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The IOT Asia news you need to know | Weekly Review

Every week, we bring you the best IOT news from Asia and around the world. This week, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have been arguing over the danger surrounding the future of AI. Mark Zuckerberg v Elon Musk: Elon Musk

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Fintech Mainstream Adoption To Be Driven By Emerging Markets

Over the past 18 months, adoption of fintech solutions has surged globally with now 33% of digitally active consumers across 20 markets using such products and services compared with 16% in 2015, according to EY’s latest EY Fintech Adoption Index.

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Blockchain in Singapore, How Singapore is integrating Blockchain into everyday life

Singapore is big on blockchain, amid the city state’s Smart Nation push. It is running through a slew of blockchain initiatives to make Singapore the blockchain hub of the world. Leading higher education institution Ngee Ann Polytechnic announced in May

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IOTA and Quantum Resistant Ledger: Two Innovative DLT/Blockchain Projects

The blockchain market is growing rapidly and is set to surge from US$210.2 million in 2016 to US$2.312 billion by 2021, at a CAGR of 61.5%, according to report by Research and Markets. Blockchain, the underlying technology that originated in

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How the world can learn from Indonesia’s microfinance scene

Microfinance disasters have made the news in recent years and the industry has drawn some flak for being unregulated. Indonesia has had relative success. What lessons can we draw from them?  Stories of microloan borrowers in impoverished parts of India

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OCBC Bank makes PayNow even more seamless by enabling account-to-account QR code transfers

By innovatively marrying QR codes with PayNow’s infrastructure, OCBC Bank has delivered a new level of convenience to funds transfers. PayNow did away with the need to know bank account numbers and “adding payees” when making funds transfers. The OCBC

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11 Recent Fintech Fundings in Singapore, Hong Kong, India and other Southeast Asia countries

In 2016, a total of US$23.5 billion was invested into fintech globally, with Asia Pacific receiving more than half of the amount (US$14.8 billion), according to Startupbootcamp. While China and India continue to dominate the region as the largest fintech

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The IOT Asia news you need to know | Weekly Review

Every week, we bring you the best IOT news from Asia and around the world. This week, Audi tackles robocars and we look at the power of data in small businesses. Smart Cities: Let’s make cities more alive using Internet

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The Promise of Fintech in Vietnam. A Culture of Cash

In 2002, according to Plastic Money, there were only nine foreign-operated ATMs (ANZ, HSBC, and Citibank) in the entire country with 79 locally-operated ATMs (all State-owned banks) and slightly more than 5,000 point-of-sale (POS) terminals across Vietnam. Between 2011-2015, the State

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Global Payment Summit Coming to Singapore; Last Chance to Nominate Your Startup for Florin Awards

The Global Payment Summit, organized by the Transactives, will take place in Singapore on August 28 and 29, 2017 at the Sofitel Singapore Sentosa Resort and Spa. The two-day event aims to act as a platform where global expertise of

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