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Dowry's S$1.5b - but suitors are queueing at virtual bank altar

Fintechs, large corporates busy courting each other ahead of criteria for Singapore digital banking licence this week

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Published Wed, Aug 28, 2019 · 09:50 PM

    Singapore

    THIS may be Singapore's greatest speed-dating exercise.

    Roughly a dozen new players are flirting with the banking industry, a heavily regulated sector that's well aware the biggest liberalisation of the Singapore financial sector since 1999 would come to pass this year.

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