FinTech

Whether you think it is a boom or a bubble, the surge in tech stocks has focused minds on how technology can impact our lives.

In the early 1990s,18-year-old Maksymilian Levchin, a Ukrainian-American student at the University of Illinois and a Chernobyl nuclear disaster survivor, maxed out on his credit card, co-signed by

Payments infrastructure provider PPRO has raised US$180 million ($239.31 million) in new investment from Eurazeo Growth, Sprints Capital and Wellington Management.

FinTech startup Pace Enterprise announced its launch today with a “buy now, pay later” solution, headed by veteran entrepreneur Turochas “T” Fuad, previously of Spacemob and Travelmob.

Singapore’s Sea Ltd., the tech startup that’s become Southeast Asia’s most valuable company, has acquired Indonesia’s PT Bank Kesejahteraan Ekonomi, according to people familiar with the matter.

Few could have predicted the disruption wrought by the coronavirus in 2020.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Hungry’s Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) have signed a co-operation agreement (CA) to strengthen ties in FinTech innovation between both countries.

Financial technology’s (FinTech) purpose was increasingly evident during Singapore’s Covid-19 “circuit breaker”. Although economic activity slowed, FinTech kept parts of the economy ticking.

Senior vice president of Asia Pacific and Japan at BlackLine, Terry Smagh, is no stranger to going the extra mile.

Ant Group, parent company of China’s largest mobile payments business Alipay, has launched Trusple, a blockchain-based trade processing platform for SMEs and banks.