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Culum Capital announce investment from GTR Ventures

Culum Capital, a Singapore-based receivables and supply chain financing platform, has announced an investment from GTR Ventures, the world’s first investment and venture-building platform specialising in trade and supply chain. The investment will be used to accelerate Culum’s expansion and

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9 out of 10 Singaporeans Interested in Biometrics Authentication and Payments

Singaporeans are interested in using biometric methods to verify identity (97 percent) and make payments (96 percent), recognizing that biometrics are faster, easier and more secure than traditional passwords, according to a recent Visa survey on biometric authentication for payments.

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Best Countries in Asia-Pacific for Startups, Singapore top, Vietnam last

The best countries for startups in Asia-Pacific have strong economies, relatively low cost of conducting business, healthy business environments and highly educated populations. Our scoring system is based on available data and each country’s rank across several categories. Lower scores

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Top 10 Robot Vacuum Cleaner for 2018

Too lazy to clean your room at home, we are too. Therefore we have selected our Top 10 robot vacuum cleaner for 2018 that will help you.   1. ILIFE V5s Pro Robot Vacuum Mop Cleaner ILIFE V5s pro is specially designed for

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Nominations for the 2018 Smart City Asia Pacific Awards

IDC Government Insights announced today that this year’s search for the top smart city initiatives in Asia Pacific is underway. Dubbed as IDC’s Smart City Asia Pacific Awards (SCAPA), which is now on its fourth year, IDC is looking for

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The 2018 Tokensky Blockchain Conference in Seoul

The 2018 Tokensky Blockchain conference in Seoul was a huge success.  It was held at the Grand Hilton Hotel Convention Center and brought together a large gathering of Blockchain/token companies. Startup Radar, as well as 500v2, were at the event for both

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Fintech ICOs In Singapore – a short Overview

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) surged in 2017 with a total of US$6 billion raised through 884, according to ICO Data. 2018 is on track to surpass this number, with already US$3 billion raised through 380 campaigns. Telegram ICO expects this

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MAS about Crypto Tokens: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Speech by Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director, MAS, at Money20/20: This is a conference named after Money. Money has been with us for at least 5000 years. And over the last 300 years or so, we have come to accept

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Philippine Banks on Fintech: What are They Doing?

Now seen by many as inevitable, the consolidation and cooperation between traditional banks and fintech players are becoming more frequent in the Philippines. No less than the Philippine central bank or Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has constantly been urging

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Top 5 Fintech Philippines News of the Week (CW 11)

Fintechnews.PH picks every Friday for you the top 5 Fintech Philippines News of the week: Follow the Fintech Philippines Facebook or Twitter channel to stay updated. Also you can subscribe to our monthly Fintech PH Newsletter here. Here we go: CIMB partners PLDT units FINTQ,

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