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Mastercard to Expand Farm Pass Programme Across APAC
Mastercard announced today at the Singapore Fintech Festival that it would expand its Farm Pass digital platform across the Asia Pacific region. The expansion will build on the success of the Farm Pass platform in India, where it has helped
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Rapyd Rolls Out Its Multi-Currency Treasury Solution
Global Fintech-as-a-Service platform Rapyd has launched a new multi-currency Treasury Solution for cross-border payments. The payments platform today revealed its latest payment collection, funds management, and pay-outs disbursement solution at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2022. Rather than set up and
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Standard Chartered Launches Its Payouts-as-a-Service Solution at SFF 2022
Standard Chartered presented its Payouts-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution on the first day of the Singapore Fintech Festival today. Clients can integrate the bank’s PaaS APIs into their digital commerce platforms to embed and automate the transaction journey of their complex payout
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Paxos Gets the Green Light From MAS for a Full DPT License
Blockchain infrastructure platform Paxos has received a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to offer digital payment token services as a Major Payments Institution. The license enables Paxos to offer digital asset and blockchain products and services, as
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Circle Gets In-Principle Approval to Offer Digital Payment Tokens in Singapore
Circle, the issuer of USDC and Euro Coin, has received in-principle approval as a Major Payments Institution license holder from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The license allows Circle to offer digital payment token products, as well as cross-border
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ASEAN Fintech Movement Established by Six National Fintech Associations
The national fintech associations of Singapore, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to form the ASEAN Fintech Movement. The MOU, which was signed during the Singapore Fintech Festival, formalises each association’s involvement
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Mobilewalla Latest Offering Helps Lenders Extend Loans to Thin-File Consumers
Consumer intelligence company Mobilewalla has launched LendBetter, its newest offering for digital lenders, at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2022. LendBetter provides digital lenders access to a repository of global consumer information to help them improve their credit assessment and customer
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Proxtera Launches a Multi-Currency Exchange for ASEAN and African Currencies
Proxtera has launched the beta version of a multi-currency exchange platform, the Emerging Markets Currency Exchange or EMCX, in partnership with WorldFirst, Liquid Group, Thunes and Wise. The EMCX digital hub is being trialed by Singapore SMEs trading across Africa
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Climate Tech Startup Offsetted Launches ESG Compliance Solution at SFF 2022
German climate tech company Offsetted has launched Offsetted Finance, an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) compliance solution for the financial industry and real sector. Offsetted Finance enables public and private businesses to understand their carbon footprint, model emission reduction plans,
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Airwallex Partners With Atome to Enable BNPL Payments For Singapore Merchants
Payments company Airwallex partnered with buy now pay later (BNPL) provider Atome to enable its merchants in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Malaysia to offer BNPL as a payment option. The partnership, which was announced at the Singapore Fintech Festival,
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