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How does finance become frictionless? Examine digital banking, payment innovation, and lending platforms redefining financial access.

How do policies adjust to a data-rich world? Explore usage-based coverage, automated claims, and analytics guiding risk assessment.

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China

The insurer is ramping up investments even as earnings weaken and its shares trade at a discount to peers.

Ping An’s equity spree faces investor doubts as profits fall

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What sets the bar for convenience? Examine on-demand platforms, subscription models, and personalization transforming consumer expectations.

Consumer Economy

When do companies invite public investment? Understand listing criteria, underwriter roles, and regulatory steps defining initial offerings.

With Haidilao and Xiabu Xiabu trading at depressed valuations, Banu’s listing faces questions over growth, governance, and consumer demand.

Banu’s Hong Kong IPO runs into weak investor appetite for hotpot chains

China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

Explore East Asia’s thriving tech hubs, global electronics producers, and fast-evolving digital platforms shaping cross-border innovation.

East Asia

Nio, a Chinese electric car maker, specializes in high-performance EVs, battery-swapping solutions, and autonomous driving technologies.

What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

Mobility

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

Transportation

CEO William Li says the EV maker is emerging from a crisis deeper than in 2019, but now has the maturity to weather it.

After hard lessons, Nio’s latest quarter puts it on track to first profit

What streamlines global commerce? Examine digital wallets, cross-border remittances, and instant settlement technologies.

Payments

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Southeast Asia

Q&amp;A

Thornton shares about his hardest leadership lessons in and out of the workplace.

Stuart Thornton, CEO of hoolah, on cultivating vulnerability in the workplace and starting life afresh

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Annabelle Lim

Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

How do trustless ledgers transform industries? Investigate decentralized databases, smart contracts, and infrastructure powering secure transactions.

Blockchain

Thailand

Blockchain firm Synqa is behind Omise, an e-payment processor that offers payment solutions for websites and apps in Southeast Asia and Japan.

Thai firm Synqa wants to expand blockchain payment solutions in Southeast Asia | Startup stories

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Stephanie Li

India’s tech landscape blossoms with e-commerce startups, fintech innovations, and IT services shaping a growing digital consumer base.

India

PhonePe, a digital wallet in India, enables UPI payments, money transfers, and merchant transactions through a user-friendly app.

PhonePe

KrASIA The overall UPI transactions came down by 101 million to 2.53 billion in May from 2.6 billion in April.

Walmart-backed PhonePe maintains its lead in UPI payments amid declining transactions

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

Paytm, an Indian digital payments app, enables mobile transactions, bill payments, and financial products for millions of users.

Paytm

Paytm, India's most valued startup at USD 16 billion, has become the latest high-profile company looking to go public.

Digital payments firm Paytm eyes a USD 3 billion IPO this year

Ant Group, a fintech powerhouse, offers digital payments, wealth management tools, and micro loans, enabling borderless, mobile-first financial services.

Ant Group

The Chinese fintech sector is changing, and Ant Group needs to find new ways to grow its business.

Ant Group searches for direction in a new era of Chinese fintech

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AJ Cortese

Singapore

The company targets the enormous potential in the global cross-border payment market.

Singapore's Thunes bags USD 60 million, aims to become a global payments leader, CEO says

Singapore&#8217;s Thunes bags USD 60 million, aims to become a global payments leader, CEO says

How does credit flow online? Explore digital lending tools, alternative scoring, and services accelerating capital access.

Lending

What happens after acquisitions close? Examine deal structures, operational improvements, and exit strategies molding corporate outcomes.

Private Equity

Apis Partners invests between USD 30 million and USD 50 million in capital-efficient businesses in India, Southeast Asia, and African countries.

India’s buy now pay later' companies will move up the e-commerce value chain | Q&A with Udayan Goyal of Apis Partners

India’s buy now pay later&#8217; companies will move up the e-commerce value chain | Q&#038;A with Udayan Goyal of Apis Partners

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Avanish Tiwary

How do clicks replace aisles? Explore global marketplaces, payment solutions, and technology accelerating online retail’s growth.

E-commerce

What fuels startup ecosystems? Review funding rounds, investor strategies, and market insights guiding entrepreneurial growth.

Venture Capital

They are turning Singapore into their latest battleground in a pursuit for primacy in the region of Southeast Asia.

China’s tech titans wage war in Singapore in scramble for Southeast Asian markets

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Low De Wei

Amazon Pay app opened on the backdrop of Indian currency

Amazon leads e-commerce, streaming (Prime Video), and AWS cloud infrastructure, redefining retail, media, and data services.

Amazon

Amazon Pay has signed up close to five million merchants, it said last month.