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Launch of Singapore Valley Awards
Singapore’s undergraduates can look forward to a unique entrepreneurship initiative, the Singapore Valley Awards (“SVA”), which was launched this week. The prize: a rare chance for internships with leading innovation companies in China. The internships will give the winners first-hand
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SoftBank Vision Fund – Investment in Slack, the Business Communication Platform
Slack has announced today a Series G funding round led by Softbank Vision Fund with Accel as second largest investor – expands Slack’s existing $540M funding by an additional $250M; post-money valuation now at $5.1B [April 2016: $3.8bn]. Capital to
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AccessPay and Assembly Payments win SWIFT’s Global GPI Industry Challenge
SWIFT gives two FinTech start-ups the opportunity to work with the co-operative and gpi banks over a three-month period to further enhance cross-border payments, leveraging on SWIFT gpi. The two startups will receive up to 100,000 EUR each to further
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Fundaztic to fill the RM80 Billion Funding Gap to SMEs: Malaysian P2P Lending Platform
Fundaztic.com made its debut on the peer-to-peer (P2P) financing platform with a low entry barrier investment of RM50 (12USD), and is now expecting to draw investors to fund more than 500 micro and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and startups within
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Get an Advantedj in making Investments with Financial Influencers
Advantedj, a P2P online platform for investment insights specifically for PMETs launched this week. Unlike B2B startups, B2C robo-advisors, banks, online forums, and personal financial advisors, Advantedj levels the playing field with financial influencers for the disadvantaged amateur investors. Through
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TransferFriend Aims to Build The World’s Most Trusted Fintech Brand
Out of 600 million people in ASEAN, around 73% are unbanked. Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is taking over the Financial Service industry. Singapore has been supporting this initiative for some time now through high investments in order to promote building a
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Adyen Expands Direct Credit Card Acquiring Capabilities to Include Singapore
Adyen announced an expansion of its current payment processing offerings in Singapore via a direct credit card acquiring license for Visa and MasterCard. This extends Adyen’s full stack solution to Singapore, enabling businesses to process transactions and increase opportunities for improved
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Mobile Payments Rise in Popularity, Reaching Tipping Point in Some Countries, Global Report
On the eve of the third anniversary of the launch of Apple Pay, mobile wallet adoption is on the rise globally and consumers in the U.S. and Europe are catching up with those in fast-growing economies in Asia and Latin
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The Action Community for Entrepreneurship Launches the ACE International Centre to Support Startups
The Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE), a national private-led organization with the mission to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in Singapore, today announced the official launch of the ACE International Centre (“ACEIC” or the “Centre”). As part of the Government’s efforts
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Citi Launches First Facebook Messenger Banking Chatbot in Singapore that Provides Customer Account Information
Citi Singapore today announced the launch of Citi Bot – the bank’s new natural language chatbot on Facebook Messenger. Singapore is the first market for the launch of the chatbot which will be introduced progressively in the Asia Pacific region
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