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11 Most Promising Singapore Fintech Startups in NextGen Tech 30

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Headquartered in Singapore, Aspire employs over 600 people across nine countries and is backed by global top tier venture capital (VC) firms, including Peak XV Partners, Lightspeed, Y-Combinator, Tencent and Paypal. The platform is designed for travelers and tech-savvy consumers alike.

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

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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

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As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. PayPal and Square emerge as leaders in the payments space. PayPal and Square emerge as leaders in the payments space. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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

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During those sessions, Marcus provided an update on Messenger’s progress, including new features that had been launched and the impact of bots on consumer engagement. During those media interviews, Marcus defended messaging apps as the places where consumers would logically go to find things to buy and services to leverage.

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

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Instead, Amazon has taken the core components of a modern banking experience and tweaked them to suit Amazon customers (both merchants and consumers). Webpay failed to gain user traction and was shut down in 2014, unlike up-start Venmo (now a part of rival payments processor PayPal). What could it mean for Amazon?

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: The Ant Financial IPO?

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As is well known by now, Ant Financial , the Chinese micro-lending Internet player, has raised a whopping $4.5 The funding is a striking portrait of demand by investors with dry powder to gain entry into a nascent, technology driven market. billion in its latest financing round, a tidy sum above the $3.5

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

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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. Headsets (VR): These companies are developing VR goggles — currently considered the main entry point to metaverse applications. lab-to-table.