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Fintech Infographic of the Week: Making Investing More Accessible with Decentralized Finance

Across the globe, access to financial markets diverges dramatically from one country to another. While in the US about 52% of people are investing in the stock market, in emerging countries like India and Mexico, the figure drops significantly with

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9 Online Forums To Discuss Personal Finance and Trading in Asia

The web is full of resources when it comes to personal finance and investing but what exactly are the most relevant, popular forums on the topic available out there? We look today at nine of the best personal finance and

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Revolut Gobbles Up Former Uber Eats Executive As Singapore Launch Looms

Just a few years ago, everyone and their mothers in tech wanted to brand themselves as “the Uber of [insert industry]”. It was an easy shorthand to refer to an agile new business looking to overthrow entrenched establishments in an

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Revolut Wants to Hire More Singaporeans Because of Brexit

Against the backdrop of a looming Brexit on March 29th and the need for Revolut to ramp its hiring activities, its founder Nik Storonsky has voiced its concerns over the British government’s lack of progress on the fast tracking of

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Personal Finance Site DollarsAndSense Acquires Local Startup FundMyLife

Popular personal finance website DollarsAndSense announced the acquisition of local financial planning startup fundMyLife. With the acquisition of fundMyLife, DollarsAndSense will add to its growing media business a financial planning platform for consumers. The move will also give the company

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With Britain Done, Can Revolut Convince Asians to Try Neo-Banks?

Founded in 2015, Revolut is one of Britain’s fastest-growing fintech players, now valued at US$1.7 billion, serving its Apple-levels cult following of 2.8 million users across 28 markets in Europe. Revolut claim to fame is a payments card that offers

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eToro: Ripple was the Hottest Product For 2018

Some claim that 2018 was the worst investment year in recent times. It was full of market volatility and economic downturns, and many investors now look back with regret at profits that were wiped out, or chances that were lost.

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OCBC Bank to Offer Free Online Will Writing Service in Singapore

OCBC Bank has rolled out a free online service to help Singapore citizens and residents aged 21 and above prepare their own wills within 10 minutes. It is common here to seek the help of a lawyer, who typically charges

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Standard Chartered Goes Instant Messaging with Clients in Singapore and HK

Standard Chartered is introducing new secure instant messaging and file-sharing features on mobile, tablet and laptop. Private and Priority Banking clients will now be able to interact with their Private Bankers and Relationship Managers to share banking-related and personal information

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Ayondo Goes CFD Trading in Cambodia

ayondo Markets Limited, and Phnom Penh Derivative Exchange are establishing a collaboration through a white label agreement for ayondo to provide its CFD Trading platform TradeHub as the main execution base for derivative brokers trading CFDs for PPDE’s clients in