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Grab Hires Ex-Acvtivision Blizzard Veteran Peter Oey as Chief Financial Officer

Grab, announced today that it has strengthened its finance division by hiring corporate finance veteran, Peter Oey, as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Oey brings over 20 years of corporate financial and strategic planning experience to Grab, joining from legal technology

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Grab Collaborates with IMDA to Pilot its Accelerator Programme

Grab and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) today announced a partnership to pilot Grab Ventures Ignite (GVI), a 14-week accelerator programme, for Singapore-based startups with interest to venture overseas. The Singapore pilot of GVI will focus on high potential

Mobile Payments

Grab Picks Wirecard to Process its Transactions in Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore

Wirecard is entering into a payments partnership with Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading super app, that will see Wirecard process transactions made via the GrabPay e-wallet, starting with the Malaysian, the Philippines and the Singapore markets. Through this partnership, Wirecard will

Vietnam

Grab Launches Early-Stage Startup Accelerator in Vietnam

Grab, today announced the launch of Grab Ventures Ignite, an accelerator programme for early-stage startups, which it said is a part of the Grab for Good development roadmap in Vietnam which aims to create greater social and economic benefits for

Top Picks Virtual Banking

Here Are The Contenders to Singapore’s Digital Banking Race

Singapore’s digital banking license was perhaps one of the most widely discussed topic in 2019 within fintech circles and we suspect 2020 will not be too different with MAS anticipated to issue licenses by mid-2020. There were many speculations as

Wealthtech

Grab Moves into Robo-Advisory with Acquisition of Bento

Grab today announced the acquisition of Bento a Singapore-based robo-advisory start-up for an undisclosed sum, that will allow Grab to offer retail wealth management solutions to users, driver-partners and merchant-partners, via the Grab app. With the acquisition, Bento will be

Lending

How Grab Is Breaking Into the Lending Space in Their Lead up to Be a Digital Bank

Singapore-headquartered superapp Grab has begun offering loans and credit lines to businesses in the city state. Under the GrabFinance brand, the tech company is now providing local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with quick and accessible funding. Business owners can

InsurTech

Grab Enables In-App Travel Insurance for As Low as $1 Per Day

Grab and Chubb announced today the launch of Travel Cover — an on-demand travel insurance service that Grab users can purchase within the app. The product is distributed by GrabInsure Insurance Agency, Grab Financial Group’s insurance platform. Starting from today, a

Mobile Payments

Grab’s New GrabPay Card is Completely Numberless

Grab announced today the launch of their GrabPay Card which is available in Singapore starting today. The physical card is completely numberless front and back, the thinking behind this design according to Grab is to avert the prospect of theft

Indonesia Mobile Payments

Grab Reportedly Eyeing to Merge OVO and Dana in a Bid to Compete with Gojek

Ride-hailing giant and super-app aspirant Grab is rumoured to be in talks to merge Indonesian digital payments firm OVO with DANA in which Grab is eyeing to acquire a majority interest in. Currently, Grab already own shares in OVO and