According to the World Bank Group's investment arm, the International Finance Corporation, the financing gap for SMEs in India is about US$230 billion and represents 68 per cent of the total gap...
REEFKNOT Investments, a joint venture between Singapore's Temasek Holdings and Kuehne + Nagel, has launched its inaugural US$50 million global fund to invest in startups "at the forefront" of the...
NO CASH, no cards, no wallet and no smart phone: China's shoppers are increasingly purchasing goods by looking into a screen as the country embraces facial-recognition technology.
ASEAN-focused venture capital (VC) fund-raising is on course to match the record figures reached last year, even as buyout deal values are falling amid a challenging macroeconomic environment,...
WHEN the time came for one of SGInnovate's portfolio companies to raise Series B funds, the Singapore-based deep tech startup found that there was no local investor either willing or big enough to...
SINGAPORE's cheque-free target by 2025 came into focus on Tuesday as fresh figures show cheque volumes have been falling annually by 8 per cent over the last three years.
SINGAPOREANS have been making more contactless payments, thanks to the availability of multiple e-payment services including digital wallets, QR code payments and peer-to-peer fund transfer...
BANK lending in Singapore dipped in July from a month ago on broad weakness across both business and consumer loans, preliminary data from the Monetary Authority of Singapore showed on Friday.
CONSUMERS are largely on board the digital payments train but businesses, particularly business-centric small and medium enterprises (SMEs), seem to need a bigger push to go entirely cashless or...
ENGINEERING and IT solutions firm ST Integrated Engineering (STIE) is looking to raise about S$4 million by listing on 1exchange, Singapore’s only regulated private securities exchange, to support...
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