Singapore Fintech Festival 2023
MAS to Issue “Live” Wholesale CBDCs to Settle Retail Payments Between Banks
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled a series of initiatives to ensure the secure and innovative use of digital money in the country. The three forms of digital money that MAS is promoting are wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies
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2023 Visa Accelerator Fintech Startups Stand Out at Singapore Demo Day
During the 2023 Singapore Fintech Festival, Visa showcased the progress of seven startups from its Asia Pacific Visa Accelerator Programme 2023. These startups, selected in May 2023, have been working on innovative solutions in digital payments, benefiting from Visa’s global
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Ravi Menon Announces Project Greenprint’s Next Phase with Gprnt Launch
Ravi Menon, the Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), unveiled the next phase of Project Greenprint, aimed at revolutionising the financial ecosystem with a new integrated platform named “Gprnt” at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2023. The Greenprint
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Temenos Joins Forces with MAS to Advance Sustainable Finance Through Gprnt
Temenos shared that it is the first core banking software vendor to collaborate with Gprnt, the newly launched integrated digital platform by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), aimed at advancing tech solutions and product development while exploring data integration within
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Philippines Showcases Fintech Presence with Bagong Pilipinas Pavilion at SFF 2023
The Philippines has marked its presence at the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) 2023 through the Bagong Pilipinas: The Philippines Country Pavilion, an initiative championed by Fintech Alliance.Ph. The Pavilion marks the latest foray of Filipino fintech at the world’s largest
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HSBC Business Go Insights and Networking Platform Debuts in Singapore
HSBC Singapore has announced the launch of HSBC Business Go at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2023. This digital community platform, aimed at business owners, incorporates machine-learning and API technologies to provide market and business insights. It also enables networking with
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Filipino Digital Bank Maya Taps TerraPay for Seamless Remittance
Payments infrastructure company TerraPay and Philippines’ digital bank Maya announced a strategic partnership at the Singapore Fintech Festival aimed at improving international remittances for Filipinos worldwide. As part of this partnership, users of the Maya app will be able to
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Sygnum Singapore Onboards Bordier & Cie as Inaugural B2B Client
Private bank Bordier & Cie (Singapore) has become the inaugural B2B client of Sygnum Singapore, marking a significant milestone for the latter, which received its MAS Major Payment Institutions license in October 2023. Sygnum Singapore recently launched its regulated Digital
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ST Engineering, Elevandi to Boost Digital, Cybersecurity Services for Financial Firms
Singaporean multinational company ST Engineering has announced plans to expand its digital and cybersecurity services, focusing on financial services organisations in Southeast Asia and Australia. The initiative aims to support these organisations in their digital transformation by integrating advanced technologies
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MAS Releases Executive Summary of Gen AI Risk Framework for Financial Sector
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has wrapped up the first phase of Project MindForge, an initiative aimed at creating a risk framework for the use Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) in the financial sector. MAS had released an executive
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