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Rapyd Powers PromptPay Acceptance on Google Play Thailand
Global Fintech-as-a-Service platform Rapyd enables PromptPay, Thailand’s national payment service with 55.1 million registered users with 20 million transactions a day, as a payment option on Google Play. Rapyd supports local payments for Google in the country through its collaboration with
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Singapore’s Fintech Deals Skyrockets to Its Highest in Three Years at US$614.2 Million
Singapore’s fintech industry has proven resilient with deal numbers for the first half of 2021 skyrocketing to its year-on-year highest in three years. A total of 72 deals amounting to US$614.2 million were transacted for Singapore fintechs from January to
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ACI Worldwide Expands Partnership With Microsoft To Offer Cloud Payments Platform
ACI Worldwide, a global provider of real-time payments and digital payment software solutions, announced an expanded multi-year strategic alliance with Microsoft to deliver payments solutions in the cloud. The alliance will accelerate and expand ACI’s cloud payments offerings in Microsoft
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Top 10 Fintech and Insurtech Innovation Labs in Singapore to Check Out in 2021
Singapore, which has set out to become one of the leading fintech hubs in the world, has witnessed the establishment of dozens of innovations labs in recent years as banks and foreign tech firms are looking to capitalize on the
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Airome Technologies Recognised as Gartner’s User Authentication Market Leader
Airome Technologies, a Singapore-based developer of cybersecurity solutions for digital banking and e-document management systems, was announced as a representative vendor by Gartner. The Vendor Identification for User Authentication 2021 report contains a comprehensive list of user authentication vendors who
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How Capital Markets are Currently Undergoing a Digital Overhaul
Advances in technologies, including distributed ledger technology (DLT), artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), big data analytics and cloud computing are transforming the lifecycle of securities, increasing efficiency and automation as well as bringing better transparency. Over the past year, incumbent banks
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4 Emerging Wealthtech Use Cases in Singapore
Wealthtech, has been exhibiting robust growth in Singapore over the past few years. According to a recent KPMG report, Singapore has been leading the Asia Pacific (APAC) market in terms of wealth management owing to its advanced infrastructure and sophisticated
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MAS Green Lights Expansion of Tranglo’s Payment Functions
Tranglo, a cross-border payment processing hub, announced that it received new approvals from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to provide account issuance, domestic money transfer and e-money issuance services. The license was granted under the Payment Services Act (PSA) which ensures
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SPACs On The SGX: An Insight into SGX’s Proposed Listing Framework
In recent days, special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been growing in popularity among founders who are keen to take their companies public in a faster way than traditional initial public offerings (IPOs). Grab, the Singapore-headquartered mobile technology company,
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STACS Joins Mastercard’s Start Path Blockchain Programme
Singaporean blockchain development company Hashstacs (STACS) announced that it is joining Mastercard’s new global startup engagement programme Start Path. The programme is dedicated to supporting fast-growing blockchain and digital assets companies. STACS said in a statement that it is one
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