MarketAxess Holdings Inc., New York-headquartered operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, announced the appointment of Raj Paranandi…
Month: January 2021
In Southeast Asia, buy now pay later (BNPL) is becoming an increasingly popular way for shoppers to pay for purchases…
Broadridge Financial Solutions, a US-based technology solutions provider, announced the appointment of David Ingleson as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued a revised Technology Risk Management guidelines in light of the recent spate…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is encouraging Singaporeans to use e-hong baos, monetary gifts given in envelopes, during the…
Singapore’s fintech industry continued its momentum in 2020 on the back of new regulations, fintech initiatives from regulators themselves and…
Fintech continued to lead Indonesia’s startup funding landscape in 2020, making up for most of the money raised that year,…
Standard Chartered has formed a strategic partnership with Bukalapak to launch digital banking offerings which will be hosted on the…
Vietnamese e-wallet MoMo announced that it had raised US$100 million during its Series D funding round co-led by Goodwater, a…
A relatively new kid on the block digital insurer Singlife has been making waves in the insurance scene. Having completed…
Grab Financial Group (GFG), the fintech arm of Grab, announced that it has raised over US$300 million in its Series…
Rapyd, a Fintech-as-a-Service company, announced a $300 million Series D financing round led by Coatue, a global technology-focused investment manager.…
BukuKas, a digital platform and app for digitising SMEs in Indonesia, has raised USD 10 million during its Series A…
Mastercard has partnered with NMI and Global Payments Inc. to launch its first live Cloud Tap on Phone pilot with…
A new whitepaper by Huawei and the International Data Corporation (IDC) looks at how banks around the world have responded…
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the total number of QR code payment users will exceed 2.2…
Propine, a Singapore-based end-to-end securities services firm catering for digital securities services to institutional clients, has become the first independent…
Southeast Asian economies performed remarkably well in 2020 despite the pandemic. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates a contraction of…
SaaS banking platform Mambu has raised €110 million during its latest funding round, securing a valuation of over €1.7 billion.…
Wave Money, a Myanmar-based mobile financial services provider, recorded a total of 12 trillion Myanmar kyat (US$ 8.7 billion) in…