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11 Most Promising Singapore Fintech Startups in NextGen Tech 30

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The 2024 winners were selected by a panel of key industry players representing organizations such as KKR, Granite Asia (formerly GGV Capital), Singapore’s InfoComm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Singapore Business Federation, Singapore-based global investor EDBI, SGX Group, DBS Bank, Northstar Group, and 65 Equity Partners.

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Micro-Businesses? Major Role In SMB Banking Disruption

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Solopreneur, independent contractor, freelancer, gig worker – regardless of the name, micro-business owners can largely agree that, when it comes to traditional banking, they’re often left out in the cold. They make the engine run,” said Mike Butler, CEO of community FI Radius Bank. “We tend to overthink it.”

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

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As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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A 2018 survey by Bank of America shows that millennials’ top financial priorities were saving for emergency funds (64%), saving for retirement (49%), and saving to buy a house (33%) — not much different from the concerns their baby boomer parents had 30 years ago. From big banks to big tech. From big banks to big tech.

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Vietnam’s Digital Finance Landscape: Banks Gain Ground Amidst Shifting Competition

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Vietnam’s digital finance landscape is undergoing a notable shift as new players emerge, established ones fade, and traditional banks rise to prominence, a new report by Decision Lab shows. However, by Q4 2023, Moca had slipped out of the top rankings, replaced by mobile apps from traditional banks.

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

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In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. As more people have worked, learned, banked, exercised, relaxed, and even sought medical care from home during Covid-19, they have gotten a crash course in just how much can be accomplished at home. Online courses & content.

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

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To understand why, we need to do a little time travel back to July 2017, when Facebook’s Messenger and its monetization strategy was front and center in the company’s Q2 earnings report. In fact, on Facebook’s Q2 2017 earnings call , there were high fives all around for its Q2 results.

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