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·Aug. 21, 2017

Lufax Becomes Profitable Ahead of Planned IPO

Ping An Insurance Group's online lender Lufax reported that it is now profitable and is hoping to keep that trend for the rest of the year; "Lufax's development is extremely robust. It actually turned around in the first half. We are very confident that it could stay profitable for the full-year," said Jessica Tan Sin-Yin, Ping An's chief operating officer and chief information officer, during the Chinese insurance group's earnings announcement; Lufax is the largest P2P lending platform in China with $225 billion of outstanding loans; according to their latest funding round in January the company is valued at $18.5 billion with 43% being held by Ping An; the company is planning to go public soon and according to CEO Gregory Gibb they have done a lot of homework for Hong Kong ahead of the potential listing. Source

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Asia/Pac News Roundup Online Lending

·Apr. 14, 2017

Dianrong Reporting Success in China’s P2P Lending Market

P2P loan originations for Chinese online lender Dianrong more than doubled from 2015 to 2016; the platform reported 2016 originations of 16.2 billion yuan ($2.3 billion) and the firm plans to continue growing its market share as regulations help the success of established P2P lending firms in China; Dianrong's co-founder and co-CEO, Kevin Guo, talked with Reuters about the firm's growth and China's evolving market; says smaller firms will have difficulty staying in business and that Dianrong plans to grow significantly in the near-term with a new funding round and the goal to grow loan originations by 50% annually over the next three to five years. Source

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Asia/Pac Fintech News Roundup

·Aug. 15, 2017

NEO, China’s “Ethereum”, Soars to $1bn Cap

The native asset of NEO, formerly known as AntShares, has risen by more than 12,000% in the last seven months, according to figures from Coin Market Cap; NEO comes mostly with similar capabilities vs ethereum, just that NEO's smart contract platform NEO 2.0 supports traditional programming language while ethereum has its own programming language, Solidity; this edge will be crucial to making it a better option over ethereum for running initial coin offerings (ICOs) especially for upcoming Chinese projects. Source

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Asia/Pac News Roundup Online Lending

·Aug. 16, 2017

P2P Lender Funding Societies Joins International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers

Funding Societies is the first P2P lender to join the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM); the IACPM was established in 2001 and is focused on supporting a community of members in the practice of credit portfolio management; the Association currently has approximately 100 financial institution members. Source

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·Aug. 3, 2020

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Asia/Pac Fintech News Roundup

·Sep. 5, 2017

Sequoia Capital, IDG to Invest in Bitmain

Sequoia Capital and IDG Capital are investing in Bitmain, the world's largest bitcoin mining company; Bitmain is seeking $50 million in funding to expand its artificial intelligence capabilities, after previously focusing on developing chips for mining; Bitmain claimed in August that the company is at a $1 billion valuation, and is planning an IPO. Source

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Asia/Pac Fintech News Roundup

·Mar. 29, 2018

DBS Bank Finds Bigger Profits in Digital Banking

Southeast Asia’s largest bank, DBS Bank, has been one of the most innovative and profitable; while presenting at a Credit Suisse investment conference DBS CFO Chng Sok Hui said they could raise the return on equity to 14.5 percent; the digital customers are three times as valuable to the bottom line of the bank; DBS has implemented chatbots and other innovative technologies to improve the digital experience for a customer who is increasingly using their phones to bank. Source.

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Asia/Pac News Roundup

·Nov. 28, 2016

Chinese Household Debt at Alarming Levels

Loose credit and consumers who are no longer averse to loans have contributed to the rise in household debt as a share of GDP; numbers have risen from 28% to 40% in the last five years; the share of household loans to overall lending hit 67.5% in the third quarter of 2016, more than twice the share of the year before; China's household debt as a share of GDP is half of what it is in the US, though if the current pace continues it will come close to equaling the US percentage in a few short years. Source

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Asia/Pac Fintech News Roundup

·Aug. 22, 2017

Global Times: China’s Internet Finance Sector Needs Urgent Supervision

Global Times recently comments on China's unregulated internet finance sector, stating that the online finance market requires cooling through tighter regulation after years of explosive but unruly growth; due to the lack of regulation, internet finance is often associated with financial irregularities, with many players operating without obtaining any license, for one; Global Times believes only a regulated internet finance industry can serve the real economy, and that chaotic development of internet finance will only pose risks to the country's financial stability. Source

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Asia/Pac Fintech News Roundup

·Aug. 21, 2017

Standard Chartered China’s Credit Cards Can Now Be Added to WeChat Payment Account

Standard Chartered China's credit cards can now be added to WeChat user payment accounts, marking the first foreign capital-backed bank to cooperate with Tencent this way; according to Tencent Financial Technology Group (Tencent FiT) Payment Platform Product Manager Chen Qiru. the cooperation will help WeChat Pay to acquire more international users and WeChat Pay will strengthen cooperation with international financial institutions. Source (Chinese)

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