Posts From Fintech News Singapore
Blockchain and Bitcoin Use Cases: ChangeTip & Bitproof
The Bitcoin protocol has caught the eye of many. Financial institutions are exploring how they could possibly use distributed ledger technology for institutional banking; startups are finding new ways to use the blockchain for anything from identification, to document certification.
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A Crowdfunding Campaigns Aggregator App
Self-proclaimed the ‘Tinder of crowdfunding,’ OFF3R is the world’s first mobile crowdfunding aggregator that allows users to quickly discover and review all the hot opportunities and campaigns ongoing. Taking a similar approach as the world’s most popular dating app, OFF3R
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Ripple Singapore, the World’s First Ripple Gold & Silver Gateway
Operated by Ripple Gateway Pte Ltd, Ripple Singapore is a Ripple gateway that uses the Ripple network to acquire, store and convert precious metals into any currency. Launched in January 2014, the service is Singapore’s first major Ripple gateway and
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10 Fintech Accelerators and Incubators in Singapore
“From payments to wealth management, from peer-to-peer lending to crowdfunding, a new generation of startups is taking aim at the heart of the industry,” has said the Economist, describing the ‘Fintech Revolution.’ And what better place than Singapore, the finance
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Ahamove: Vietnam’s Logistics Services Disruptor
Vietnam’s Ahamove, an Uber-like service for logistics, seeks to disrupt the current business models and address the country’s logistics sector’s “severe fragmentation and inefficiency,” according to Phuoc Tran, Co-Founder and Operation Manager at Ahamove. Similarly to Uber, Ahamove provides users
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Vietnam’s Mobile Payments App MoMo With 50% Transaction Volume Growth per Month
Mobile payments app MoMo is experiencing rapid growth and currently stands as the most downloaded application in the Apple Store Vietnam. According to Manh Tuong Nguyen, Vice President at M_Service, the company behind MoMo, the app has been seeing 30
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PwC Report: Cryptocurrency Can ‘Open the Door for Revolutionary Possibilities’
Cryptocurrency will still face many challenges but is here to say, according to ‘Big Four’ advisory firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). In a recent whitepaper, the firm claims that the technology “has the potential to open the door for revolutionary possibilities.” Entitled
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SMEs’ Limited Access to Financing is an Untapped Opportunity for Banks
In the ASEAN region, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) still have limited access to financing. Despite their critical economic role in countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore, the segment represents a major untapped opportunity for banks
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BankGuard Seeks to Reinvent Online Banking Security
Japanese startup BankGuard has developed a new security system for the online banking industry that addresses weaknesses of current technologies on man-in-the-middle attacks. Entitled the SuperMatrix, this patented two-factor authentication solution is reinventing banking security by utilizing images rather than
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15 Insightful Fintech Blogs You Might Not Know
Aside from popular news services there are many financial professionals, venture capitalists and technologists who decide to start and maintain a blog. They share their knowledge and insights on cutting-edge technologies. Unlike news services, these individuals offer lengthy analysis and
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