crowdfunding

Fintech

Crowdfunding platform FundedHere raises capital for F&B mobile ordering and payments app

SINGAPORE (Apr 18): Crowdfunding platform FundedHere says it has raised "a significant amount of capital" for Waitrr, a first-of-its-kind “mobile waiter” app.
Funding Societies co-founders Reynold Wijaya (left) and Kelvin Teo

Fintech

P2P lending platform Funding Societies hits $100 mil in crowdfunded loans

SINGAPORE (Jan 23): Peer-to-peer lending platform Funding Societies announced Tuesday that it has surpassed $100 million in total crowdfunded loans for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.

In print this week

How tech is forcing Singapore's largest companies to adapt & evolve

SINGAPORE (Dec 22): The tech sector is now the largest in the MSCI Emerging Market and MSCI China indices. Yet, technology is posing a major challenge for many big companies, forcing them to adapt their business models in the face of disruption and ventur

Singapore Fintech Festival 2017

These countries are leading the way in the Asean fintech landscape

SINGAPORE (Nov 16): With countries including Singapore already moving towards a common national payments infrastructure and QR code standard, these trends could soon set the payment standard for Asean in the future, says United Overseas Bank (UOB).

Startups, Entrepreneurs, Digital economy

Invoice crowdfunding firm Validus offers SMEs ‘virtual credit card’

(Sept 4): For small and medium-sized enterprises, a single delayed payment from a customer can mean a major dent in cash flows. Invoice crowdfunding start-up Validus Capital thinks it has a good solution to this problem.

IPO

Asia-Pacific continues to dominate the global IPO scene in 1Q17

SINGAPORE (April 6): The Asia-Pacific region continued to dominate global initial public offering (IPO) activity in 1Q17 to account for 70% of the global number of IPOs and 48% by global proceeds.

Payments startup Omise joins wave of digital-coin fundraising

(March 31); Omise, a Bangkok-based startup backed by Japan’s SBI Investment, plans to raise as much as US$16 million ($22.4 million) selling digital tokens as it builds a new payment service based on blockchain technology.

METech to issue bonds on crowdfunding platform

SINGAPORE (Oct 4): METech International has announced that it has entered into a term sheet agreement with a crowdfunding platform to issue non-convertible bonds for $2 million.

CoAssets is first crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending company to list on ASX

SINGAPORE (Sept 5): Singapore’s CoAssets has become the first crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending company to list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).

Crowdfunding just got easier with Kickstarter’s Singapore launch

SINGAPORE (Aug 31): Kickstarter today announced the official launch of its services in Singapore and Hong Kong – which marks the Brooklyn-based company’s maiden foray into Asia. It was previously only available to creators based in 18 markets includi
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