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Ex-DBS bankers back fintech remittance startup

SingX charges a fixed 0.5%, disclosed upfront, compared to remittance charges of 1-5% here

Published Thu, Feb 9, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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    Singapore

    FORMER DBS bankers are backing a fintech remittance-payments startup with the potential to disrupt the lucrative trillion-dollar global-payments industry.

    The homegrown fledgling, called SingX, on Thursday billed itself as a cheaper, faster and more-convenient online-remittance platform which charges consumers a fraction of what they typically pay for overseas money transfers. It says it will slash these charges and offer live foreign-exchange rates, rates at which banks transact with one another, so that customers pay a transaction fee of 0.5 per cent, which is disclosed upfront.

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