The Brunei Darussalam Central Bank (BDCB) and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to…
Year: 2023
Global payments firm BPC announced the appointment of Furrukh Ali Baig as Managing Director for the South Asian region. Ali…
Independent Reserve, a cryptocurrency exchange licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has appointed Lasanka Perera as CEO for…
FWD Group, a a pan-Asian life insurance business, has announced the appointment of Adrian Vincent as Chief Executive Officer for…
Grab and Singtel’s GXS Bank has appointed Muthukrishnan Ramaswami as its Group Chief Executive Officer, effective from 7 February. The…
Thailand has recently approved digital banking but has warned against irresponsible lending. This comes from the growing digital banking trend…
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are innovative, agile and drive competition. However, they’re often shuffled to the back of the…
The integration between HSBC Insurance Singapore and AXA Insurance is now complete and has begun operating as a combined entity -…
Even as much of the world experienced recessionary economic winds, the Vietnamese economy continued to be robust, even recording growth…
Ride-hailing giant and superapp Grab has appointed Member of Parliament (MP) Tin Pei Ling as its Director of Public Affairs…
As any crypto industry observer surely knows, 2022 was one of the most turbulent years since Bitcoin hit mainstream notoriety…
Climate change and sustainable development efforts are becoming a global movement for financial companies like they have for many businesses.…
MUFG Innovation Partners (MUIP) and MUFG Bank, subsidiaries of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), has set up a US$100 million…
Payments service provider FIS announced that it will power real-time payment transactions for Singapore’s digital bank Trust. Trust Bank will…
Funding to cryptocurrency companies plummeted 42.5% in 2022, plunging from an all-time high (ATH) of US$37.08 billion secured in 2021…
Fiserv, a payment solutions provider for merchants in Singapore, announced that its local operating entity has been granted a Major…
Samsung Wallet will be rolled out in eight new markets, including Singapore, Malaysia, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Brazil, and…
Southeast Asian superapp Grab announced that it has promoted Philipp Kandal to Chief Product Officer, effective 1 February 2023. As…
A majority of financial services firms now view digital transformation as essential to their business and are already looking to…
Singapore has seen an influx of startups and venture capital in recent years. Several factors have contributed to this –…