After a few months of a soft launch WeChat Pay, a QR code-based e-wallet finally makes its official…

Malaysia’s credit reporting agency CTOS recently launched a solution to enable banks to make real time credit decisions. This…

Between the 9th and 10th of August, key fintech players flew to Langkawi for Fintech News’ inaugural Fintech…

Besides fintech companies, telcos have been making big pushes towards growing and developing their e-wallets for Malaysia to…

Just recently, BNM has updated its consumer watchlist with risky companies that you shouldn’t interact with. In a…

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has ordered LendingStar to cease all activities with immediate effect, in a directive issued…

Funding Societies,  a Peer-toPeer (P2P) financing platform in Malaysia, has announced a partnership with Curlec, a homegrown FinTech…

TM ONE, the business solutions arm of Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) has announced their commitment in collaborating with…

I’ll admit, I wasn’t a believer of the Tabung Harapan crowdfunding campaign when it initially went up. I…

I don’t think there are any concrete lines we can draw about how many e-wallets in Malaysia is…

Last year, Hong Leong Bank Berhad launched its inaugural HLB LaunchPad with a vision of helping Malaysian fintech…

Note: We’ve update this report, the 2019 edition of the Fintech Report can be found here Following…

Both the political and the cryptocurrency spheres alike are talking about the Harapan Coin, a donation token endorsed…

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has announced that it welcomes new applications for Equity Crowdfunding (ECF) and P2P…

Sunway has just set up a venture capital fund named Sun SEA Capital LP. It’s proposing to spend up…

We have some ways to go before catching up to the top fintech nations, but the scene in…

Insurtech, is one of the latest buzzwords that has entered into the fintech lexicon. For those unfamiliar with…

I’ll admit, I was a tad disappointed when I first learned that robo advisors aren’t some form of…

Several years ago when the fintech wave began hitting the shores of Malaysia, several Malaysian banks like Maybank,…

OCBC Bank and Fundaztic, P2P lending platform licensed by the Securities Commission have entered into a collaborative agreement…

Malaysia’s Credit Guarantee Corporation (CGC), a government and commercial enterprise joint venture, has used FICO’s decision management technology…

Following Bank Negara Malaysia’s previous announcement of Tan Sri Muhammad Ibrahim’s resignation as the governor, reports have confirmed…

Fintech startups are multiplying and as we hear a lot about the successful ones, we often forget that…