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FINTECH soCash has tied up with ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China) Singapore to extend its services to ICBC customers, enabling them to perform basic banking services like cash withdrawal from neighbourhood shops using the soCash app. It adds ICBC to a list of partner banks that already includes DBS, POSB and Standard Chartered. […]

Singapore cross-border payments start-up, Instarem, is preparing to apply for a digital banking licence in the city state, and are currently seeking banking partners to achieve this. According to Bloomberg, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will grant as many as two digital full-bank licenses and up to three digital wholesale bank licenses. Singapore Telecommunications, […]

Thailand’s KASIKORNBANK (KBank) has chosen InstaReM to power cross-border payments for the bank’s clients across select markets. KBank clients will be able to realize faster turnarounds, while providing certainty on delivery times and payout amounts. Silawat Santivisat, Senior Executive Vice President of KASIKORNBANK, said, “This is an important partnership for KBank at an exciting stage […]

Bengaluru-based social commerce startup GlowRoad has raised $11.5 Mn in a Series B+ funding round. Talking to Inc42, Kunal Sinha, co-founder and CEO, GlowRoad said South Korea-based Korea Investment Partners (KIP) and Singapore-based Vertex Ventures are part of the investment. The company had recently raised $10 Mn in Series B from Accel Partners and CDH […]

In just a decade, Roshni Mahtani, has achieved what many can only dream of – a successful tech media company that is taking a leap into the world of e-commerce. Starting off as a platform for parents to talk about ‘real’ parental issues and not mundane discussions on blues and pinks, she has now set […]

Keeping abreast of industry trends is vital to ensure that precious time and money is spent wisely. If new technologies and business models are snapped up by the competition, it could also result in companies being left behind. While the automotive industry has long used traditional market intelligence to forecast where things are headed, intellectual […]