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Winners of The MAS Fintech Awards & Global Fintech Hackcelerator Announced
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) today awarded 10 FinTech companies a total of S$1.15 million at the FinTech Awards. Reflecting the growth in the FinTech ecosystem, this year’s winning solutions span
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OurCrowd Appoints Banking Veteran As Managing Director
OurCrowd, an equity crowdfunding platform, today announced the appointment of Mr. Roland Wee as Managing Director of the company’s Asia operations. Roland will serve as a key addition to its senior leadership team to spearhead its continued growth and success
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Monetary Authority of Singapore’s MD Says The Future is Already Here
In his opening remarks at the Singapore Fintech Festival, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore says that the future is already here. The world that we live in today is becoming increasingly digital and that is
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Singapore Fuels Its Artificial Intelligence Ambitions with $27 Million Grant
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced details of the new $27 million Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (AIDA) Grant under the Financial Sector Technology and Innovation (FSTI) Scheme. Mr Ravi Menon, Managing Director of MAS, announced the launch of
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2 Singaporean Fintech Firms Emerged as Top 50 in the Fintech100 List
Two Singapore-based fintech companies – Silent8 and SoCash – feature among ‘Emerging 50’ most promising fintech companies in the 2017 Fintech100 released today. The Fintech100 includes the ‘Leading 50’ fintech firms around the globe, ranked based on innovation, capital raising
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MAS & ABS: Releases Project Ubin Blockchain Source Code to Encourage Innovation
The industry consortium led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has released the report and source-codes on Project Ubin the distributed ledger prototypes for inter-bank payments. The report : ‘Re-imagining Interbank
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Singapore ICO Guideline Released: Issuers May Apply for Sandbox
In light of the increased popularity of ICOs in Singapore, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published today their guidelines for digital token offerings, more popularly known as ICOs. The guidelines states that if the token is used as a capital
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Singapore’s NETS Joins Forces with India’s NPCI
NETS today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with National Payments Corporationof India (NPCI), an umbrella organization for all retail payments and settlement systems in India, to enable cross-border usage of their payment solutions in India and
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Lessons From Singapore’s Fintech Sandbox
The past few years have seen the introduction of the fintech sandbox from regulators around the globe. Singapore introduced its version of the fintech sandbox in June 2016, and since then there were more than 30 application from fintech startups
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Singapore Fintech Map 2017
As one of the earlier observers of the Fintech Singapore space, the speed in which is has grown is simply breathtaking. In a short span of these few years the regulators, investors and fintech community have jointly worked together towards
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