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The investigation comes just a couple of days after the SoftBank-backed outfit’s spectacular New York market debut – the biggest US listing by a Chinese company since 2014
Kuala Lumpur’s move to open up its banking sector has seen licence bids submitted by some of the region’s biggest operators keen to tap into the south-east Asian nation’s tech-savvy population
Alipay and WeChat Pay could ‘fade like yesterday’s flowers’ as the Chinese government rolls out its CBDC payments infrastructure for...
Despite uncertainties globally as well as at home, Indian investors are increasingly routing their surplus funds to investing in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the crypto asset class as a whole.
New generation batteries for electric vehicles will be among the challenges thrown at the cutting-edge electronic brain; researchers in Germany...
The move by the Japanese firm to shrink its robotics business is a defeat for chief executive Masayoshi Son's plans to make it a leader in the industry
Regulators warn that Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Chinese-Canadian Changpeng Zhao, is not permitted to operate in the UK...
Lawyers for investors in a cryptocurrency exchange in South Africa say billions have disappeared after accounts were hacked – and...
Spending by financial service institutions on cloud computing is predicted to jump by more than three times to over $18 billion in...
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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PaymentsCan China Take Place of SWIFT System? Analysts Say ‘No’There is no global payment system that is strong enough to act as an alternative to SWIFT and enable Russia to evade sanctions
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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Market InsightsHere’s How China Can Win the Tech War With USAThe Chinese government is doubling down on incentives for innovation, which it believes to be the cornerstone of its future growth and international position.
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Fintech InsightsAsia Becomes the Epicentre of Global NFTsAsia is the frontrunner in the NFTs craze with Central and Southeast Asia accounting for 35% of the $22 billion in global trade
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