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

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The company offers innovative digital financial services aimed at empowering local and regional micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The company’s platform integrates these services into a single entry point on the Grab app, catering to consumers who prefer accessing all their digital financial services on one integrated platform.

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

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Growing the internet economy. 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. Stripe is focused on capturing a growing share of future payments volume in an increasingly internet-based economy. Virtual card issuance.

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Piece By Piece: 14 Offsite Construction Companies Transforming The Building Industry

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From Marriott opening its first modular hotel, to tech giants like Alphabet investing in modular housing, to Japanese retailer Muji launching prefab micro-homes, offsite construction methods are gaining traction. Offsite construction is not a new concept — but it is one that has seen a resurgence in recent years. rematerials. acre designs.

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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 With roughly $6.5

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

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The bulk of growth in 2017 was to businesses in the US, where the company originated $1B in loans. Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014. From launch in 2011 to Q1’19, Amazon reported it issued $5B across more than 20,000 business in the US, Japan, and the UK. in 2017 and 2.6%

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

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Historically, market downturns have triggered a rise in demand for graduate-level programs as young professionals seek to avoid a harsh job market and look for ways to augment their skills while the economy stabilizes. These entry points give cyberoffenders more room to find susceptible targets. Conversational AI/chatbots.

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