FinTech

SINGAPORE (May 16): A Singapore central bank-backed fintech firm, CCRManager, on Tuesday launched what it says is the first digital platform for the distribution of international trade financing, transactions now handled mainly by phone and email.

SINGAPORE (March 31): Marvelstone Capital plans to launch a new robo-advisor platform in 3Q this year, which is to be available on desktop and mobile for the asset management company’s clients.

SINGAPORE (March 13): The financial regulatory bodies of Singapore and Japan have reached an agreement to enhance FinTech linkages between the two countries.

SINGAPORE (March 9): A proof-of-concept project on the use of distributed ledger technology  to conduct domestic interbank payments has come to a successful conclusion, announced the Monetary Authority of Singapore on Thursday in a press statement.

SINGAPORE (Dec 12): Every now and then, you see a media story somewhere about China’s ascendancy as a global fintech, or financial technology, player. The truth is that China has dominated the world’s fintech scene for nearly three years now and indee

Singapore is a financial centre with gleaming towers full of banks. The world’s leading banks adorn the skyline. The bankers are cosmopolitan and hail from Greenland to New Zealand.

SINGAPORE (Nov 16): The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that it has published the “regulatory sandbox” guidelines for financial technology (fintech) experiments after public consultations and learning points from other sandboxes.

SINGAPORE (Nov 14): DBS Group Holdings on Monday officially opened DBS Asia X, a 16,000 sf innovation space at Sandcrawler Building in Fusionpolis that features co-working spaces for up to 100 people. The new facility is part of DBS’ plan to develop a F

SINGAPORE (Oct 24): China’s fintech companies are coming out tops among leading fintech innovators globally, with 4 out of the five best companies coming from the country.

BLOOMBERG (Oct 14): Preoccupied by ultra-low interest rates in much of the industrialised world, the financial industry risks being blindsided by an even bigger challenge, according to Russian central bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina.