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Top 10 Highlights from Last Week’s Singapore Fintech Festival
The seventh edition of the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF), one of the world’s largest annual fintech events, kicked off on October 31, 2022 as an in-person event at the Singapore Expo. This year’s event, themed “Building Resilient Business Models amid
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Rapyd Powers PromptPay Acceptance on Google Play Thailand
Global Fintech-as-a-Service platform Rapyd enables PromptPay, Thailand’s national payment service with 55.1 million registered users with 20 million transactions a day, as a payment option on Google Play. Rapyd supports local payments for Google in the country through its collaboration with
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3 Ways Singapore Is Trailblazing the Cross-Borders Payments Scene
As digitalization blurs the physical borders between countries, it is estimated that the total global cross-border payment flow can surpass USD156 trillion by 2022. In the European Union (EU), the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is a timely solution that
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Singapore and Thailand to Enable Cross Border Payments Using Only Mobile Numbers in 2021
During the Singapore Fintech Festival 2020, Ravi Menon, Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that the regulator has made significant headway in the linkage between Singapore’s and Thailand’s national payment systems; PayNow and PromptPay respectively. Monetary Authority of
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Bring Colour Back to the South East Asian Payments Landscape
For the global banking and finance industry, Southeast Asia (SEA) has established itself as a key region in terms of innovation and growth opportunities in real-time payments. Underlying this is the fact that SEA’s internet economy is projected to triple
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GrabPay Inks Thailand Partnership with Kasikorn Bank — Cements Presence in All 6 ASEAN Countries
Grab is ramping up its fintech ambitions, the company announced today that they have secured a strategic partnership with Kasikorn Bank, a major banking group in Thailand. In this partnership both parties will jointly introduce a co-branded mobile wallet dubbed
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