Tag: Singapore

Singapore-based Axinan has become the first southeast Asian InsurTech to receive a combined general and reinsurance license in Malaysia.

Vulcan Capital has opened its first international office in Singapore and plans to invest $100m into venture opportunities across Southeast Asia.

Israel’s government is reportedly set to fast track around 2,000 FinTech and blockchain companies currently looking to get licences from the country’s regulator.

Japanese property and casualty insurance group Tokio Marine Holdings has partnered with Plug and Play’s InsurTech program in Singapore.

Property marketplace Flat Monthly has reportedly collected $320,000 in a seed funding round.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has announced it has closed several onshore shell companies’ accounts in the last 12 months in an effort to tackle money laundering.

Singapore’s financial regulator has launched a new initiative to provide FinTech innovators with a faster way to test their ideas. But it won’t be open to everyone.

StashAway, a Singapore-based robo-advisor, has collected $12m in its Series B round to support

Singapore e-payments agency E-Pay has found itself in hot waters after running an ad where it darkened the skin of a model to make it look like someone from another ethnicity.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is looking to issue five new digital bank licenses, furthering its goal of adding more digital banks to the country.