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Securing China’s commitment to reduce plastic production will be crucial for an effective treaty to combat plastic pollution.

Global plastic treaty talks could hinge on China pledging to curb plastic production | KrASIA

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Global plastic treaty talks could hinge on China pledging to curb plastic production

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Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

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

India

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Sfermion and Amber Group lead USD 1.8 million investment in Anichess, 11 China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Sfermion and Amber Group lead USD 1.8 million investment in Anichess, 11 China and India deals, and more

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Deals in brief: BillEase and Prep secure funding, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional initiate MYR 3 billion fund with two partners, Thunes to acquire Tilia, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: BillEase and Prep secure funding, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional initiate MYR 3 billion fund with two partners, Thunes to acquire Tilia, and more

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

KrASIA | Fintech Archives

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

Q&amp;A

DeeMoney’s Rasmegh Srisethi and the passion of an early tech entrepreneur: Profiles in Tech | KrASIA

DeeMoney’s Rasmegh Srisethi and the passion of an early tech entrepreneur: Profiles in Tech

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AIRP

The company wants to shake up 's wealth management sector with innovative investment offerings.

Vietnam fintech startup Finhay raises funding from Acorns co-founder, others | KrASIA

Vietnam fintech startup Finhay raises funding from Acorns co-founder, others

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Thu Huong Le

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

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

Ant Financial already offers over 4,000 wealth management products.

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial and Vanguard launch robo-advisor on Alipay | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial and Vanguard launch robo-advisor on Alipay

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Song Jingli

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

Mobile commerce

JD.com's NFC payment tool JD Shanfu took the largest share in this niche market.

China's mobile payments hit USD 8.4 trillion, NFC payments see 50% increase | KrASIA

China&#8217;s mobile payments hit USD 8.4 trillion, NFC payments see 50% increase

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

This follows MatchMove's recent announcement to bid for a digital full bank license in .

MatchMove acquires strategic stake in e-commerce platform Shopmatic | KrASIA

MatchMove acquires strategic stake in e-commerce platform Shopmatic

Deep Tech

The firm invests in companies covering life sciences, technology, media, telecommunications, as well as consumer and financial services.

Vickers Venture Partners secures USD 200 million for sixth fund | KrASIA

Vickers Venture Partners secures USD 200 million for sixth fund

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Tech in Asia

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

Fenfu will allow users to acquire goods and repay the bill at a later date.

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent launches new payment product, raising competition against Ant Financial | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent launches new payment product, raising competition against Ant Financial

According to one industry ranking, OceanBase beats Oracle in terms of performance.

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial launches SaaS version of its internal database infrastructure to increase tech service revenues | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial launches SaaS version of its internal database infrastructure to increase tech service revenues

Urban consumers in the country are increasingly using e-wallets to settle smaller payments.