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Foreign Firms, Investors Eye Thai Fintech Opportunity
Foreign fintech companies and investors are looking at the Thai market as many plan to ride on Thailand’s startup boom and growing digital economy. Indonesia’s Kejora Ventures, one of the region’s most active private venture capital firms, expanded to Thailand
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Interns from Funding Societies introduce Miyu, the friendly Crowdfunding Chatbot
Funding Societies, Singapore’s and Southeast Asia’s leading crowdfunding platform, has announced the launch of its chatbot Miyu. This is the first such chatbot created by a crowdfunding company in Southeast Asia. Miyu works round the clock to answer queries that
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SAP Introduces New SAP Hybris Tools to Help Banks and Insurers
SAP SE announced a new release of the financial services accelerator for the SAP Hybris Commerce solution, enabling banks and insurance companies to offer customers a faster and easier experience opening checking accounts, applying for loans, obtaining insurance policies and
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Omise Partners With Mcdonald’s Thailand To Provide Seamless Payment Experience
Online payment technology service provider Omise announced today that it has been chosen by McDonald’s Thailand to be its exclusive payments gateway for its website, www.mcdonalds.co.th and the McDelivery Thailand mobile app. With consumers growing embrace of online and especially mobile technologies, purchases
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Southeast Asia’s First Online Personal Loan Application Processing Via Chatbot
RHB Bank Berhad (“RHB”)—Malaysia’s fourth largest fully integrated financial services group—in collaboration with RinggitPlus—Malaysia’s leading comparison website for financial products—today introduced ‘ChatBot’, the first real-time messenger-style platform in Southeast Asia to facilitate personal loan applications. Consumers can now apply for
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Connecting Canadian and South-East Asian RegTech Ecosystems
RegTech Canada and Singapore based RegPac Revolution, have signed a co-operation agreement to collaborate on the development of cross-border Regulatory Technology initiatives. For those who are not aware of this recent phenomenon, RegTech (or Regulatory Technology) is the application of
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Challenges or Opportunities for Fintech in Vietnam
In 1995, the first Visa transaction was accepted in Vietnam—the same year that relations between the United States and Vietnam were normalized. In 2006—the year before Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization (WTO)—Visa had 150,000 branded cards in Vietnam. Today,
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Blockchain startup Humaniq launches a global challenge where winners get all-paid trip to Kenya
On September 1, Humaniq opened an international competition of blockchain projects to improve the lives of the world’s unbanked people by integrating them into the global financial system. Winners will refine their ideas on an all-paid trip to Kenya, then
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Remittance Infographic: The Demystifying the Cross Border Ecosystem
The World Bank estimates that remittances will total USD 636 billion in 2017, and with this comes the advent of e-wallets and disruptive fintech solutions seeking to help increase efficiency and smoothen the flow of these large sums of money. These innovative
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10 Fast Growing Fintechs in Philippines
IDC Financial Insights unveiled a list of 10 fast growing fintechs in the Philippines, part of the broader FinTech 101 list for Asia/Pacific. “IDC’s FinTech Fast 101” refers to the fast-growing fintech players in Asia/Pacific based on extensive on-ground analysis
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