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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.

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.

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 (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).

(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.

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.

(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.

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.

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).

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