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Why B2B Fintechs Are Ready for Prime Time
Until now, consumer fintech has been all the rage, but recent funding rounds and exits including Plaid’s US$5.3 billion sale to Visa, Social Finance (SoFi)’s US$1.2 billion acquisition of Galileo, and nCino’s initial public offering (IPO), might very well indicate
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Shopee and Visa Inks Five-Year Partnership to Boost the Digital Economy
Shopee, e-commerce platform, and Visa announced a five-year regional strategic partnership intended to encourage greater participation in South East Asia’s digital economy. They added that this partnership is part of Shopee’s mission to better the lives of individuals and businesses
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The First 25 Fintech Students Graduate from NUS Singapore
The pioneer batch of 25 students from the NUS-FinTechSG Programme, jointly developed by the NUS FinTech Lab and Strategic Technology Management Institute (STMI) graduated. All of the Singaporean students in the pioneer batch received either full-time positions or traineeships with
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hoolah Launches Buy Now Pay Later Solution for Physical Stores in Singapore
Singapore-based hoolah extended Buy Now Pay Later to an in-store solution that offers consumers the option of completing their purchases in three separate 0% interest monthly payments. This solution helps merchants solve some of their biggest challenges around driving conversion
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Interview: Blockchain Valley Ventures’ Expansion into Asia Pacific
Blockchain Valley Ventures recently welcomed Credit Suisse Private Banking’s former Global Head of Investments, Thomas Amstutz to the company as part of its growing presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Having both relocated from Switzerland to Singapore, Fintechnews.sg sat down with
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Finastra Leads Digital Banking Processing Platform List on Forrester’s Report
Finastra has topped the list on Digital Banking Processing Platforms (DBPP) for retail banking in a report released by independent research firm, Forrester. The report entitled “The Forrester Wave™: Digital Banking Processing Platforms (Retail Banking)” for the Q3 of 2020
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GoBear Lays Off 11% Staff in Cost Cutting Measures Several Months After Raising US$17 Mil
Singapore based fintech startup GoBear announced that it has laid off 11% of its workforce across its offices in Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam and Ukraine. A total of 22 staff members have been retrenched from its 200 strong workforce. GoBear’s CEO,
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UN Agencies Partners With Denmark to Leverage on Singapore’s Fintech Hub
Multiple UN agencies have joined hands with Copenhagen Fintech to bring Nordic fintech startups to Singapore to promote the exchange of innovation. The agencies involved are UNDP’s Global Center for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development in Singapore, UNDP’s Nordic Office and
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A Guide to Payment Regulations Across Asia Pacific
ASEAN Plus Group (APG), a group of law firms in Asia, has released a comprehensive guide to payment services regulations in Asia Pacific (APAC). The document, maps the latest state-of-play in the payments space in some of ASEAN’s biggest markets
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How One Singaporean Company Came to Dominate the SEO Industry
The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) industry is as old as search engines themselves, but it wasn’t all that complex pre-millennium. The algorithms that determined the search engine results have become much more nuanced, with a far greater amount of variables.
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