Pine Labs, a merchant commerce platform, announced that it has completed the first close of its US$285 million funding round.…
Year: 2021
Vietnam’s digital bank Timo has announced two new additions to its Global Advisory Board; Nirukt Sapru, former CEO of Standard Chartered…
It has been six months since The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced the four successful applicants for Singapore’s inaugural…
Southeast Asian digital wealth manager StashAway has launched a group term life insurance policy underwritten by Prudential Singapore named StashAway…
Embedded finance will transform the role of finance, making it contextual, convenient and cost-effective. Instead of finance being a stand-alone…
Citi has launched a fully automated securities lending solution for the wealth management firms that it provides custody services to…
DBS Private Bank has introduced a trust solution for the asset class via DBS Trustee, the bank’s wholly-owned, licensed trust…
London-based fintech unicorn Wise has announced an integration to bring its platform to Google Pay users allowing the send money…
Y-Combinator backed fintech Aspire has reached US$1 billion in annualised transaction volumes within one year of the launch of its…
Asia is seeing the emergence of a booming community of remittance-focused tech companies. These companies leverage technology and digital platforms…
Singapore Exchange Regulation (SGX RegCo) is introducing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other regtech solutions to enhance its…
Validus, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform for SMEs, has received over S$50 million from UK’s alternative asset manager Fasanara Capital…
Global e-commerce sales have surged amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam, India and Japan recording…
BearingPoint RegTech, a Netherlands-based regtech solution provider, has further expanded its end-to-end solution ABACUS/Transactions with a new MAS module. The…
Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Bank BRI) announced that its subsidiary PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia Agroniaga (BRI Agro) has appointed Kaspar Situmorang…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced the launch of the 6th edition of the Global Fintech Hackcelerator, with the…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, an American multinational enterprise information technology company, has expanded its consumption-based IT model HPE GreenLake with storage…
Global payments platform Adyen announced that its Singapore entity has received approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to…
Over the past year, companies have had to accelerate their digital transformation just to survive. Their investments were essential to…
Amartha, a P2P lending platform in Indonesia, received new funding worth US$ 28 million (IDR 405 billion) led by Women’s…