GENERAL FINTECH

Payscape has teamed up with Atlanta’s Embassy National Bank to provide local businesses with the latest financial products and services. Read more: www.finextra.com

Maestrano discusses the unique and familiar challenges SMEs in Asia-Pacific face when looking to adopt FinTech like the cloud. Read more: www.pymnts.com

Luxembourg-based FundRock is the latest FinTech funds business to open a Dublin office, looking to fill 20 positions. Read more: www.siliconrepublic.com

Banks and asset managers are being hampered in their efforts to work with FinTech firms by the desire to own intellectual property (IP). Read more: www.finextra.com

Almost one in three banks and asset managers plan to buy a FinTech firm in the next 18 months as firms prepare for an increasingly technology-focused future. Read more: www.cityam.com

The U.S. Senate is considering legislation that would expand existing law providing businesses with cybersecurity in a move to protect SMEs. Read more: www.pymnts.com

Neal Cross, the chief innovation officer of DBS, shares his unique perspective on FinTech. Read more: www.cityam.com

Big banks may have scoffed when a gaggle of financial technology upstarts promised to reinvent their business. Now they want to buy them. Read more: www.bloomberg.com

Japan and South Korea are playing a catch-up game to Singapore when it comes to FinTech, but there is reason for optimism. Read more: e27.co

NASDAQ'S Asia-Pacific unit is confident FinTech-driven disruption in the financial services sector will fuel significant growth. Read more: www.businesstimes.com.sg