Fintech firms in ASEAN are not unaffected by the employment cuts hitting the headlines this year. Compared to 2021, when…
Year: 2022
The world of financial services is in a state of constant change, with many traditional banks across the Asia Pacific,…
OCBC Bank announced the appointment of veteran banker Noel Gerald DCruz as Group Chief Risk Officer from 1 January 2023,…
Singapore’s state-owned investor Temasek announced that it has decided to write down its full investment in collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX,…
In a dramatic turn of events, FTX filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States, with CEO and founder Sam…
Google Wallet has now been extended to three additional Southeast Asian countries – Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia – making it…
Over the past year, 43 new digital challenger banks have been launched around the world, bringing the total number of…
The fall of FTX last week will have “cascading effects” on the broader cryptocurrency industry with more companies possibly going…
Social live streaming platform Bigo Live has partnered with crypto payment gateway TripleA to enable their users to top up…
Cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance’s Chief Executive Officer Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao announced plans for an industry recovery fund amidst FTX’s staggering…
A vast majority of the populations in the emerging markets of Southeast Asia, Latin America, and India are at the…
Global enterprise software firm R3 has partnered with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to explore the use of distributed ledger…
HSBC announced the official opening of its new head office at Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 2 (MBFC) as part…
Global private market exchange ADDX announced that it has raised approximately US$20 million in an upsized Pre-Series B round led…
India’s Central Bank has been digitising the country’s payment process at a rapid speed. The digital payment index (DPI), a metric…
Five central banks in ASEAN announced that they have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on regional payment…
Indonesian digital signature and identity provider Privy announced that it has secured US$48 million in a Series C funding round…
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s New York Innovation Center (NYIC) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced…
The Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) this year brought together more than 62,000 participants from over 115 countries, emerging as its…
Women have made great strides in the financial sector in recent years. However, they are still woefully underrepresented in leadership…