Latest: Fintech News

Officials in Shenzhen in China's southern Guangdong province are giving out millions in cash via the digital yuan to stimulate its pandemic-hit economy and use of the digital currency

US Senator Mark Rubio says companies marketing surveillance technologies developed in China should not be allowed near critical US infrastructure, such as a Florida rail line

China will spend more than $52 billion this year on testing, new medical facilities, monitoring equipment and other anti-Covid measures, which will benefit about 3,000 companies

From Google, Amazon and Microsoft to Alibaba and Tencent, US and Chinese tech firms have set up or are building dozens of data centres in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia

Scientists in Australia and other countries with a keen interest in Antarctica have been closely following China's activities in the southern polar region

Stepn lets users buy and trade NFTs and in-game crypto by walking or running in the real world and they then convert in-game earnings to other crypto or cash

The firm had raised $40 million in its previous round, a year earlier. The cryptocurrency lender and asset manager is now valued at $2 billion.