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11 Most Promising Singapore Fintech Startups in NextGen Tech 30

Fintech News

In May 2024, Aspire launched in Hong Kong, offering a suite of financial solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including the ability to open local business accounts for payables and receivables management, international payments, as well as payment gateway solution. The startup reached profitability this month.

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

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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. Group core GTV, which excludes merchant payment gateway, grew by 32% YoY to IDR 54.6

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

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Many leading tech companies — including Google (Checkout), Yahoo (PayDirect), and Microsoft (Passport) — tried to compete with PayPal to gain a foothold in the online payments market, but ultimately shuttered these product lines in the mid-2000s. PayMongo , a Philippines-based company that helps companies accept payments online ($2.7M

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

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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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