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Open banking startup Finverse wants to build the Asia-Pacific region’s Plaid

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Based in Hong Kong, Finverse ’s ambitious goal is to enable open banking throughout the Asia-Pacific region. million in seed funding, and is now live in four markets (Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam) with connections to 30 banks. Brankas wants to bring Southeast Asia’s banks and e-commerce into the digital era.

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Alloy, Synctera and Unit discuss the future of embedded finance at TC Disrupt

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Banking-as-a-service (BaaS), embedded finance and open banking are among the hottest topics in fintech today. Make opening a bank account, storing money, receiving a payment card and lending money as easy as opening a social network account. The promise?

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FSI Member Spotlight, Episode #2: How Banks Partner with Fintechs to Innovate

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FSI Member Spotlight, Episode #2: How Banks Partner with Fintechs to Innovate. Our Senior Director of Innovation, Lance Vaughn , recently met with Wayne Brown to explore the topic of bank-fintech partnerships. Wayne brings a wealth of knowledge in product management, having served for six years as Product Manager for Mastercard.

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After selling his last startup to Google, this founder now wants to automate mundane tasks with Relay

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Some seven years after selling his previous company to Google, Jacob Bank is preparing to launch his next project, this time with a focus on automating mundane, repetitive tasks. He also said that he’s managed to hire a number of product, design, and engineering personnel from the Gmail and Google Calendar development team.

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Defy.vc’s Brian Rothenberg explains growth marketing strategies that don’t break the bank at TC Early Stage

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s first 10 years where, as the company’s youngest product manager, he helped build several of its early businesses. He built the business through its acquisition by TaskRabbit, which was later acquired by IKEA. He also served during Yahoo!’s

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Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia backs cross-border payments startup Tazapay

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The rise in open banking and payment services like India’s UPI and Singapore’s PayNow means lower costs for businesses, as well as new payment options for hundreds of millions of customers in emerging markets who don’t own credit cards. Some of the startup’s customers include B2B marketplace IndiaMART, which claims more than 7.4

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FSI Member Spotlight, Episode #1: How Banks Partner with Fintechs to Innovate

Praxent

FSI Member Spotlight, Episode #1: How Banks Partner with Fintechs to Innovate. Our Senior Director of Innovation, Lance Vaughn , recently met with Wayne Brown to explore the topic of bank-fintech partnerships. Wayne brings a wealth of knowledge in product management, having served for six years as Product Manager for Mastercard.

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