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11 Most Promising Singapore Fintech Startups in NextGen Tech 30

Fintech News

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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Abillio Becomes DAC7-Compliant Payments Provider for Online Internship Marketplace Vaqat

Fintech Finance

US-based online marketplace Vaqat is set to facilitate ad-hoc, remote micro-internships to support teams, enhance graduate recruitment, and help students find careers they’ll love. Today the platform has 41 thousand students looking for internships.

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5 Keys to Managing Merchant Risk in Onboarding & Monitoring

FICO

As already indicated, given the current climate and the different landscape of online only micro-merchants, this process is too long. . Ingesting internal data from disparate sources eliminates manual data entry and reduces judgmental underwriting decisioning while creating consistency through automation. Leverage analytics and rules.

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

Fintech News

Airwallex (Singapore) Founded in 2015 in Australia, Airwallex is a leading global financial platform for modern businesses, offering solutions to manage everything from payments, treasury, and spend management to embedded finance.

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

PYMNTS

Facebook’s launch of Libra on June 18 unleashed a firestorm of media coverage, mostly repetitive, and mostly a piling on over the regulatory bear that it poked when unveiling its global payments plus cryptocurrency plans. Libra’s plan to reinvent global payments for people and businesses is an ambitious goal.

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

CB Insights

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. Now both companies have moved beyond payments and built new businesses that serve a range of needs for small businesses. Source: Square. Seed VC, 2019).

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Top 6 Banking Trends That Is Roaring Throughout Asia in 2025

Fintech News

All of this can be made possible by lowering barriers to entry for new players and promoting interoperability. Payment Innovation and Cross-Border Collaboration The payments sector is undergoing significant transformation, with cross-border interoperability emerging as a major focus area.