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Singtel, Grab Team Up To Launch Digital Bank In Singapore

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Singtel and Grab are looking to consolidate their powers to create a new digital bank for the people of Singapore, they announced in a press release. The bank will be able to serve retail customers, lend money and take deposits, along with other online banking functions.

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ADVANCE.AI Consortium Seeks Singaporean Digital Banking License

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Yet another business consortium vies for a lucrative, wholesale digital banking license, according to reports. ” The Monetary Authority of Singapore determined last year that it would issue up to five virtual banking licenses to enhance competition and innovation. Winners will be announced in mid-2020.

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Digital Banking, With Millennial, Mobile – And Governmental – Tailwinds

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The push toward digital banking seems an inexorable one, with the technology and demographics acting as tailwinds, and where governments have increasingly gotten into the act of promoting digital banks (the pure-play kind) and making forays into bits and bytes, where once paper and face-to-face transactions reigned.

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Grab Launches GrabInvest

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The move will let Grab begin to offer retail wealth management services to users, driver and merchant partners via the Grab app, according to an emailed press release. The company serves a long list of micro-entrepreneurs, small business owners, driver partners and users in the region.

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Fintech Deals to Watch: Back to School

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Lending Tech With Almost Steady Grades (Even With Rough Semesters). Mortgage services provider ICE acquired mortgage services provider Black Knight bringing together the two largest providers in the space.

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HSBC, Alibaba Link Up On Quick eCommerce Loans

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But analysts said the move represents an attempt to compete with a number of new online challenger banks that will appear in the region later in the year. Through this digital financing solution, more merchants can easily obtain rapid loans,” Zhao Wei, general manager of Cainiao Network Supply Chain Finance, told the news outlet. “As

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NCR: Bank Disruption On The Horizon; Banking M&A Deals To Follow

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You’d be forgiven for thinking that, in banking, the deal is dead. NCR Digital Banking Senior Vice President and General Manager Doug Brown told Karen Webster there will be an acceleration of deal making on the other side of the pandemic, particularly as financial institutions (FIs) recalibrate and expand their digital efforts.

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