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In a recent chat with a leading figure in one of the global internet giants, he threw me this thought: “To be a global player,...

While all the governments are encouraging P2P to be primarily helping SMEs with credit for growth, the founder of one of China’s largest fintech...

Bitcoin seems to be all the hype now - from Main Street to Wall Street. I get calls now and then to talk about Bitcoin,...

In a recent Fintech investor brief in Singapore, where more than 50 investors participated, almost nobody was aware of the huge gold rush that...

We have always been arguing that with the giants such as Alibaba, Lazada and JD.com entering the Southeast Asian market, smaller e-commerce platforms will...

If you've been closely following Chinese internet industry, you might notice a very interesting phenomenon: Many companies use animals or plants in their logos,...

Who owns the future? The governments or the internet giants (or someone else)? In the first two parts of this analysis, we discussed why we...

Plausible and implausible use cases for payment adoption in Southeast Asia In Part 1, we discussed why we couldn’t exactly replicate Alipay and Wechat in...

Can someone replicate the success of Wechat Pay or Alipay? Our Chinese entrepreneur friends believe that the low penetration of banking services in South...

I stopped my car to walk into this small grocery shop near the roadside to buy some bottled water. This was in the countryside...