The Monetary Authority of Singapore and DBS Bank are running a trial of tokenized Singapore dollars that can be programmed for specific uses and allow merchants to be paid immediately. The experiment with “purpose bound money” (PBM) or programmable money is being carried out under the...
Financial institutions continue to embrace collaborations and integrations with FinTechs, but this week, U.S. Bank elevated that strategy with its FinTech acquisition. Plus, Brazil takes its next steps in open banking, and more bank-FinTech tie-ups emerge. U.S. Bank Acquires Bento Technologies As more financial institutions...
Small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners in Singapore will now be able to use facial recognition to access their DBS Bank accounts, per a report from The Straits Times. To use the software, called SingPass Face Verification, users will just have to face a camera...
DBS Bank has launched a real-time online tracking feature for cross-border collections, a press release says, which will give better digital services for corporate clients. The feature will make use of SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi) technology, and help over 240,000 corporate and small and...
August 23, 2017
Despite Tim Cook’s most enthusiastic comments that the Apple Watch is doing “great,” the figures on the ground in the U.S. indicate pretty strongly that when it comes to wearables, the mainstream American consumer is doing more shrugging than cheering. A report from eMarketer earlier in the year revised their wearables growth curve down — from […]
August 18, 2023
Supply chain network Infor Nexus and DBS Bank have joined forces to launch a new pre-shipment financing solution for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in India that are in the Infor Nexus supply chain ecosystem. This solution uses historical data from the Infor Nexus platform to provide data-based lending solutions that help suppliers meet their […]
