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11 Most Promising Singapore Fintech Startups in NextGen Tech 30

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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.

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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. In 2017, Stripe acquired Indie Hackers , a knowledge sharing platform for entrepreneurs.

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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. Just like WeChat did. Of Messenger and Libra.

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

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CNBC’s Pick of Top Fintech Firms in Southeast Asia Akseleran (Indonesia) Founded in 2017, Akseleran is an Indonesian peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform is among the top fintech firms in Southeast included CNBC’s list. Group core GTV, which excludes merchant payment gateway, grew by 32% YoY to IDR 54.6

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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In 2017, Andreessen Horowitz general partner Alex Rampell said that of all the tech giants that could make a major move in financial services: “Amazon is the most formidable. If Amazon can get you lower-debt payments or give you a bank account, you’ll buy more stuff on Amazon.”. children, were unbanked in 2017. in 2017 and 2.6%