As a part of drawing the FinTech scene in Hong Kong, FinTechnews collects, tracks and analyzes hundreds of FinTech Startups. Today, the FinTech industry experiences the huge changes. So many few startups are slowly knocked out of the game while more and more players have been joining. After all deep learning into the startups’ performance, we filter and pack the...
In October 2016, a Brazilian financial company with branches in the US and the Cayman Islands got hacked. According to Kaspersky Labs, the hackers changed the Domain Name System (DNS) registry of all 36 of the bank’s online properties. ...
It’s no secret that Asia is leading the world in messaging with platforms like WeChat and Line. Yet when it comes to security, it’s a bit of a different story. In this episode, Jon Prial talks with Cédric Jeannot, a cryptography and security expert, and the founder and CEO of APrivacy, a company that provides the banking industry with information...
Cédric Jeannot, CEO of APrivacy joins BNN to explain why Canadian tech companies should be looking to set up in Asia and the key opportunities there....
Lioncrest Global has announced an agreement allowing it to use APrivacy’s secure communication solutions. In doing so, Lioncrest Global becomes the first investment and advisory firm to have access to the service usually reserved for large financial institutions such as banks and insurance firms....
Go big or go home, as the saying goes. Sixteen months after making the decision to open an office in Hong Kong, it’s clear which option APrivacy CEO Cédric Jeannot has opted for. Jeannot’s advice for companies here in Waterloo Region? Do the same. Go to Asia. Go big. And then visit home....
20 teams were selected to participate the Global FinTech Hackcelerator. The teams were evaluated by leaders from the financial industry from a pool of 655 global submissions from about 50 countries. They are each making deep inroads into transforming the financial services across the 10 broad topics and will present their solutions at the Hackcelerator Demo Day as well as...
A Hong Kong-based security firm providing secure means for banks to send private data to clients is seeing growing interest from the insurance industry as it claims its systems allow customers to create new revenue streams....
APrivacy is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, and the company focuses on financial services. While we originally started selling in New York, we began to identify macro trends in Asia....