One cannot talk about startups in Indonesia without bringing up Bukalapak, arguably one of the biggest e-commerce platforms in the…
Month: May 2019
With US$7.8 billion invested globally in the property technology (proptech) industry between 2013 and 2017, the sector is no doubt…
RCBC Bank is currently awaiting regulatory approval to issue its own Philippine Peso-backed cryptocurrency on the newly announced IBM Blockchain…
tryb announced today that it lead the pre-series A round for Gradana, a peer-to-peer property crowdfunding platform based in Indonesia.…
Using technology and digital channels, challenger banks are reimagining banking, delivering superior digital customer experience and challenging incumbents to reinvent…
Singapore Life has just raised US$7.3 million (approximately SG$10 million) from Hong Kong-based Ion Pacific, an asset management company, according…
The Central Bank of Laos has officially cracked down on cryptocurrency in the republic. The Bank of Lao PDR has…
Philippines’ UnionBank has expressed their intention to invest around $US 9.6 Million into incubating or buying technology ventures where financial…
In recent years, Singapore has emerged as a hotbed for blockchain and crypto innovation, fuelled by the supportive stance from…
Innovate or die. This is a common rallying cry in this era of Silicon Valley and agile tech startups, and…
InstaReM, a digital cross-border money transfer company, has announced that it will now power cross-border payments for the clients of…
Following the launch of its loadable QR-backed Ang Baos (red packets) earlier this year, DBS is now offering the same…
ConsenSys and Microsoft just announced AURA, a blockchain platform that aims to offer the luxury industry with product tracking and…
The World Bank and Commonwealth Bank (CBA) have banded together to enable secondary market trading on blockchain for its block-i…
YouTrip, a multi-currency mobile wallet with a prepaid Mastercard, has successfully raised US$25.5 million in a pre-Series A. Participating investors…
Singapore recently declared its intention to develop the ‘most advanced’ halal hub in Southeast Asia within the next two years.…
Maria Health, a Filipino aggregator for health insurance, has secured an undisclosed amount of seed funding from the tryb group,…
Another day, another cryptocurrency exchange hack. Recently the crypto world has been shaken by the Binance hack, that vanished approximately…
In what seems to be a streak of nations embracing central bank backed digital currencies (CDBC) and Wholesale CDBCs, Wipro…
Let’s suppose you accidentally tore your ligament in the knee while exercising in the gym tomorrow. Do you know how…