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Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak

Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble

Cyber-crime21 Mar 2023 | 4

SVB collapse's mix of money, urgency and uncertainty makes it irresistible to scammers

Phishing, dodgy domain names, and sophisticated attacks already deployed

Security15 Mar 2023 | 1

Two tech-centric banks strike trouble, spooking markets

Silicon Valley Bank sold billions in bonds as startups struggle, crypto-centric Silvergate Bank just gave up

Legal10 Mar 2023 | 12

India teases AI plan to 'catalyse the next generation of the internet'

Minister wants to release 'one of the largest datasets in the world'

AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 5

Hong Kong to crypto exchanges: get a securities broker's licence, or go home

Crashes like FTX and Terra have made regulation necessary, say authorities, even as Territory seeks to become a virtual asset hub

Legal21 Feb 2023 | 7

Euronext says non, nein to US cloud providers services as rivals sign up

Data sovereignty and compliance gives CEO pause for thought as Deutsche Börse AG jumps in bed with Google

PaaS + IaaS10 Feb 2023 | 6

NARROWER TOPICS

India bans 232 Chinese lending and betting apps

And a few non-Chinese lending apps that appear to have been scooped by accident

Legal07 Feb 2023 |

Alibaba's Jack Ma out as boss of fintech Ant Group

'Corporate governance optimization' sees founder's role reduced, but not in pursuit of a listing

Legal09 Jan 2023 | 3

Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too

Opinion Fintech, you're better than this. Time to concentrate on more helpful stuff

Networks23 Dec 2022 | 150

Financial authorities fine UK bank nearly $60m for platform migration disaster

Doesn't it make your current migration at work look like a walk in the park though

Systems20 Dec 2022 | 18

Singapore suggests blockchain to speed cross-border payments

Monetary Authority director calls current system 'not fit for 21st century'

Software11 Oct 2022 | 9

Indian authorities probe Singapore gaming payments outfit Coda

Claims kids unwittingly click up huge bills in games, only for their cash to fly offshore

Legal29 Sep 2022 | 2

Grab – Asia's Uber – knows customers and drivers so well it can vet them for loans

Understands income streams, seasonality of sales, how hard drivers work, and safety records

Applications27 Sep 2022 | 4

Obscure Asian fintech AMTD Digital becomes the new GameStop

Social media suspected as shares surge 20,000 percent and company admits there's no good explanation

Offbeat04 Aug 2022 | 16

Bank of Google? Not exactly. But fintech's future is in Big Tech's ecosystems

Comment Silicon Valley and financial institutions may be increasingly inseparable

Personal Tech05 Jul 2022 | 10

How can we make the VC world less pale and male, Congress wonders

'Combating tech bro culture' on the agenda this week for US House committee

Legal29 Jun 2022 | 23

Xi Jinping himself weighs in on how Big Tech should deploy FinTech

Beijing also outlines its GovTech vision and gets very excited about data

Legal24 Jun 2022 | 11

Alibaba continues international expansion – adds two datacenters and a bank

Bit barns in Saudi Arabia, all-digital bank in Singapore

Off-Prem08 Jun 2022 |

Fintech platform flaw could have allowed bank transfers, exposed data

Fintech provider flaw could have hit dozens of U.S. banks, says Salt Security

Security07 Apr 2022 | 9

Blockchain powered stock market rebuild started in 2017 delayed again

COBOL and Itanium to keep the job well into 2023 – past original 2020 go-live date

Software28 Mar 2022 | 24

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