In March 2021, Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist, sold a piece of his digital art for a whopping $69.3 million.…
Crypto exchange platform Binance Australia has announced the appointment of Leigh Travers as its Australian Chief Executive Officer. Travers was…
InvestHK, a Hong Kong government’s department responsible for attracting and retaining foreign direct investment, is offering a free-of-charge, comprehensive soft…
Kredivo, an Indonesian Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) platform, announced its expansion into Vietnam through a joint venture with Phoenix…
In Southeast Asia, the emergence of fintech startups and the entrance of bigtechs and platform services providers into the financial…
The proliferation of data and an ever-so complex regulatory environment are driving the rise of regtech, forcing financial institutions to…
PayPal has partnered with the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) to grow its Singapore workforce by nearly 25%.…
OCBC Bank has recovered US$8 million worth of fraudulent transactions within the first year of the deployment of its Fraud…
Digital banking software provider Backbase’s new study found that Singapore’s retail banking sector is struggling to keep its lead against…
UOB’s innovation accelerator The FinLab and Mumpreneurs-Go-Places, an arm of Mums@Work, launched an accelerator programme for aspiring mum entrepreneurs. The…
Global payments network Thunes announced a partnership with Pakistan’s Bank Alfalah to enable real-time affordable cross-border payments to consumers in…
The momentum continues for Singapore’s fintech industry as funding reached a three-year high in deals transacted in H1 2021. 72…
Banking and financial services platform Mambu released its research series named the Disruption Diaries which seeks to understand what people…
Peer-to-peer lending app Ringan, deploys a suite of digital lending solutions built by OneConnect Financial Technology, an associate of Ping…
The United States Department of the Treasury and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has finalised a bilateral Memorandum of…
With continuous growth and expansion of the Internet and supporting technologies, more people are being connected and it has become…
Alibaba Group’s B2B marketplace Alibaba.com has partnered with WorldFirst, a international payments platform, to help Singapore’s small and medium-sized enterprises…
Banking and financial services platform Mambu shares its “Reinventing Banks as Disruptors” whitepaper to help financial institutions get ready for…
Singaporean crypto exchange platform Binance appointed Richard Teng, the former CEO of Financial Services Regulatory Authority at Abu Dhabi Global…
Singapore was recently ranked the fourth-best country globally for unicorn startups by Money.co.uk, a financial research website, which reported that…