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Grab Ties up With Citi to Offer in-App Loans
Citi and Grab, South East Asia’s super app, have expanded their partnership in consumer lending with the launch of the bank’s first API-enabled lending capability in Asia Pacific. Beginning with Singapore with more markets in the region to follow, existing
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Digital Wealth Manager Syfe Rolls Out New Cash Management Solution
Syfe, a digital wealth management company licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has launched the Syfe Cash+ portfolio which is its latest cash management product that aims to enable all Singaporeans to grow their savings and still have
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Silent Eight Bags Multi-Year Partnership to Help HSBC Combat Financial Crime
Silent Eight, a Singaporean regtech using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to combat money laundering and terrorism financing, announced a multi-year partnership with HSBC that will support the bank in enhancing its compliance operations. HSBC selected Silent Eight to improve its manual
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Singapore Wealthtech Sector Continues to Grow; Sees Signs of Consolidation in 2021
In Singapore’s burgeoning 1,000+ strong fintech industry, the wealthtech subsegment continues to grow and mature on the back of increased appetite from investors, acquisition deals, and rising demands for automated financial advisory services, notably from the younger generations. But as
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What Is Fintech? A Guide To Financial Technology
With its ever-growing trends and potentially transformative field, financial technology (fintech) has been attracting investors for quite some time now. The broad variety of technological interventions in both personal and commercial finance provides diverse opportunities for individual investments, small startups,
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Agoda Rolls Our Buy Now, Pay Later Payment Solution With Atome
Digital travel platform Agoda has launched a regional partnership with Singaporean buy now, pay later platform Atome to offer flexible instalment payment options for accommodation bookings first in Singapore and Malaysia, before rolling out to include eight additional markets in
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Financial Institutions Turn to Huawei’s Converged Data Lake Solution to Accelerate Banking Innovation
Like many other areas of the economy, the financial services sector is undergoing a data revolution. Every day, the global banking industry generates massive amounts of data by processing hundreds of billions of financial transactions as well as through interactions
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iSTOX Launches Unicorn Fund in Digitised Securities Form
Digitised securities platform iSTOX announced that it has listed a unicorn fund in digitised securities form, allowing the creation of security tokens where manual processes can be automated and minimum investment ticket sizes to be reduced to US$20,000. This expands
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