P2P Lending
‘Uberisation’ and what banks need to do
It is in these turbulent times that entrepreneurs thrive, seeing opportunity with the shifting tides and pushing ahead, whilst larger companies contemplate and study outcomes, write Anwar Jumabhoy & Srikrishna Vadrevu.
SMEs can ease cash flow with P2P factoring
Singapore fintech startup InvoiceInterchange seeks to solve SMEs’ cash flow issues with peer-to-peer factoring.
Fintech startup Skolafund aims to help underprivileged students
Skolafund aims to be the biggest education financing platform in Asia by helping underprivileged students pay their fees via crowdfunding.
Filling the gap between investors and SMEs
P2P lending is gaining traction in Singapore, with local startup Funding Societies having disbursed S$2.4mil worth of loans in the few months since its official launch.
Payments the key pillar in RHB’s ‘reframed digital strategy’
Just 12 months after banking group RHB launched its transformation initiative ‘Ignite 2017,’ it has reframed it, adding payments as a major component.
What’s Next: Disruptors will not kill off banking incumbents
Despite fintech startups being the sexy new kids on the block, and a host of new digital-fuelled payment initiatives and platforms, such disruption will not kill off the incumbents, MOL Inc founder and chairman Ganesh Kumar Bangah told the What's Next conference.
Fintech takes centrestage at SC’s World Capital Markets Symposium
The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) said that the World Capital Markets Symposium (WCMS) 2015 will feature global technology founders and experts sharing ideas and insights on Markets and Technology: Driving Future Growth Through Innovation.
Capital Match raises S$1mil Series A round
Capital Match Holdings Pte Ltd, which operates a peer-to-peer online lending platform, said it has raised S$1 million (about US$713,000) in its Series A round of venture financing.
Singapore property crowdfunding platform CoAssets lists on Australia’s NSX
Singaporean crowdfunding platform provider CoAssets Pte Ltd has listed on the National Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX), that country’s second largest stock exchange.
Capital Match looks to play matchmaker for SMEs seeking loans
P2P lending platform Capital Match, founded by ex-Rocket Internet executive Pawal Kuznicki and former investment banker Kevin Lim, is looking to play matchmaker to Singapore SMEs and individual investors.
