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Mastercard Appoints Gautam Aggarwal as Division President for South Asia
Mastercard today announced the appointment of Gautam Aggarwal as Division President for South Asia & Country Corporate Officer, India, effective January 1. Gautam takes the mantle from Nikhil Sahni, who is assuming a new regional role within the company. With
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Top 10 Highlights from Last Week’s Singapore Fintech Festival
The seventh edition of the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF), one of the world’s largest annual fintech events, kicked off on October 31, 2022 as an in-person event at the Singapore Expo. This year’s event, themed “Building Resilient Business Models amid
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Meet the 36 SFF Global Fintech Awards Winners
36 companies and individuals have been selected as winners of the SFF Global Fintech Awards 2022 under the theme “Embracing Digital, Charting the New Normal”. The winners, which were announced during the Singapore Fintech Festival’s Fintech Awards Dinner, were selected
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StraitsX Pilots Three Stablecoin Applications at SFF to Showcase Real-World Use Cases
Crypto payment infrastructure company StraitsX is piloting a series of stablecoin applications at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2022 to showcase stablecoins’ real-world use cases and business benefits. The three use cases, done in collaboration with IDEMIA, The HBAR Foundation, Mastercard
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Mastercard to Expand Farm Pass Programme Across APAC
Mastercard announced today at the Singapore Fintech Festival that it would expand its Farm Pass digital platform across the Asia Pacific region. The expansion will build on the success of the Farm Pass platform in India, where it has helped
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Airwallex Partners With Atome to Enable BNPL Payments For Singapore Merchants
Payments company Airwallex partnered with buy now pay later (BNPL) provider Atome to enable its merchants in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Malaysia to offer BNPL as a payment option. The partnership, which was announced at the Singapore Fintech Festival,
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Meet the 65 Finalists at the SFF Global Fintech Awards 2022
The SFF Global Fintech Awards 2022, presented by Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Singapore Fintech Association (SFA) and supported by PwC Singapore, is themed “Embracing Digital, Charting the New Normal”. 223 submissions were received across nine award categories,
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Indonesia’s Finantier Joins Mastercard’s New Start Path Open Banking Programme
Indonesia’s Finantier was one of the five open banking startups from around the world join Mastercard’s new Start Path Open Banking programme. Other companies handpicked for this inaugural class include Dapi, mmob, Mono and Paywallet. These five companies will join
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YouTrip Rolls Out New Corporate Card With Credit Facility for SMEs
Singapore’s neobank YouTrip announced that it has launched its new corporate card “YouBiz” that is powered by Mastercard for SMEs. YouBiz enables SMEs to generate physical and unlimited virtual cards for payments in over 150 currencies at more than 80
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EZ-Link Partners With Mastercard for Greater Digital Payments Capabilities
EZ-Link announced the launch of its enhanced EZ-Link Wallet that was developed in collaboration with Mastercard. When users activate the new Pay by Wallet feature, they can use their EZ-Link Wallet to make online and in-store contactless payments at over
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