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11 Most Promising Singapore Fintech Startups in NextGen Tech 30

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Funding Societies Funding Societies illustration, Source: Funding Societies Established in 2015, Funding Societies is a regional fintech company that specializes in providing financing to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). In 2023, the Group expanded its offerings into Germany, signaling its entry into the European market.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Simple, an early contender founded in 2009, floundered following its 2011 launch before ultimately being bought by Spanish banking giant BBVA in 2014. Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry. Active investing.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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In the same way that Square built a payment-centric ecosystem for brick-and-mortar SMBs and micro-merchants, Stripe has reinvented online payment acceptance. The company reached unicorn status in January 2014 at a $1.8B A few key members of the executive team include: Claire Hughes Johnson, who has been the COO since 2014.

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Capriza Chosen by Flextronics, Marvell, NTT, Symantec to Boost Workflow Efficiency

Fintech Labs Insights

Workflows for timesheet entries and approvals are among the main areas of focus. ” One of Gartner’s Cool Vendors for 2014 , Capriza was named one of 1o mobile startups to watch at the beginning of the year by Network World. Capriza calls its approach “zero coding, zero APIs, zero upgrades.”

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If Facebook Wants To Be WeChat, Why Did It Launch Libra?

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Like Tencent and QQ, when Messenger separated from Facebook in 2014, it needed to get consumer and their friends to download the Messenger app. Back in 2014, Messenger users also had a different view of their “one place” to do all of those things – and it wasn’t any of their messaging apps. Just like WeChat did. Of Messenger and Libra.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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Webpay failed to gain user traction and was shut down in 2014, unlike up-start Venmo (now a part of rival payments processor PayPal). With the talent acquired from GoPago, Amazon launched Amazon Local Register, a card reader for SMBs in August 2014. Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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Apple, Google, and Samsung began adding virtual wallets to their mobile products as early as 2014. In May 2020, micro-investing app Acorns followed suit, adding a Spend Account alongside its investment and retirement products. These entry points give cyberoffenders more room to find susceptible targets. Source: Recorded Future.