Fintech

Only 10% of the country’s middle-income families invest in the markets, speaking to a huge gap to be tapped for India’s stock trading apps.

Indian fintech startups raised a whopping USD 4.6 billion in funding across 160 deals between January and August 2021.

Several major mutual aid platforms have been suspended this year, while regulators are determined to rein in tech firms’ control of insurance-like services.

Curlec was one of the ten finalists of the Alibaba Cloud x KrASIA Global Startup Accelerator Malaysia Demo Day.

Indonesia currently has the highest adoption rate in Southeast Asia, but Vietnam will lead in 2026.

BitOasis is the Middle East and North Africa’s first homegrown crypto exchange, its team says.

Huobi has blocked new account registrations in mainland China since September 24.

Central banks collectively representing 20% of the world’s population are likely to issue general purpose CBDCs in the next three years, per a report by the Bank for International Settlements.