By Sean Murphy, COO The Connector. Over the last few weeks I had the chance to attend both Hong Kong Fintech Week and the Singapore Fintech Festival . A short four hour flight connects the two cities, yet the difference between the two cities is striking. For Fintechs thinking about market expansion or building cross border corridors, the contrast teaches you more about Asia than any analyst report ever could. Hong Kong remains the primary international gateway into China.

By Koen Vanderhoydonk, CEO The Connector. European fintech is heading into a more grown‑up, rules‑heavy era, and the winners of 2026 will be the ones that treat regulation, AI safety and ecosystem presence as superpowers rather than chores. Think less “move fast and break things” and more “ship fast, pass audits, and stay invited to all the right rooms”. The new rulebook era By 2026, the combined impact of MiCA , DORA , PSD3/PSR , the AI Act and the emerging FIDA open‑finan

By Daniel Biggs CEO & Founder, Privalgo  and Ronald Wallroth MD Privalgo  Europe London-based fintech Privalgo has secured a Dutch Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence from De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) , marking a significant milestone in the company's European expansion. The licence, granted on 1 August 2025, enables the launch of Privalgo B.V. in Amsterdam and allows the company to passport its services across all EU member states. We spoke with CEO Dan Biggs and Mana

By Mike Vanderroost & Pieter De Clerck - QuontX This year, the Singapore Fintech Festival marked its 10th edition, celebrating a decade of collaborative innovation in finance. With QuontX , a financial deeptech company based in Ghent, Belgium, we had the opportunity to experience this global highlight of the year within fintech, with the appreciated support of Flanders Investment & Trade . The technology QuontX develops for advanced financial risk analysis, is inherently int