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SC Ventures Spins off Audax, Kelvin Tan Leads as CEO
SC Ventures, the innovation, fintech investment, and ventures arm of Standard Chartered, has spin off audax Financial Technology as a digital banking technology solutions provider. Previously, audax’s solution powered Standard Chartered nexus (SC nexus), a white-label plug-and-play BaaS offering for large
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StanChart and SMU Launches Women in Entrepreneurship Incubator
Standard Chartered Bank has launched a new Women in Entrepreneurship Incubator in partnership with Singapore Management University’s (SMU) Lien Centre for Social Innovation. The Incubator is funded by the bank’s US$300,000 donation to the university to support female entrepreneurship focused
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SC Ventures Invests in Financial Planning Advisor BetterTradeOff
BetterTradeOff (BTO), a Singaporean fintech offering online financial advisor solution, has secured an undisclosed sum from Standard Chartered’s investment arm SC Ventures, according to a report by The Edge Singapore. Standard Chartered Bank has an existing partnership with BTO in
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The Growing Threat of Cybercrime as a Service to Asia’s Financial Institutions
The growth of internet usage, online banking, and digitalization of financial services has increased cybercrime and cyber criminals’ attack surface. Financial institutions are a prime target for cyber-attacks due to the large amounts of data and money they hold. In
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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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Meet the 36 SFF Global Fintech Awards Winners
36 companies and individuals have been selected as winners of the SFF Global Fintech Awards 2022 under the theme “Embracing Digital, Charting the New Normal”. The winners, which were announced during the Singapore Fintech Festival’s Fintech Awards Dinner, were selected
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SC Ventures Partners SBI Holdings to Expand Investment Portfolio and Global Footprint
Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm SC Ventures announced that it had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SBI Holdings. The MOU was inked to expand both their portfolios at a business and geographic level as
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SC Ventures Rolls Out Bank-Agnostic Supply Chain Finance Platform
SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, has announced the launch of Trade and Supply Chain Connect (TASConnect). TASConnect is a bank-agnostic supply chain finance platform that provides end to end automation, visibility and control of organisations’
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Standard Chartered’s VC Arm Participated in AI Firm’s US$40 Million Round
Digital Reasoning, today announced a strategic investment from SC Ventures, the innovation, ventures and fintech investments unit of Standard Chartered Bank, bringing its Series D-1 funding round total to $40 million. In addition to this investment, Digital Reasoning will partner
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SoCash Sees Participation from Vertex Ventures in its US$ 6 Million Series B Round
SoCash, a Singapore based fintech announced today that it has raised US$ 6 Million in its Series B funding round led by Japan based cashed automation player Glory Ltd and participated by Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures alongside Vertex Ventures. SoCash’s
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