Panel hosted by Dr Dennis Khoo, Head of Regional Digital Bank and Digital Banking, UOB - Tuesday 13 November 3:00pm at the AI BOX (HALL 4B)
FISCO BCOS (in the following referred to as BCOS), an opensource blockchain platform, made its debut exhibition at the Singapore FinTech Festival today. The financial blockchain infrastructure platform developed by a Chinese consortium of FinTech innovators is well poised to tap into the global market. Four strategic partners of BCOS, namely cloud service provider Tencent Cloud, global consulting firm EY, IT service provider Forms Syntron, and internet service provider Anne.Inc, will share their latest business applications and development...
Pintec Technology Holdings Ltd. (“PINTEC”;NASDAQ: PT), a leading independent technology platform enabling financial services in China, today announced that it has reached a cooperation agreement with Beijing EVERCARE, a leading player in China’s medical beauty industry. PINTEC will provide Beijing EVERCARE with an efficient and customized installment payment solution, enabling Beijing EVERCARE to better serve its consumers with installment options. Beijing EVERCARE provides medical aesthetic treatments and health management services for more than 200,000 consumers each year. The majority...
Clearbanc, a company that funds marketing for fast-growing ecommerce brands, at Techonomy today announced it has closed a $70M USD investment from a group of investors including Emergence Capital, Social Capital, CoVenture, Founders Fund, 8VC, iNovia Capital, Real Ventures, Portag3, Precursor, WTI, Berggruen, and FJ Labs. Emergence Capital Partner Santi Subotovsky will join the company’s board of directors. The company was founded in 2015 by serial entrepreneurs and angel investors Andrew D’Souza and Michele Romanow, who is also a Dragon...
David Johnson brings 25+ years of experience to growing financial technology platform
PLMP FinTech successfully established one of the biggest Blockchain Technology Centres in the region New BEEP Initiative announced to empower SMEs by allowing them to participate in the new digital economy PLMP FinTech, the local Financial Technology firm behind Singapore’s first-ever Blockchain Technology Centre, celebrated its first year of operations this month with a raft of exciting first announcements. The FinTech firm successfully overcame the challenges posed by a bearish market outlook on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) by helping...
BANKEX’s recent registration in Malta has paved the path to the first sale of BANKEX tokens to a leading institutional investor on the financial assets market. The tokens that are now in the possession of this financial powerhouse are time-locked and will be used within the framework of the BANKEX STO. With this success, BANKEX is now focusing on its main infrastructure services and tech: BANKEX Custody Service, BANKEX Token Exchange, Ethereum Plasma Prime, and an STO...
Rate3 envisions a future where all forms of assets – including money, stocks, real estate, intellectual property and even an individual’s time – are interchanged seamlessly between application users of various public blockchains. Over the past few decades, global economic trade has almost single-handedly propelled developing economies into significantly higher standards of living. Blockchain technology has the potential to further improve upon the legacy infrastructure used for such trade, which will, in turn, through the...
Investorideas.com, a leader in Blockchain content with its Bitcoin and Blockchain portals Bitcoinandblockchainstocks.com, Cryptocurrencyinvestorideas.com and Blockchaininvestorideas.com release an exclusive Q&A interview with Risto Rossar, Co-Founder of Black Insurance. Risto and InvestorIdeas discuss the big players testing blockchain in insurance and how their Board member, Bundeep Singh Rangar from Fineqia (CSE: FNQ) (OTC: FNQQF) (Frankfurt: FNQA), is adding value, expertise and “blockchain based policy administration.” With over 60 plus sign-ups from insurance brokers globally, writing almost $400 million of premiums annually, this blockchain insurance...
Sales & Marketing and Software Product Management leaders, Oliver Obitayo and Vikas Seth join IDnow in CSO and CPO roles respectively Melanie Jungbluth leaves Gartner to take up role as Head of Legal IDnow, nominated to the 2018 FinTech50 list of hottest European start-ups, has announced today the addition of three senior industry executives to new roles within the business as it scales into the global market. Vikas Seth joins as Chief Product Officer (CPO), Oliver Obitayo as Chief Sales Officer (CSO)...