Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
Singtel has launched an insurance savings solution for consumers looking to start their savings journey. It is offered exclusively through Singtel’s Dash app and underwritten by Etiqa Insurance. This adds to their existing financial services which cu...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
Liquid Group, a regional mobile payment services group headquartered in Singapore, will partner with NICE Payments (“NICE”) as its merchant acquirer in Korea. Nice Payments, a subsidiary of NICE Information & technology, is the paymen...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) collaborates with UnionPay to launch the Huawei Pay in Thailand. Huawei Pay is a mobile payment tool that provides contactless, cashless payment service for HUAWEI device users. In Thailand, Industrial and Commercial Bank...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) announced that it has extended its free Instapay transfers or instant transfers between accounts of participating central bank-supervised banks and non-bank e-money issuers in the Philippines until the end of...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS) announced today that Lawrence Chan has been appointed Group Chief Executive Officer, with effect from 22 June 2020. Chan joins the NETS team with over two decades of payments experience, and a strong track reco...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
Visa today announced key findings on how the spending habits and behaviours of Singaporean consumers are changing as operating in the ‘new normal’ takes shape across the globe. These findings come from a Visa survey of consumers from across 40 countr...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
GBCI Ventures announced an US$11 Million investment into Fincy a fintech startup led by Douglas Gan, Vannesa Koh and Lim Ming Wang who are all from GBCI Ventures. In a media statement, they shared that Fincy is the venture capital firms new endeavour...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
Rapyd, a global Fintech as a Service company, has released its 2020 Asia Pacific eCommerce and Payment Study. The study analysed the financial habits, payment methods, considerations, and preferences of consumers in seven Asia Pacific countries, unco...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
TransferWise, announced today that its customers are currently holding £2 billion in deposits in the multi-currency accounts. TransferWise’s account has seen rapid adoption year-on-year by millions of expats, travellers, freelancers and businesses a...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
Grab announced today the launch of the GrabPay Card in the Philippines, a fully digital prepaid card powered by Mastercard that extends GrabPay’s reach globally with unparalleled card security, hassle-free online payments and expanded rewards ecosyst...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
Grab announced today the launch of the GrabPay Card in the Philippines, a digital-first prepaid card powered by Mastercard that extends GrabPay’s reach globally with unparalleled card security, hassle-free online payments and expanded rewards ecosyst...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
The past couple of decades have seen a complete upheaval in where we buy things and how we pay for them. New technologies have led to huge shifts in consumer behavior and expectation, while businesses have benefitted from faster and more efficient pr...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
Revolut, has bolstered its leadership team in Singapore with the appointment of a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Growth. This comes after it announced Martin Gilbert’s appointment as Chairman of its Board, who sat on th...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
In Asia Pacific (APAC), adoption of fintech applications including digital wallets is booming, according to a new study by Rapyd, a global Fintech as a Service company. Rapyd, which surveyed 3,500 online consumers in APAC in March and April 2020, fou...
Fintech / Payments - 3 years ago
During February and March, as many countries imposed or strengthened social distancing measures due to COVID-19, a significant majority of consumers turned to contactless card payments for necessary purchases. Citing safety and cleanliness, 79 percen...