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Mastercard’s Study Shows That Buy Now, Pay Later Is Rising in Popularity in APAC
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) options are rising in popularity in Asia-Pacific (APAC) where consumers are increasingly turning to these payment arrangements to pay for bigger-ticket items like electronics and appliances, findings from a Mastercard study show. A survey conducted
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Monetising in the Metaverse: Distant Possibility or Reality?
In the virtual world of the metaverse, people don’t just visit – they inhabit. It’s a place where they can be whoever they want to be and do whatever they want. The term ‘metaverse’ was first coined in a book
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Embedded Finance vs. BaaS in Financial Services
In recent years, the financial services industry has undergone a significant transformation. Traditional financial institutions face new competition from startups leveraging technology to offer innovative financial products and services, broadly referred to as the fintech landscape. But there is a
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Top 10 Highlights from Last Week’s Singapore Fintech Festival
The seventh edition of the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF), one of the world’s largest annual fintech events, kicked off on October 31, 2022 as an in-person event at the Singapore Expo. This year’s event, themed “Building Resilient Business Models amid
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Google Cloud Establishes Advisory Board for Its Point Carbon Zero Programme
Google Cloud has announced three key updates under the Point Carbon Zero Programme in today’s Singapore Fintech Festival 2022. Jointly launched with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in July, the programme aims to catalyse the incubation and adoption of
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Mobilewalla Latest Offering Helps Lenders Extend Loans to Thin-File Consumers
Consumer intelligence company Mobilewalla has launched LendBetter, its newest offering for digital lenders, at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2022. LendBetter provides digital lenders access to a repository of global consumer information to help them improve their credit assessment and customer
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MAS Initiates Digital Singapore Dollar Trials
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published a report detailing potential uses of a purpose-bound digital Singapore dollar (SGD) and the supporting infrastructure required. The report also marked the successful completion of Phase 1 of Project Orchid which explored
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Alta Acquires Hg Exchange to Provide Tokenisation and Digital Custody Services
Alternative assets marketplace Alta, previously known as Fundnel, has acquired private digital securities exchange Hg Exchange (HGX) to enable it to provide tokenisation and digital custody services. Alta has generated over US$600 million in transactions, created access to over US$22
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Must-Attend Sessions at the 2022 Singapore Fintech Festival
The annual Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) is returning this year from November 02 to 04, 2022 as an in-person event, promising to bring together tens of thousands of participants to discuss some of the industry’s most pressing challenges and hottest
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How Well Are Insurtechs Plugging Vietnam’s Coverage Protection Gaps?
The insurance market in Vietnam has grown along with the country’s surge to economic prominence in recent years. During the 1990s, only general insurance was offered by the state-owned insurance group Bao Viet. It was only in 1995 that life
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