KKR bets on Asia&#8217;s &#8216;local&#8217; tech champions

Samsung

South Korean tech giant seen benefiting from ongoing US-China conflict.

Nikkei Asia

Ant Group wins Hong Kong clearance for USD 35 billion IPO plan [Update]

How a Chinese LGBTQ dating platform blazed a trail to the US stock market

China’s Oppo makes play for European growth as Huawei slips

Hyundai’s new Singapore R&D hub features helipad for flying cars

Apple ramps up production ahead of 5G iPhone debut

Hong Kong bets on Ant’s giant IPO to keep up listings bonanza

Vingroup app digitizes mom and pop shops in Vietnam

From Jio to ByteDance, KKR bets on Asia’s ‘local’ tech champions

Samsung’s profit jumps 58% in third quarter as Huawei ramps up chip orders