Financial Technology

Tonik Launches As First Neobank In The Philippines

MANILA, Philippines, March 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Tonik, Southeast Asia's first digital-only bank, launches as the first neobank inthe Philippines today. Tonik brings to the market a revolutionary and completely branchless way of banking on a highly secure mobile platform that sets out to funda...

2021-03-18 16:00 6618

Nordea Selects AxiomSL to Automate Risk and Regulatory Reporting in Nordic Countries

LONDON, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- AxiomSL, the industry's leading provider of risk and regulatory reporting solutions, today announced that it has been selected byNordea Bank, the leading Nordic universal bank, to support the bank's risk and regulatory reporting requirements inFinland, Swede...

2021-03-17 22:01 1591

TD Holdings Inc. Signs Letter of Intent with Chenzhou Dingmei Silver Co., Ltd. to Acquire Ownership of a Molybdenum Copper Ore in Kazakhstan

SHENZHEN, China, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TD Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: GLG) (the "Company"), a commodities trading service provider in China, today announced that the Company and Tongdow E-Trade Limited ("Tongdow E-Trade"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company have entered into a letter o...

2021-03-17 16:17 7743

Kincsem appoints CALLUM for Hyper-car design brief

ZUG, Switzerland, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- New digital luxury brand Kincsem has appointed CALLUM, led byIan Callum CBE, recently named GQ's Car Designer of the Year, to deliver the design of an all-new electrified hyper-car.

2021-03-17 14:00 3797

A Drop of Blood for Life: JULO's Blood Donation Action

JAKARTA, Indonesia, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- JULO, a fully licensed peer to peer (P2P) lending company fromIndonesia , organized a blood donation activity involving their employees at JULO's head office, 88 @ Kasablanka Tower A, on Monday ...

2021-03-17 12:59 2799

NexChange Group and Marita Group Co-Host Africa Blockchain Week Virtual Summit to Showcase Continent's Technological Leapfrog

HONG KONG, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The inaugural Africa Blockchain Week will launch fromJune 28th to July 1st 2021. NexChange Group, a blockchain ecosystem and venture builder and MARITA Group, an African conglomerate will combine forces to co-host this Virtual Summit. The event will fe...

2021-03-17 09:00 3550

Chargebee Pledges a $5B Fund for Startups - Offers its subscription platform completely free for upto $100K.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Chargebee, the global leader in subscription billing and revenue management, today announced that it will be pledging$5 billion dollars of revenue processing capability for early-stage startups. With this pledge, qualifying startups will be able to us...

2021-03-16 22:00 2683

FICO Survey: 68% of Singaporeans Prefer to Use Digital Channels to Engage with their Bank During Financial Hardship

SINGAPORE, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Preferred banking customer touchpoints across Asia Pacific - December 2020 Highlights: * 68 percent of Singaporean consumers prefer to use digital channels to engage with their bank during...

2021-03-16 08:30 7680

Rokt appoints Chief Product Officer to accelerate transformation of e-commerce

Rokt continues to invest in strengthening the team with the appointment of Hunter Yaw NEW YORK, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Rokt, the global leader in e-commerce technology, today announced the addition ofHunter Yaw as Chief Product Officer. Yaw will lead Rokt's product development and play a...

2021-03-16 08:00 1943

Solace Powers Mobile Payments on Standard Chartered Bank Korea's Digital Banking Platform

SEOUL, South Korea, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Solace has partnered with Standard Chartered Bank Korea (SCB Korea) to maximize the agility and efficiency of Standard Chartered's Straight2Bank (S2B), an online banking platform that allows businesses to make payments and track their transaction...

2021-03-16 07:00 6034

Validus' Indonesian arm Batumbu granted full digital lending license from OJK to further drive MSME financial inclusion

* Batumbu has disbursed over S$207 million to MSMEs since starting its operations inApr 2019, and recorded close to 650% annual growth last year * SME financing platform Validus has received regulatory approval in three markets acrossSoutheast Asia - the award-winning fintech is also licensed ...

2021-03-15 18:05 6031

Avoiding credit-risk related collapses: TradeFlow reduces risk in SME trade finance using innovative FinTech, non-lending, non-credit system

SINGAPORE, March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- When large credit lending firms collapse, huge shockwaves are sent throughout industry; the risk of contagion looms, threatening thousands of jobs, disrupting supply chains for essential goods, and increasing the barriers to credit that hits SMEs most. ...

2021-03-15 12:44 4685

CLPS Incorporation Announces Chairman's Letter to the Company's Shareholders

HONG KONG, March 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CLPS Incorporation (Nasdaq: CLPS) ("CLPS" or "the Company"), today released a letter to shareholders from the Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board"), the full text of which is provided below. All CLPS shareholders are encouraged to rea...

2021-03-12 21:30 5423

Cutting-edge Scale-Out Technology from Toshiba will Take Fintech and Logistics to New Level

TOKYO, March 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), the industry leader in solutions for large-scale optimization problems, today announced a scale-out technology that minimizes hardware limitations, an evolution of its optimization computer, the Simulation Bifurcation Machin...

2021-03-12 11:00 8361

Epidemic Sound brings in EQT Growth and Blackstone Growth to support its next phase of development

STOCKHOLM, March 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --            * EQT Growth and funds managed by Blackstone Growth invest USD 450 million in Epidemic Sound, the market leading platform for restriction-free music, in a transaction valuing the company atUSD 1.4 billion             * EQT Growth will, tog...

2021-03-12 01:15 6806

Leading Singapore FinTech Trade Innovators Join Forces to Provide Enhanced Digital Trade Solutions to SME Firms

SINGAPORE, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- TradeFlow Capital Management (TradeFlow), has entered into a partnership with #dltledgers promising to reduce the liquidity shortage for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) trading bulk commodities around the globe. Estimated by the Asian Development Bank...

2021-03-11 20:31 4647

LTI Tops Everest Group's IT Services Challenger 2021 List

Listed as the Star Performer of the Year for Banking and Financial Services MUMBAI, India, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Larsen & Toubro Infotech (BSE: 540005) (NSE: LTI) , a global technology consulting and digital solutions company has topped the list of 'IT Services Challenger 2021' in Everes...

2021-03-11 14:25 5253

FICO Survey: 69% of Thais Prefer to Use Digital Channels to Engage with their Bank During Financial Hardship

Appeal of in-person branch banking fading fast post pandemic BANGKOK, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Highlights: * 69 percent of Thai consumers prefer to use digital channels to engage with ...

2021-03-11 10:00 8563

Tanla's DLT platform Trubloq built to enforce TRAI regulation

- Trubloq empowers customers and enables enterprises by curbing spam calls, messages HYDERABAD, India, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Tanla Platforms Limited said today that the company is supporting enterprises in meeting the TCCCPR requirement to register content templates with the telecom re...

2021-03-10 20:00 5220

LexisNexis(R) Risk Solutions Named Best Cybersecurity Solution by Asian Private Banker Technology Awards for Second Year in a Row

HONG KONG, March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- LexisNexis® Risk Solutions won for Best Cybersecurity Solution at the sixth Asian Private Banker Technology Awards. The award recognized the LexisNexis® ThreatMetrix® product, a digital identity intelligence and authentication solution that enables better...

2021-03-10 12:00 12808

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