The Bank of Thailand (BOT) launched a new platform to issue government savings bond using blockchain technology with its DLT…
Month: September 2020
Thailand’s Standard Chartered completed its first cross-bank Letter of Credit (LC) transaction between Vietnam and Thailand conducted over blockchain between…
Since 2015, foreign investment into Southeast Asia’s fintech companies has grown seven times, according to The Future of Fintech in…
AMTD has announced its first batch of investments in five fintech companies as a part of its Singapore Solidarity Fund…
Franklin Templeton through its Singapore subsidiary, Templeton Asset Management, and Razer Fintech, the financial arm of Razer Inc, announced that…
Singapore Life Pte. Ltd. (Singlife), a homegrown insurer, offering mobile savings and protection solutions, today announced it has entered into…
Singapore-based hoolah extended Buy Now Pay Later to an in-store solution that offers consumers the option of completing their purchases…
Mastercard announced a proprietary virtual testing environment for central banks to evaluate Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) use cases. The…
P2P financing platform Funding Societies, announced today, key additions to its executive team including former GoBear Co-Founder, Frank Stevenaar as…
From September 10 to 12, 2020, Huawei will be hosting its annual developer conference, a multi-day event expected to bring…
Singapore-based Thunes, a B2B cross-border payments network, raises US$60 million in Series B funding round led by Africa-focused Helios Investment…
The fintech industry has been growing steadily in Vietnam, fueled by increasing smartphone and Internet penetration, the country’s young population,…
Around the world, banks are reconsidering their trade finance business model, viewing digitalization as one of the most important trends…
The rapidly changing regulatory landscape is pushing wealth and asset management companies to turn to specialist regtech providers, experts said.…
The current pandemic situation across the world is known to many by the back of their hands. There is no…
2019 saw a boom for the Philippines’ digital payments space, where e-money transactions jumped to 36% to reach PHP 760…
The COVID-19 pandemic has no doubt shifted consumer behaviours dramatically, pushing businesses from across sectors to adapt to these new…
Blockchain Valley Ventures recently welcomed Credit Suisse Private Banking’s former Global Head of Investments, Thomas Amstutz to the company as…
The COVID-19 pandemic has proved to be the perfect trigger to the current economic recession, but the global economy was…
Finastra has topped the list on Digital Banking Processing Platforms (DBPP) for retail banking in a report released by independent…