Globally, Web Summit reckons investment in fintech has risen 20-fold since 2008. Anyone who thinks Asia has lagged Silicon Valley (or Silicon Roundabout) in this field hasn’t been paying attention. Hong Kong hosted Asia’s first Web Summit event last week, called RISE. Obeying its commanding title, the event was packed with hundreds of exhibitors from tech startups eager to raise the profile of (and funding for) their new hardware/IoT function/security platform/blockchain system/payments...