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Company announcement/payments

Ant International, Grab, and StraitsX debut cross-border stablecoin payment system,

StraitsX, the pioneering payments infrastructure for the digital assets space in Southeast Asia, has announced the official go-live of its groundbreaking initiative with Ant International and Grab.

05 November 2024

News/startups

Singtel-Grab launch Singapore digital bank

Telco Singtel and superapp Grab have launched GXS, Singapore's first digital bank for consumers and businesses.

01 September 2022

Company announcement/payments

Grab taps Adyen to extend BNPL offering across Southeast Asia

Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading super app, has deepened its partnership with Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, by enabling more merchants – starting in Singapore and Malaysia – to offer PayLater payment options to consumers, and address increasing consumer demand for deferred payment methods.

21 July 2021

News/people

Stripe and Grab execs join Southeast Asian fintech angel investor network

Senior executives from a host of fintech giants - including PayPal, Stripe and Grab - have banded together to launch an angel investment network that will look to put money into early-stage startups in Southeast Asia.

25 June 2021

Company announcement/payments

GrabPay to be offered to South East Asian users of Stripe

Stripe, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet, today announced a partnership with GrabPay, the leading digital wallet in Southeast Asia (SEA).

27 May 2021

Company announcement/markets

Grab clambers aboad Spac bandwagon with $34 billion deal

Grab Holdings Inc. (“Grab”), Southeast Asia’s leading superapp1, today announced it intends to go public in the U.S. in partnership with Altimeter Growth Corp. (Nasdaq: “AGC”) in what is expected to be the largest-ever U.S. equity offering by a Southeast Asian company.

13 April 2021

News/inclusion

Grab raises $300 million to grow fintech business

Singaporean ride-hailing app Grab has raised $300 million for its fast-expanding financial services unit.

14 January 2021

Company announcement

Citi to provide in-app lending with Grab

Citi, the largest pan-regional credit card issuer, and Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading super app, have expanded their partnership in consumer lending with the launch of the bank’s first API-enabled lending capability with Grab in Asia Pacific.

04 January 2021

News/regulation

Singapore doles out four digital bank licences

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has awarded full virtual banking licences to a Grab-Singtel consortium and tech giant Sea, and digital wholesale bank licences to Ant Group and a coalition comprising Greenland Financial Holdings Group, Linklogis Hong Kong, and Beijing Co-operative Equity Investment Fund Management.

04 December 2020

News/inclusion

Grab leads $100 million round in LinkAja

Grab has led a $100 million Series B round in Indonesian e-money institution LinkAja.

10 November 2020

News/retail

Grab goes deeper into financial services

South East Asian super app Grab has further extended its remit into financial services with the launch of its first micro-investment service, third-party loan platform and ‘buy-now-pay-later’ products for e-commerce websites

04 August 2020

Company announcement/payments

Grab and Wirecard forge payments partnership

Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, is entering into a payments partnership with Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading super app, that will see Wirecard process transactions made via the GrabPay e-wallet, starting with the Malaysian, the Philippines and the Singapore markets.

11 March 2020