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Huawei’s Webinar Series Aims to Help Businesses Cope with COVID-19
Huawei recently announced the launch of their webinar series targetted helping businesses to better cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Happening every Thursday at 3.00pm Huawei’s webinars aim to tackle different issues and realities brought on by the health crisis. As
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Revolut Bolsters Leadership Team in Singapore with New CEO and Two Senior Appointments
Revolut, has bolstered its leadership team in Singapore with the appointment of a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Growth. This comes after it announced Martin Gilbert’s appointment as Chairman of its Board, who sat on the
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P2P Lender Validus Raises US$20 Million in Series B+ Round Led by Vertex Growth
Validus, a SME financing platform that is also present in Indonesia (Batumbu) and Vietnam (Validus Vietnam), has successfully raised over US$14 million, with US$20 million in committed capital in its ongoing Series B+ funding round co-led by Vertex Growth Fund
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Rethinking Live Fintech Events and Summits in the Time of COVID-19
COVID-19 is continuing to spread around the world, causing deaths and major disruption to the global economy. To date, more than 251,000 people have unfortunately succumbed to the virus and the number of confirmed cases has exceeded 3.5 million, according
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63% of APAC Customers Willing to Switch to Challenger Banks in 5 Years
63% of banking customers in Asia-Pacific (APAC) are likely to use digital banking services offered by neobanks and challenger banks by 2025, highlighting the urgency for banks to innovate, according to the Fintech and Digital Banking 2025 report by Backbase
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Philippines’ RCBC is Thriving Despite COVID-19 Pandemic
Yuchengco-led Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) is reporting record-highs in digital growth amid the pandemic and Philippines’ enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). The bank is seeing triple-digit growth of up to 821% in key metrics of RCBC’s online and mobile facilities
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Riding the Cloud to the Bank of the Future
Shifts in consumer behaviour towards digital services are resulting in monumental changes for the banking industry. Highly anticipated digital banking licenses will be awarded in Singapore and Malaysia this year, while the first of the winners of Hong Kong’s new
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5 Steps Of An Effective KYB (Know Your Business)
What do you know about the businesses that you are working with? Your partners, clients, suppliers? How can you make sure that they are real companies but not shell companies? Where do they get money from? Where does their money
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Robo-Advisor Endowus Aims to Improve CPF Investment while Lowering Cost
The COVID-19 health crisis and the related protection measures put in place have critically impacted economic activity, with the International Monetary Funding (IMF) projecting a contraction of the global economy by 3% in 2020 as a result of the pandemic
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Rapyd: E-Wallet Popularity on The Rise in Asia Pacific
In Asia Pacific (APAC), adoption of fintech applications including digital wallets is booming, according to a new study by Rapyd, a global Fintech as a Service company. Rapyd, which surveyed 3,500 online consumers in APAC in March and April 2020,
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