Asia Pacific accounts for 55% of the global trade finance’s volume. As the region’s trade grows, so does the financing…
Year: 2022
Insurance group Manulife’s wealth management arm has partnered with Singapore-based ESG fintech STACS to monitor the underlying quality of its…
Singapore wants to be a crypto hub, but only if it means being a hub for sound and well-regulated tokenised…
Fazz financial group’s StraitsX and Grab are testing the issuance of Purpose Bound Money (PBM) with 5,000 trial participants during…
The airasia Super App, a digital venture of Capital A, completes its ASEAN expansion plans for 2022 with its official…
Ant Group’s Alipay+ announced during the Singapore Fintech Festival 2022 that its merchant coverage has more than doubled to 2.5…
Brunei’s Baiduri Bank has partnered with banking software company Temenos to operate its core banking platform in the cloud under…
Ant Group has officially launched Alipay+ D-store, a digitalisation solution for the service industry and brick-and-mortar businesses, at the Singapore…
Google Cloud has announced three key updates under the Point Carbon Zero Programme in today’s Singapore Fintech Festival 2022. Jointly…
Blockchain payments company Pundi X has launched XPOS Web 3.0, a point-of-sale machine which supports crypto payments made using third-party…
DBS announced that it is testing the trading of foreign exchange and government securities using permissioned DeFi liquidity pools on…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today launched Ubin+, an expanded collaboration with international partners on cross-border foreign exchange (FX)…
Standard Chartered announced today at the Singapore Fintech Festival that it has made an investment in Partior and is now…
BigPay, a Southeast Asian challenger bank and Capital A venture company, has launched its crypto top-up feature without any hidden…
ANEXT Bank, Singapore’s digital wholesale bank and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ant Group, will collaborate with industry specialists to expand…
BIS Innovation Hub is launching a project around central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and Decentralised Finance (DeFi) protocols as part…
Terrascope, a smart carbon measurement and management platform, announced its strategic partnerships with DBS Bank, ERM, and Workiva in its…
Providing banker’s guarantees or insurance bonds to government agencies in Singapore can now be done online and within one day…
Crypto payment infrastructure company StraitsX is piloting a series of stablecoin applications at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2022 to showcase…
The Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE) announced the release of its SHIME skills framework, aimed at assisting individuals,…