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Thriving Amidst Challenges: A Look Into the Singapore Insurtech Industry
It’s not about the cards you’re dealt, but how you play the hand. That would be an accurate depiction of the insurtech industry in Singapore. Insurance has been a tough nut to crack, especially in the city-state. Singapore is home
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HK-Based AMTD Acquires Insurtech Startup PolicyPal
AMTD Digital, the digital finance arm of AMTD Group announced that it will acquire a controlling stake of PolicyPal, a company licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the first graduate of MAS fintech regulatory sandbox, which deepens the
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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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Why The Next Insurtech Unicorns Are Going to Come From Asia
We thought 2018 was going to become the year of the blockchain, and while the ledger is still a hot-button topic, the relatively older insurtech scene has risen to the top of the fintech pile thanks to a 2017 boost.
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8 Influential Singaporean Fintech Companies Hiring in October
It has been an up and down journey, but right now Singapore might be one of the best places to get a job in fintech. Known as one of Southeast Asia’s fintech hubs, we have quite a plethora of not
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WeWork unveiled its Singapore location / 2 Fintech Startups join
WeWork unveiled its inaugural Singapore location, WeWork Beach Centre. As the first Southeast Asia location, WeWork Beach Centre also signifies WeWork’s 200th location globally. WeWork Singapore will grow quickly as the company will launch its second location at 71 Robinson, slated
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InsurTech Is Disrupting Insurance Forever – Will There Still Be a Place for Human Financial Advisors?
Wave after wave of technological disruption has hit us in recent years and it looks like the insurance industry is next in line. Insurtech is the new tradename for an aggressively growing group of apps, software’s, and startups reinventing a
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7 Singapore FinTech Startups on Instagram
It’s probably not the first social media platform you would think of when it comes to FinTech startups, but Instagram is becoming an important place to be seen. So, let’s just get right to the point here without wasting any
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6 Recent Singapore Fintech Fundings
In 2016, overall investment in Singapore-based fintech companies dropped by 69%, falling from US$605 million in 2015 to US$186 million in 2016, according to KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech report. “In 2016, we saw the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) drive
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Singapore-Based Startup Raises Seed Funding from 500 Startups and Entering MAS FinTech Regulatory Sandbox
A Singapore digital insurance app that helps consumers organise all their insurance products in one place just raised money from 500 Startups and received approval from MAS to enter a regulatory sandbox. The startup will be testing their solution over a
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