Tag "Thunes"
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
Read More
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
Read More
Proxtera Launches a Multi-Currency Exchange for ASEAN and African Currencies
Proxtera has launched the beta version of a multi-currency exchange platform, the Emerging Markets Currency Exchange or EMCX, in partnership with WorldFirst, Liquid Group, Thunes and Wise. The EMCX digital hub is being trialed by Singapore SMEs trading across Africa
Read More
Visa Direct Connects With Thunes to Expand Its Reach to Nearly 7 Billion Endpoints
Visa announced that it has partnered with global payments company Thunes to help individuals and small businesses move money internationally across 44 countries and territories in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This collaboration adds a cross-border send-to-wallet capability to the
Read More
Thunes Ramps up Commitment to ESG With Global Initiatives
Singapore-based global payments company Thunes announced its affiliation with two global ESG initiatives, namely the United Nations Global Compact and Ecovadis. Earlier this year, Thunes said that it had successfully passed sustainability assessments and submitted respective reports to both institutions.
Read More
Thunes Snaps up Majority Stake in Regtech Firm Tookitaki for US$20 Million
Global cross-border payments firm Thunes announced that it has taken a majority stake in the anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance technology firm, Tookitaki, by making an investment of over US$20 million. Thunes made this move in the wake of rising
Read More
Thunes Partners With UK’s Clearpay to Offer Its Merchants the BNPL Solution
Global cross-border payments firm Thunes announced a partnership with the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services provider Afterpay, known as Clearpay in the UK and Europe. Thunes can now offer Clearpay’s BNPL solution to its network of gateways, merchants and
Read More
Thunes Sets up Miami Hub to Deepen Presence in Latin America
Global cross-border payments firm Thunes is speeding up its global expansion by setting up a regional hub in Miami to expand into new Latin American markets. Thunes has established regional payout partnerships that are available in 16 Latin American countries,
Read More
Thunes to Scale up Its Operations in the Greater China
Global payments network Thunes announced plans to significantly accelerate the expansion of its operations in Greater China, spanning mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau. This news follows the recent appointment of Daphne Huang, Senior Vice President for Greater China,
Read More
Thunes Appoints Payments Expert Biren Zandani to Accelerate Growth in APAC
Global cross-border payments company Thunes announced that it has appointed Biren Zandani as the SVP for Asia Pacific (APAC). Biren, based in Singapore, is a recognised payments expert with over 20 years of experience in financial services, particularly B2B, B2P,
Read More