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Ripple Backs Philippine-Focused Remittance Firm SendFriend in $1.7M Funding
SendFriend, a Philippine-focused remittance market startup, has raised up to US$1.7 million capital in a venture round backed by blockchain giant Ripple also known as the cryptocurrency XRP. Other leading investors include the MIT Lab, Mastercard Foundation, Barclays, Techstars, Mahindra
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Cryptomining Malware: A Growing Epidemic
Cryptocurrency malware isn’t a new term in the recent past. Cryptojacking has ballooned in popularity among cybercriminals since last year, despite a bearish market. Cryptomining malware or cryptojacking is hidden software that infects victims’ devices with JavaScript code, harnessing their
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What Happened to Fintech Singapore’s Previous Pick of Hottest Fintech Startups?
In mid 2016, after sifting through copious amounts of reports, studies and our own internal evaluations we’ve come up with a definitive list of the 30 hottest fintech startups in Singapore. (an updated list for 2019 is also available here)
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Chief Innovation Officer, Neal Cross Bids Farewell to DBS Bank in Heartfelt Post
With a LinkedIn post, Neal Cross announces that he has ended his tenure as DBS Bank’s Chief Innovation Officer. He is considered thought leader in the innovation space, and is famous for evangelising fintech in Singapore before it congealed into a strong sector
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Meet 42 Mobile Payment Players Active in Singapore Right Now
As one of the most highly banked populations in Southeast Asia (Standing at 96.4% of banked adults at 2014), Singapore presents a unique ecosystem in the same region. This is part of why Singapore is popularly deemed as one of
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In Thailand you can Pay now with your Smartwatch “Garmin Pay”
Siam Commercial Bank has introduced the Garmin Pay contactless payment solution. This has been done in collaboration with CDG Group, sole distributor of Garmin products in Thailand and MasterCard and Visa. With a virtual SCB MasterCard or Visa credit card added to
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17 E-Wallets in The Philippines You Should Know
“A way to carry your money inside your cellphone”. This is perhaps the simplest meaning of an e-wallet as defined by Philippine-based mobile money service GCash. For the past few years, different companies such as telcos, banks, fintech startups, financial
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Top Funded Fintechs in Asia By Country
With the existence of such a huge region with huge swaths of unbanked and uninsured populations, investors are waking up to the potential that Asia has in fintech. According to Bain & Company, 2017 saw a sharp spike of recorded
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Highlights of the Singapore Fintech Festival 2018
The 2018 Singapore Fintech Festival, which took place from November 12 to 16, 2018, brought together more than 40,000 participants from over 100 countries in the biggest gathering of the global fintech community ever. This year’s agenda was rich in
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Top 28 Fintech and Insurtech Innovation Labs in Singapore
Singapore, which has set out to become one of the leading fintech hubs in the world, has witnessed the establishment of dozens of innovations labs in recent years as banks and foreign tech firms are looking to capitalize on the
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