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Sleek’s Foray into Singapore’s Dynamic SME Digital Finance Space
Sleek, an online corporate services provider, is looking to expand its footprint in Singapore’s vibrant small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) digital banking space, announcing on June 13, 2022, the launch of an array of new products designed to complement its
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4 Trends That Will Shape Financial Services in a Post-COVID World
The groundswell of digitalisation that forced whole industries and services online in 2020 during the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, only continued growing in 2021 despite the return to office-based work and vaccine rollouts across the globe. Corporations, SMEs,
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Vietnam’s Banking Execs Call for Open Banking Framework
In Vietnam, although financial institutions have realised the potential of open banking to enable more inclusive and accessible financial services, a patchy legal framework is hampering their efforts to join the data revolution. Praising the opportunities brought about data sharing,
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Here Are Indonesia’s Most Well-Funded Fintechs
These past years have seen Indonesia emerging into one of the hottest fintech markets in Southeast Asia, attracting local and foreign investors with the prospect of leveraging technology to address the massive pool of unbanked and underbanked individuals. In 2021,
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Singapore’s First Wholesale Digital Bank GLDB Goes Live
The Green Link Digital Bank (GLDB), one of the winners of Singapore’s digital banking licenses, has officially commenced its operations. The consortium behind GLDB comprising Greenland Financial Holdings and Linklogis Hong Kong was awarded one of the two digital wholesale
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24 Fintech Founders And Investors Make Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Asia 2022 List
Forbes has released its annual 30 Under 30 Asia list, recognizing 300 young entrepreneurs, leaders and trailblazers in Asia Pacific (APAC), all under the age of 30, across 10 different categories. In Finance & Venture Capital, the 30 honorees include
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Why B2B Payments Is The Next Big Domino in APAC’s Fintech Innovation Wave
In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, a 2020 McKinsey report projected that Asia’s payments sector would be well positioned to exceed US$1 trillion in annual revenue by 2022 or 2023, despite also forecasting a temporary 1-8% decline in Asia’s
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Indonesia’s Incumbent BRI Pushes BRImo Mobile App as Part of Its Digital Banking Drive
Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), one of Indonesia’s oldest and largest financial institutions, has embarked on a major digital transformation plan by embracing data, innovative technology and industry partnerships to address changing customer expectations. BRI’s big digital push takes the form
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Combating Fraud While Creating a Frictionless Payment Experience
Online shopping, which was already experiencing massive surges prior to the pandemic, added hundreds of millions more e-commerce customers over the last two years, as both merchants and buyers pivoted online to survive while social distancing. A Google-Bain report found
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Is Southeast Asia Entering Its Golden Age of Fintech?
Despite limited access to traditional banking services, rising smartphone penetration and rapid e-commerce growth have led to an increase in the use of digital financial services in Southeast Asia. Today, the region is emerging as a hotspot for fintech innovation
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