2016 has not been a good year for China’s peer-to-peer lending industry. The year began with the collapse of Ezubao (e租宝), a P2P lending site that swindled 50 billion RMB (about $7.5 billion USD) from almost a million investors. Since then, the scandals haven’t stopped. Part of it has to do with how fast China’s […]
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[Podcast] Analyse Asia 149: Fintech in China with Zennon Kapron
Editor’s note: This originally appeared on Analyse Asia a weekly podcast hosted by Bernard Leong, dedicated to dissecting the pulse of business, technology, and media in Asia. The podcast features guests from Asia’s vibrant tech community. Zennon Kapron from China Fintech & Kapron Asia joined us in a conversation to discuss the state of fintech in China. We discussed the different verticals within the fintech sector from digital payments, peer to peer lending to wealth management. He explained how the Baidu-Alibaba-Tencent axis is dominant in fintech against the traditional Chinese banks and western banks and serve as a business model for fintech […]
