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Oct

Why has fintech investment in Singapore hit a record high?

Singapore is expecting sub 1% economic growth this year, but you wouldn’t know it from the city-state’s booming fintech sector. Research firm Accenture estimates that investors sank $735 million into Singapore fintechs from January-September, up 69% year-on-year and surpassing the $642 million for all of 2018. The top areas for…

Oct

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Toss reapplies for Korea virtual banking license

Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) surprised some observers by rejecting all of the applicants for a virtual banking license earlier this year. The FSC had different reasons for saying no to the applicants. In the case of Toss, a peer-to-peer money transfer app owned by Korean fintech unicorn Viva Republica,…

Oct

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Fintech in Taiwan: steady as she goes

In Asia’s red-hot fintech scene, Taiwan flies largely under the radar. That’s largely because no unicorns have yet emerged among its fintech startups, or any other startups for that matter. Taiwan did introduce a fintech regulatory sandbox in late 2017 and more recently established regulations for security token offerings (STOs),…

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