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Culum Capital launch Online Platform for Alternative Investment
Culum Capital, a Singapore-based receivables and supply chain financing provider, launches its investor platform. Aimed at accredited and institutional investors from around the globe, the platform facilitates invoice financing to SMEs as an alternative to traditional financing sources. The platform’s
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Unified Data Platform Provider iguazio Opens APAC Headquarters in Singapore
iguazio a data platform powering continuous analytics and event-driven applications, announced the opening of its Asia Pacific (APAC) regional headquarters in Singapore. iguazio announced Singapore-based Grab as a marquee customer in September 2017 and is rapidly growing its customers across industries including financial services, automotive,
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Top Fintech Vietnam News from November 2017
Fintech Vietnam Meetup is back with the November 2017 newsletter with all you need to know about Fintech in Vietnam. Interesting news this month, Uber-Momo Deal. new Digital Banks coming to Vietnam, Mobile payment is heating up and State Bank of Vietnam is
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E-Money License Granted: Grab Malaysia “Grabs” a Piece of the Payments Pie
Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing app Grab has obtained regulatory approval from Bank Negara Malaysia to launch its mobile payment service in Malaysia following it’s earlier approval from the Singaporean authorities. This move is mirrored by it’s Indonesian counterpart Go-Jek who
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New Union Achieves MAS CMS License; Anticipates S$2 Million Deal Flow To Be Launched
Crowdlending platform, New Union (新联在线), announces that it has been awarded the full Capital Market Service license (“CMS”) by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”) and has lined up a robust deal flow pipeline of about S$2 million that will
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Malaysian Insurtech Company, Fatberry Launches
Malaysia’s insurtech company, FatBerry.com launched a digital marketplace for insurance providing Malaysians with a way to get insured in two minutes. In conjunction with the launch, FatBerry.com also announced its partnership with Tune Protect Malaysia, the an online retail portal
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Top 5 Fintech Philippines News of the Week (CW 49)
Fintechnews.PH picks every Friday for you the top 5 Fintech Philippines News of the week: Here we go: Globe Exec Expects Fintech Unit to Rack Up Revenues in 10 Years GLOBE Telecom Inc. President Ernest L. Cu admitted it
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Bank Negara Malaysia Releases e-KYC Guidelines
Following the announcement by Deputy Governor Jessica Chew earlier this September, Bank Negara Malaysia has officially released the e-KYC guidelines which sets out the minimum requirements and standards that an approved remittance service provider must observe in implementing e-KYC. The guideline
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The State of Equity Crowdfunding Malaysia
Equity crowdfunding is a mechanism that enables the general public to invest in typically early stage businesses. In return for the investment the investors are typically given a small piece of equity in return (think Kickstarter but instead of rewards
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Thai Start-up ‘DRVR’ Partners with Tata Communications to Revolutionise Asia’s first Smart Fleet Network
International fleet management application provider, DRVR has selected Tata Communications as its global IoT connectivity partner to help achieve its objective of making Asia’s vehicle fleets the smartest and most cost-efficient in the world. Leveraging Tata Communications’ mobility solution– MOVE™, DRVR can convert information collected
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