UAE Banks Federation, the unified representative and voice of UAE banks, organised a webinar on digital banking and financial technology on the 19th of October 2022 in collaboration with RFI Global, which specializes in financial intelligence research and solutions. The webinar themed ‘Accelerating Digital Banking and Fintech in UAE 2022’, comes as part of the […]

The Singapore Business Federation (SBF) launched its Singapore Women Entrepreneurs Network (SG-WEN) at the SBF Center. SG-WEN aims to bring together women entrepreneurs in Singapore and connect them with other women entrepreneurs, business leaders and trade associations in the Asia-Pacific, in particular the ASEAN member states.  Minister of State for Trade and Industry, and Culture, […]

Mobilink Microfinance Bank Limited, VEON’s financial services arm and the largest digital bank in Pakistan, launched three major microfinance initiatives as part of its continuing efforts to financially empower women entrepreneurs and to support small and medium-sized farmers in the country. The initiatives were formally launched by VEON Group CEO, Kaan Terzioglu, during his recent […]

Calastone, the largest global funds network, announces the opening of their regional headquarters in Singapore, underpinning their aggressive growth strategy to expand product offerings and footprint across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Calastone has been disrupting the investment funds industry since it entered the APAC market in 2009 and is committed to helping Asia’s funds industry […]

Thunes, a global cross-border payments company, announced a partnership with Alipay+, a suite of cross-border payments and marketing solutions operated by Ant Group. Thanks to this collaboration, Thunes’ customers and merchants in Europe will now be able to accept Asia’s most popular mobile wallets: China’s Alipay Malaysia’s Touch ’n Go and Boost Philippines’ GCash South Korea’s […]

UOB and Doxa are collaborating to enable companies to move their procurement and trade financing processes online. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with their client Kimly Construction Private Limited (Kimly Construction), for the execution of the trio’s first green trade finance transaction together. This means that the procurement and trade financing processes for […]

Jointly organised by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), the seventh Belt and Road Summit will take place on 31 August and 1 September (Wednesday and Thursday). Activities on the first day will be held both physically and online at the Hong Kong […]

Advancing its ambition to further innovation and empower the agriculture sector, Telenor Pakistan, in collaboration with Tabadlab and the GSMA, has unveiled a report, ‘AgriTech: Crafting Pakistan’s Journey to Impact’. The report identifies existing challenges to the sector and evaluates the impact that AgriTech will have on accelerating growth. The authors find that adopting modern […]

Singtel, as part of its commitment to support sustainability and the digitalisation of the financial ecosystem, has announced the successful pricing of Singapore’s largest foreign currency digital bond. The US$100 million, five-year digital Sustainability-Linked Bond (SLB) is a partnership by Singtel’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Singtel Group Treasury (SGT), with UOB and ADDX. The digital SLB will […]

  Trust Payments has launched Stor, an innovative e-commerce platform for small and medium businesses. Through the launch, Trust Payments has enabled ISOs, banks and other third parties to sell Stor direct to merchants in the USA. The US launch comes after Trust Payments completed its acquisition of the Stor technology in early 2022 to […]