Tag: Financial Services
YES Bank chooses 12 startups for its fintech accelerator’s inaugural batch
India: YES Bank selected 12 startups for its inaugral fintech business accelerator programme. The startups have been working on fintech transactions, lending, cyber security, risk intelligence, big data, analytics and more.
Bangkok Bank partners Nest to launch a FinTech accelerator ‘InnoHub’
Thailand: Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited announced its international FinTech accelerator program, Bangkok Bank InnoHub in partnership with corporate innovation partner Nest.
Monetary Authority of Singapore, Abu Dhabi to set up fintech centre in UAE
Singapore: MAS will team up with Abu Dhabi Global Market – a global financial centre in the UAE – to nurture financial technology entrepreneurship and support financial services innovation.
Paypal graduates first 3 startups from incubation program
Singapore: PayPal’s startup incubation program that landed in Singapore last year, graduates it first 3 incubatees after spending nine months at the international payment company’s Technology Center in Singapore.
YES Bank announces launch of fintech accelerator – ‘YES Fintech’ (YFA)
India: YES Bank has announced to launch a business accelerator program-YES FINTECH (YFA) for fintech startups. The initiative has been taken in association with T-HUB and Anthill Ventures, with LetsTalkPayments (LTP).
8 startups announced for SuperCharger FinTech Accelerator 2.0
Hong Kong: As SuperCharger FinTech accelerator 2.0 kicked off at Hong Kong FinTech Week, eight finalists that were announced included startups in the areas of wealth management, RegTech, artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity and blockchain.
Japanese firm Mizuho in Fintech Innovation Move
Japan: Mizuho Financial Group has announced plans to establish an innovation lab within the Fintech Center of Tokyo. The new innovation centre which is known as «Finolab» is jointly operated by Mitsubishi Estate, Dentsu, and Information Services International–Dentsu.
DBS to Start Innovation Lab in India
India: DBS Bank is looking to use India as a technology innovation hub, working in tandem with the yet-to-to-open lab in Singapore.
Standard Chartered opens Innovation Lab in Singapore
Singapore: The new lab builds upon Standard Chartered’s Silicon Valley tech hub, SC Studios, which monitors technology trends and works to connect the bank’s business units with fintech startups, entrepreneurs and universities.
UOB sets up innovation lab, explores crowdfunding
Singapore: Under this programme, some 30 fintechs will be offered up to S$30,000 of funding, a working space, software access, and mentorship from UOB bankers. Through each three-month cycle of building and pitching of products, 10-15 UOB staff are expected to take part.
UBS Launches Asian Innovation Centre
SWISS bank UBS officially opened a new innovation centre here yesterday that focuses on developing financial technology (fintech) products for its wealth-management customers.
The centre, named Evolve, works closely with start-ups and bank clients to develop solutions that could be applied to the world market.
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