Posts From Fintech News Singapore
24 Fintech Experts and Entrepreneurs to Meet at Singapore Fintech Festival 2018
Singapore’s annual Fintech Festival, one of the largest fintech events in the world, will take place in less than a month from now and promises, once again, to bring together some of the globe’s most influential fintech entrepreneurs, leaders and
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Singaporeans Will Receive Their Visa-Enabled Crypto.com Cards Soon
Crypto.com announced that it has begun shipping MCO Visa Cards to customers in Singapore. The MCO Visa Card enables users to spend their cryptocurrencies anywhere that Visa is accepted. Reportedly, it already has more than 190,000 app downloads and 93,000
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Grab’s E-Wallet Will Come With a Mastercard-Enabled Prepaid Card By 2019
Grab, which started out as a Southeast Asian ride-hailing platform that has since delved into “super-app” ambitions, announces a partnership with Mastercard. The pair will be issuing joint prepaid cards geared for the Southeast Asian market. Grab will be issuing
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Samsung Joins Global Team Up to Create Yet Another Logistics Blockchain Project
There is still a lot of space in the logistics sector to use digitisation to achieve more transparency and, particularly, more efficiency. This is perhaps why the field of logistics has been of particular interest for companies across the globe, with
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Cambodia Sees Growing Fintech Industry; Laos Still Lacks Behind
Cambodia’s startup ecosystem is experiencing growth, with tech investment on the rise. By Q2 2018, Cambodia had seen at least 12 tech startup funding announcements, or exactly a 140% increase from at five in the previous year, according to a
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Kazakhstan Strives to Become an Attractive Destination for Fintech Startups
The Kazakhstan government is looking to turn its capital of Astana into an attractive destination for fintech companies as part of a broader plan to reduce the country’s dependence on the export of natural resources. Kazakhstan, the world’s largest landlocked
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Investors Seeking to Invest $US12 B in ASEAN Startups at Singapore Fintech Festival
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that 380 participating investors who enrolled for the Singapore FinTech Festival’s deal-making platform, MATCH. Investors have indicated intentions to invest up to a total of US$6.2 billion in ASEAN enterprises next year, and
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Singapore AI Startup Map 2018
Governments and private sectors from around the globe have caught the the artificial intelligence and machine learning bug. Reflecting the same fervor for this, the Singaporean government particularly MAS has also announced its US$ 27 Million grant for artificial intelligence.
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SWIFT Completes Trial — Cross Border Payments From Singapore Made in 30 Seconds
SWIFT recently shared the successful test results of its new instant cross-border payments proof of concept. This news follows on the heels of their previous announcement of launching a sandbox which allows fintech players to test on Australia’s New Payments Platform
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UOB Announces AI-Based App That’ll Give Financial Advice Based on Your Spending Habits
UOB Bank today announced the launch of its pan-regional engagement lab (eLab), with a goal of helping the bank converse with its consumers in a more personalised manner. eLab is a dedicated unit set up by UOB that aims to use
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