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Digital Wealth Manager Syfe Closes US$18.6 Million in Series A Funding Round

Singapore-based digital wealth manager Syfe announced that it has successfully closed a SG$25.2 million (US$18.6 million) Series A funding round

A Booming Fintech Investment and Exit Landscape in South East Asia

AMTD Reveals the 5 Fintech Startups Selected for its S$11.5M Fund

Singapore-Based Thunes Raises US$60M in Series B Funding

South East Asia Leads Fintech Funding in Asia Pacific

GBG Invests US$7M in CredoLab’s Series A Funding Round

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Mobile Payments Remittance

Southeast Asia Becomes Centre for Instant Cross-Border Payments Growth

Following in the footsteps of the European Union, ASEAN is moving towards having its very own Single European Payments Area

Virtual Banking

Razer Fintech Turns to Perx to Enhance Its Gamification Strategy

Razer Fintech, the financial arm of Razer Inc., has partnered with Singapore-based lifestyle marketing SaaS (Software as a Service) platform,

Mobile Payments

Google Pay Launches All-In-One P2P Payments Solution in Singapore

Google has launched its all-in-one peer-to-peer funds transfer service in Singapore in order to streamline transactions from different banks on

Remittance

TransferWise Records a Whooping 70% Revenue Growth in the Past Year

Fintech unicorn TransferWise announced that its annual revenue had grown by 70%, hitting a profit of £302.6 million (S$531.65m) for

Funding Wealthtech

Digital Wealth Manager Syfe Closes US$18.6 Million in Series A Funding Round

Singapore-based digital wealth manager Syfe announced that it has successfully closed a SG$25.2 million (US$18.6 million) Series A funding round

Financial Inclusion Sponsored Post Virtual Banking

Huawei Developer Conference: Brett King Talks Financial Inclusion, Banking 4.0, and More

At the 2020 Huawei Developer Conference held earlier this week, fintech influencer, best-selling author, and entrepreneur Brett King joined the

Personal Finance Mgt (PFM)

StanChart Partners With Snowdrop for Interactive Digital Banking Experience Using Google Maps

Standard Chartered Bank has launched Standard Chartered Places (SC Locate), a new banking enhancement that maps out where users spend

Covid19 Financial Inclusion Redefining Finance for Good Virtual Banking

Finance Needs to Be Redefined for Good to Serve One Billion of Asia’s Unbanked

As a catalyst for digitalization, COVID-19 will further help improve financial inclusion in emerging economies, according to Wissam Khoury, head

Innovation Sponsored Post

5 Key Highlights From Huawei’s Developer Conference

From September 10 to 12, 2020, Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) held the annual Huawei Developer Conference. Themed HDC.Together, the

Personal Finance Mgt (PFM)

Gen Z Versus Millennials – Who Fared Better at Saving Money and Budgeting?

When it comes to saving habits, Singaporean Gen Zs (aged 18 – 23) are savvier than their millennial counterparts (aged

Lending

IFC Acquires Stake in Collectius To Launch US$60M Investment Platform

Collectius, a credit management servicing company, will launch a US$60 million regional investment platform with IFC, a member of the

Mobile Payment

Flywire Develops Digital Payment Platform for NTU Singapore’s International Students

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has partnered with vertical payments company Flywire to offer a fully integrated, digital payment

Open Banking

SWIFT Announces New Strategy to Enhance Its Processing Platform

SWIFT announced that over the next 2 years and beyond, it will continually enhance its payments and securities platform as

Various

The First 25 Fintech Students Graduate from NUS Singapore

The pioneer batch of 25 students from the NUS-FinTechSG Programme, jointly developed by the NUS FinTech Lab and Strategic Technology

Blockchain/Bitcoin Thailand

Thailand’s Central Bank Issues Government Bonds on Blockchain

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) launched a new platform to issue government savings bond using blockchain technology with its DLT

Thailand Trade Finance Vietnam

Standard Chartered Thailand: First Blockchain Based Cross-Bank Letter of Credit

Thailand’s Standard Chartered completed its first cross-bank Letter of Credit (LC) transaction between Vietnam and Thailand conducted over blockchain between

Funding

A Booming Fintech Investment and Exit Landscape in South East Asia

Since 2015, foreign investment into Southeast Asia’s fintech companies has grown seven times, according to The Future of Fintech in

Funding

AMTD Reveals the 5 Fintech Startups Selected for its S$11.5M Fund

AMTD has announced its first batch of investments in five fintech companies as a part of its Singapore Solidarity Fund

Wealthtech

Razer Fintech and Franklin Templeton Teams up to Design Digital Wealth Tools for the Youth

Franklin Templeton through its Singapore subsidiary, Templeton Asset Management, and Razer Fintech, the financial arm of Razer Inc, announced that

InsurTech

Singlife to Merge with Aviva in Singapore’s Largest Insurance Deal Valued at S$3.2 Billion

Singapore Life Pte. Ltd. (Singlife), a homegrown insurer, offering mobile savings and protection solutions, today announced it has entered into

Lending Various

hoolah Launches Buy Now Pay Later Solution for Physical Stores in Singapore

Singapore-based hoolah extended Buy Now Pay Later to an in-store solution that offers consumers the option of completing their purchases

Blockchain/Bitcoin

Mastercard Launches Central Bank Digital Currencies Testing Platform

Mastercard announced a proprietary virtual testing environment for central banks to evaluate Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) use cases. The

Lending

Funding Societies Appoints Ex-GoBear Co-Founder as CFO

P2P financing platform Funding Societies, announced today, key additions to its executive team including former GoBear Co-Founder, Frank Stevenaar as

Huawei Developer Conference 2020 to Discuss HarmonyOS, HMS Core 5.0, EMUI 11, Fintech, and More

From September 10 to 12, 2020, Huawei will be hosting its annual developer conference, a multi-day event expected to bring

Funding Remittance

Singapore-Based Thunes Raises US$60M in Series B Funding

Singapore-based Thunes, a B2B cross-border payments network, raises US$60 million in Series B funding round led by Africa-focused Helios Investment

Vietnam

3 Hurdles Vietnam has to Overcome to Become a Fintech Leader

The fintech industry has been growing steadily in Vietnam, fueled by increasing smartphone and Internet penetration, the country’s young population,

Blockchain/Bitcoin Trade Finance

Banks View Digitising Trade Finance as a Top Priority

Around the world, banks are reconsidering their trade finance business model, viewing digitalization as one of the most important trends

Regtech Sponsored Post Studies

Evolving Regulatory Landscape Pushes Wealth Managers Towards Regtech Specialists

The rapidly changing regulatory landscape is pushing wealth and asset management companies to turn to specialist regtech providers, experts said.

Covid19 Sponsored Post

Going Contactless in the Light of COVID

The current pandemic situation across the world is known to many by the back of their hands. There is no

Philippines

Fintechnews.ph Launches Fintech Philippines Report and Map 2020

2019 saw a boom for the Philippines’ digital payments space, where e-money transactions jumped to 36% to reach PHP 760

Various

The 10 Best Fintech Books To Have In Your Library

Top 10 Fintech Books While blogs and news portals will keep you up-to-date in terms of companies and corporate news,

Various

MAS: 100 FinTech Problems to Solve for Singapore

Solve this problem on the Singapore Hackcelerator and apply until August 15th here! 7 problem statements on KYC / Identity

Top Picks Virtual Banking

Here Are The Contenders to Singapore’s Digital Banking Race

Singapore’s digital banking license was perhaps one of the most widely discussed topic in 2019 within fintech circles and we

Blockchain/Bitcoin

Top 10 Blockchain Social Media Alternatives to Watch Out For

While blockchain was once known merely as the building blocks used to make bitcoin, it’s now being hailed as a

Fintech IPO Various

27 Most Valued World Fintech Unicorns, 8 From China

Business Insider Singapore, CBInsights, Funderbeam, and Crunchbase together have created the world’s fintech unicorns – fintech start-ups valued at over $1 billion.

Blockchain/Bitcoin

Landscape of Blockchain Companies in Financial Services

In November 2008, a paper was posted on the Internet under the name Satoshi Nakamoto titled ‘bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic

Philippines

The Philippines Fintech Report 2018

Note: We’ve update this report, the 2020 edition of the Fintech Report can be found here With a population

Various

Singapore’s 30 Hottest Fintech Startups To Watch

Singapore’s vibrant startup ecosystem, supportive government, stable financial system and business-friendly tax regime, have helped turn the city-state into an

Various

The Hottest Fintech Companies in Singapore in 2017

Singapore has had quite an amazing year with regard to fintech. The city-state organized the world’s largest fintech event, a

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