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Vietnam’s Digital Finance Landscape: Banks Gain Ground Amidst Shifting Competition

Fintech News

JULY 3, 2024

These incumbents had made a strong entry, collectively achieving a 23% penetration rate and securing the fifth position, the data show. Military Bank (MB), meanwhile, has implemented a digital transformation strategy since 2018 through strategic cooperation with IBM.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A 2018 survey by Bank of America shows that millennials’ top financial priorities were saving for emergency funds (64%), saving for retirement (49%), and saving to buy a house (33%) — not much different from the concerns their baby boomer parents had 30 years ago. Investing: Robo-advisors and micro-investing lower barriers to entry.

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How Robots Are Shaking Up The Grocery Industry

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

It has gained speed in 2018, showing how fulfillment — in many cases, following the lead of Amazon — is relying less on human participation as eCommerce buyers continue to change their shopping habits and expectations. online supermarket operator that earlier inked a deal with Kroger for entry into the U.S. Location also plays a role.

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11 Most Promising Singapore Fintech Startups in NextGen Tech 30

Fintech News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

YouTrip YouTrip illustration, Source: YouTrip Launched in 2018, YouTrip is a mobile financial platform based in Singapore that offers a multi-currency mobile wallet and a contactless Mastercard to make payments in over 150 currencies. In 2023, the Group expanded its offerings into Germany, signaling its entry into the European market.

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13 Southeast Asian Fintechs Among CNBC’s Global Top 250 List

Fintech News

JULY 23, 2024

Founded in 2018, Aspire has raised more than US$300 million from world-class investors, included Sequoia, Lightspeed, Y-Combinator, Tencent and Paypal. The company offers innovative digital financial services aimed at empowering local and regional micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

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

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

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. Michelle Wilson, formerly General Counsel at Amazon (2018). Jonathan Chadwick, former CFO of VMware, Skype, and McAfee (2018). Source: Square. Source: Stripe.

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

CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In December 2018, Reuters reported that Amazon was looking at airports as a potential Amazon Go partner. In March 2018, Greenlight Financial announced crossing 100,000 customers, growing its customer base 300% since the investment. That scale would make Amazon Go a $4.5B Amazon SMB Lending. in 2017 and 2.6%

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1M Users & Growing: 20+ Fintech Startups That Have Crossed The 1 Million Account Mark — And How They Got There

CB Insights

JULY 11, 2019

Cryptocurrency has been the most viral product that any of these companies have leveraged to launch their entry into the consumer fintech space. Despite a cool down in the cryptocurrency markets in 2018, all have continued to grow their user bases, like EToro — which topped 10M accounts and launched in the US in early 2019.

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Amazon’s Gauthier: Alexa Says “No” To Ads

PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2018

Amazon has a lofty vision for Alexa, and Amazon Pay’s VP and GM, Patrick Gauthier , says the entrants in the 2018 PYMNTS Voice Challenge with Amazon Alexa played into that vision beautifully. However, there are follow-up micro-decisions that should not require the user to boot up and log back in.

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How Blockchain Tech Could Disrupt Real Estate

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

ChromaWay announced that it had completed a full transaction on the platform in June 2018. Bank of China Hong Kong (BOCHK), for example, stated in mid-2018 that it processes 85% of real estate appraisals using its own private blockchain. A demo of ChromaWay’s application. Source: ChromaWay.

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The metaverse could be tech’s next trillion-dollar opportunity: These are the companies making it a reality

CB Insights

APRIL 13, 2022

In 2018, Epic Games ‘ Fortnite generated 5 petabytes of data per month (that’s equivalent to 2.5T pages of standard text). Bridging micro-vibrations, pneumatic systems for force resistance, and motion tracking, this technology can give the impression that digital objects have texture, stiffness, and weight.

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

PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

And all of them – developed and developing – use regulated rails, bank accounts and compliant fiat currencies to remove user confusion and friction, establish trust, enable merchant acceptance and accelerate market entry and scale. Just like WeChat did. Of Messenger and Libra. Monetization strategy, however, has yet to click.

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How Fortnite Turned ‘Free’ Into $3B In Profits

PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2019

But in the year 2018, that changed – the word went from being a piece of anachronistic English to a certified cultural phenomenon (albeit spelled a bit differently) that almost no one was anticipating. The Magic of Micro-Transactions. “It’s available everywhere. Almost anyone can play it on a phone, anywhere they can play games.

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

CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

For example, in 2018, 18% of American doctors reported treating a patient via telemedicine. 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.

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Vietnam’s Digital Finance Landscape: Banks Gain Ground Amidst Shifting Competition

From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

How Robots Are Shaking Up The Grocery Industry

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11 Most Promising Singapore Fintech Startups in NextGen Tech 30

13 Southeast Asian Fintechs Among CNBC’s Global Top 250 List

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

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

1M Users & Growing: 20+ Fintech Startups That Have Crossed The 1 Million Account Mark — And How They Got There

Amazon’s Gauthier: Alexa Says “No” To Ads

How Blockchain Tech Could Disrupt Real Estate

The metaverse could be tech’s next trillion-dollar opportunity: These are the companies making it a reality

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

How Fortnite Turned ‘Free’ Into $3B In Profits

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

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