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News/crypto
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin graced the main stage at Singapore Fintech Festival to highlight successes since The Merge in September 2022.
04 November 2022
Day two of Singapore Fintech Festival kicked off with Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore on the global plenary stage highlighting that innovation and digitalisation of financial services has marched on, gathered pace, and has become more pervasive.
News/payments
The Monetary Authority Of Singapore (MAS) is stepping up its work on cross-border foreign exchange settlement using wholesale central bank digital currency.
Standard Chartered has invested in Partior, the DLT venture set up last year by DBS, Temasek and JPMorgan to challenge the cumbersome hub-and-spoke model applied to traditional cross-border payment flow.
03 November 2022
News/wealth
During the week of Singapore Fintech Festival 2022, Finextra caught up with Saxo's APAC CEO Adam Reynolds and regional head of Saxo Institutional Ivan Chang at their offices in Singapore to discuss the launch of SaxoPartnerConnect.
News/startups
ANEXT Bank head of strategic partnerships Randall Lee took to the stage at Singapore Fintech Festival to launch a new industry initiative for SMEs, increasing access to financing and supporting digital transformation.
Announcing at Singapore Fintech Festival, Angel Zhao, president of international business, Ant Group, revealed the launch of Alipay+ D-storeTM, a business digitalisation solution for brick-and-mortar businesses in the service industry.
In a session titled 'Unlocking TradFi with DeFi' at Singapore Fintech Festival 2022, DBS, JP Morgan and SBI Digital Asset Holdings explored how they were able to launch the first industry pilot under MAS’ Project Guardian, exploring potential DeFi applications in wholesale funding markets after completing its first live trades.
02 November 2022
Lawrence Wong, deputy prime minister and minister for finance, Republic of Singapore, took to the stage at Singapore Fintech Festival to make several announcements that will set the backdrop for the nation state’s fintech journey in years to come.
DBS Bank, JPMorgan and SBI Digital Asset Holdings have completed the first pilot transactions on Project Guardian, a Monetary Authority of Singapore-inspired initiative that explores potential decentralised finance (DeFi) applications in wholesale funding markets.
Standard Chartered has launched an API-first Payouts-as-a-Service offering that will let digital businesses manage one-to-many payments.
News/retail
Singapore-based UOB has enlisted Personetics for a new AI-powered automated savings feature at its Indonesian outpost TMRW.
News/inclusion
The Reserve Bank of India has begun a wholesale digital rupee pilot, with a retail trial set to follow within weeks.
01 November 2022
DBS has become the first bank to go live on a new digital asset trading platform from Singapore Exchange unit MaxxTrader.
31 October 2022
News/sustainable
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) has launched an international carbon marketplace to connect capital with climate-related products and opportunities.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published two consultation papers proposing strict regulatory measures to reduce the risk to consumers from cryptocurrency trading while supporting the development of stablecoins as a credible medium of exchange.
26 October 2022
India's prime minister Narendra Modi has announced the launch of 75 digital banking units (DBUs) in a move that he says will improve the banking experience for users and boost financial inclusion.
17 October 2022
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