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The Full List of Fintech Unicorns in Asia (2025)

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Micro Connects core financial tool, Revenue Based Obligations (RBOs), offers investors direct and diversified access to the daily cash flows of the global consumer economy. ZA Group Valuation: $1 billion ZA Group, founded in 2019 by ZhongAn Technologies International Group Limited (ZA Global), is a digital-focused financial brand.

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Taiwan’s Fintech Push: Harnessing Innovation and Expanding Global Ties

The Fintech Times

Taiwan, along with South Korea, Hong Kong SAR, and Singapore, forms the group known as the ‘Four Asian Tigers,’ renowned for their rapid industrialisation since the 1960s. These economies have since developed into fully advanced nations. In 2019, the FSC approved three consortia, led by LINE Corp.,

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US Economy Could Lose $10B To Chinese Travel Ban 

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economy $10.3 economy” and the virus, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told Reuters on Tuesday (Feb. Since the 2002 SARS outbreak, Chinese tourism to the U.S. million in 2019, including students, according to Tourism Economics , part of Oxford Economics. billion in lost tourism dollars.

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Fintech in China: Leading the Charge for Economic Progress in 2024

The Fintech Times

In 2024, China’s fintech landscape is playing an increasingly central role in its economic development, as the country continues to solidify its position as the world’s second-largest economy. China’s economy is diverse, with leadership across various sectors, including manufacturing, agriculture, and financial services.

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Data Dive, The Bad, The Worse And The Ugly Edition: Store Closures, Coronavirus And Bitcoin

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By comparison, 2019 saw 9,200 stores closed as brands like Payless ShoeSource, Fred’s, Gymboree, Charlotte Russe, Family Dollar, Forever 21 , Charming Charlie, Sears, Kmart, A.C. The Coronavirus Continues to Cut Down the Chinese Economy . billion stolen from millions of victims in 2019, over three times more than in 2018.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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Still, consumer adoption of telehealth prior to Covid-19 was slow: in July 2019, a JD Power survey found that only about 10% of US residents had replaced a visit to the doctor, urgent care, or hospital with telemedicine services in the 12 months prior. That growth, already slowing by late 2019, ground to a halt in the wake of the pandemic.

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Chinese Consumers Shut Their Wallets In Face Of Coronavirus 

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Despite the slowing economy that had Chinese officials hoping people would spend, the government is now advising residents to stay home as the deadly virus spreads. The virus — a genetic cousin of the SARS virus— comes at a time when 7 million Chinese tourists travel abroad during the Lunar New Year holiday in 2019.