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LINE Launches “Social Banking” Platform with Thailand’s KASIKORNBANK
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LINE Launches “Social Banking” Platform with Thailand’s KASIKORNBANK

Social media platform and messaging app LINE has launched LINE BK which is powered by KASIKORNBANK, for the first “social banking” platform in Thailand. LINE’s push into financial services in Thailand is far from its first, in Taiwan, LINE was

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Digital Banking Heats up in Vietnam Amid COVID-19, Booming E-Commerce Sector
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Digital Banking Heats up in Vietnam Amid COVID-19, Booming E-Commerce Sector

In Vietnam, digital banking development is accelerating on the back of rapid fintech adoption, a booming e-commerce industry and the COVID-19 pandemic. Social distancing measures put in place to prevent the spread of the virus have pushed consumers towards online

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Irish Biometrics and Identity Software Company Hires for New Singapore Office
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Irish Biometrics and Identity Software Company Hires for New Singapore Office

Daon announced the appointment of Trilochan Sehgal as Regional Vice President, South East Asia, and the opening of a new office in Singapore. The announcement affirms the importance of South East Asia to Daon and places the company in a

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Competition Heats up in Australia’s Neobanks, Digital Banks Market
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Competition Heats up in Australia’s Neobanks, Digital Banks Market

Since 2019, a wave of digital banks have arrived in Australia on a back of favorable legislation changes which took place in 2018. Today, Australia is home to five independent, licensed neobanks, in addition to a plethora of digital banking

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Connecting People With Finance: Empowering the Financial Industry in the Intelligent Mobile Era
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Connecting People With Finance: Empowering the Financial Industry in the Intelligent Mobile Era

In the intelligent mobile era, Huawei — with its vision, insights, solutions, ecosystems, and experts — is uniquely positioned to create new value. The global outbreak of COVID- 19 has disrupted the lives and businesses of countless people, and the

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Open Banking, Data Protection Laws Bring in New Challenges for Digital Banks and Incumbents
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Open Banking, Data Protection Laws Bring in New Challenges for Digital Banks and Incumbents

Open banking, one of the hottest topics in financial services today, is bringing in new challenges and risks that both traditional financial institutions and fintech companies must address swiftly, said Frederik Mennes, director of product security at cybersecurity firm OneSpan.

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Razer Fintech Turns to Perx to Enhance Its Gamification Strategy
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Razer Fintech Turns to Perx to Enhance Its Gamification Strategy

Razer Fintech, the financial arm of Razer Inc., has partnered with Singapore-based lifestyle marketing SaaS (Software as a Service) platform, Perx Technologies, to enhance its mobile-first customer engagement in the financial services industry. This partnership will purportedly enable Razer Fintech

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Huawei Developer Conference: Brett King Talks Financial Inclusion, Banking 4.0, and More
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Huawei Developer Conference: Brett King Talks Financial Inclusion, Banking 4.0, and More

At the 2020 Huawei Developer Conference held earlier this week, fintech influencer, best-selling author, and entrepreneur Brett King joined the finance tech.session to talk about the role of technology to improve financial inclusion and shared his views on how banking

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Finance Needs to Be Redefined for Good to Serve One Billion of Asia’s Unbanked
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Finance Needs to Be Redefined for Good to Serve One Billion of Asia’s Unbanked

As a catalyst for digitalization, COVID-19 will further help improve financial inclusion in emerging economies, according to Wissam Khoury, head of international at Finastra. Home to an unbanked population of about 1 billions, Asia has experienced a boom in fintech

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Nearly 1.5M Underbanked Filipinos Onboarded With RCBC’s DiskarTech App
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Nearly 1.5M Underbanked Filipinos Onboarded With RCBC’s DiskarTech App

With over 2 million mobile app downloads in two months, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) has pushed for digital adoption, recording more than 1.43 million new accounts onboarded digitally during the lockdown. An estimated 610,000 DiskarTech basic deposit account holders

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