Tag "Singapore Fintech Festival"
Nominations for SFF’s Global Fintech Awards Are Now Open
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Singapore Fintech Association (SFA) are calling for nominations for the Global Fintech Awards at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2023 (SFF). In its eighth year, the awards, supported by PwC Singapore, seek to
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MAS Now Accepting Applications for AI-Focused Global Fintech Hackcelerator 2023
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched today the 8th edition of the Global Fintech Hackcelerator where finalists will pitch their solutions during Demo Day at this year’s Singapore Fintech Festival. Titled “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Finance Global Challenge”,
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Singapore Fintech Festival 2022 Saw Its Largest Turnout With Over 62,000 Participants
The Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) this year brought together more than 62,000 participants from over 115 countries, emerging as its largest gathering to date since the inaugural edition in 2016. SFF 2022 featured more than 850 speakers from private and
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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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Manulife Uses STACS’ ESGpedia to Monitor Its Sustainable Investments
Insurance group Manulife’s wealth management arm has partnered with Singapore-based ESG fintech STACS to monitor the underlying quality of its sustainable investments. Manulife will leverage STACS’ ESGpedia to monitor its investments in sustainability-labelled bonds through visibility of the underlying certifications
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Ravi Menon Lays Out Singapore’s Crypto Hub Ambitions at SFF 2022
Singapore wants to be a crypto hub, but only if it means being a hub for sound and well-regulated tokenised and digital assets with value-adding use cases, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). This means discouraging retail investment
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Grab Participates in StraitsX’s Pilot Use of Tokenised Digital Vouchers at SFF 2022
Fazz financial group’s StraitsX and Grab are testing the issuance of Purpose Bound Money (PBM) with 5,000 trial participants during Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) as one of four trials under MAS’ Project Orchid. Participants will be able to utilise PBM
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Alipay+ Announces 2.5 Million Merchant Milestone at Singapore Fintech Festival
Ant Group’s Alipay+ announced during the Singapore Fintech Festival 2022 that its merchant coverage has more than doubled to 2.5 million merchants. By sector, this includes over 1,000 online platforms, 10 major airports, 90,000 convenience stores, 360,000 restaurants, 200,000 taxis,
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Ant Group Launches Alipay+ Digital Store Solutions
Ant Group has officially launched Alipay+ D-store, a digitalisation solution for the service industry and brick-and-mortar businesses, at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2022. Alipay+ D-store is described as a solution which businesses can use to build digital stores across multiple
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Google Cloud Establishes Advisory Board for Its Point Carbon Zero Programme
Google Cloud has announced three key updates under the Point Carbon Zero Programme in today’s Singapore Fintech Festival 2022. Jointly launched with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in July, the programme aims to catalyse the incubation and adoption of
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