Tagged: kelvin tan

July 24, 2024 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently connected with Kelvin Tan, CEO of audax, a corporate venture backed by Standard Chartered Bank. Before transitioning to a full-time career as an entrepreneur, Kelvin held multiple roles at Standard Chartered Bank — from Transaction Banking to Retail Products and Payments to… Read More

September 21, 2023 @ 10:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Global bank Standard Chartered has announced the release of a Banking as a Service (BaaS) offering. The new service arrives via SC Ventures, the bank’s fintech and innovation subsidiary. SC Ventures was established in 2018 as a new business unit to lead digital innovation. Standard… Read More

May 10, 2019 @ 10:27 am By JD Alois  |  

GTR Ventures has taken an equity stake in supply chain management and finance platform Octet Europe. Details on the investment were not disclosed. GTR Ventures has offices in both Singapore and London and this is their 10th Fintech focused investment but first in Europe. Octet… Read More

November 12, 2018 @ 3:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

GTR Ventures, a global trade and supply chain investor, has inked three new deals with Fintech firms: Lucidity, iLoan and RM-Tech. According to GTR, these investments represent a pivot towards markets in China and South Asia. The investments were announced on the first day of… Read More

October 30, 2018 @ 4:00 am By JD Alois  |  

GTR Ventures, an investment company that specializes in trade and supply chain, has announced an investment in Orbitt – an African focused Fintech deals platform. This is GTR’s first Africa focused investment. Orbitt is based in London with operations in Mauritius and a user-base across 28… Read More

October 17, 2018 @ 8:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Two GTR Ventures portfolio companies have joined to create a blockchain application designed to eliminate invoice financing fraud. The two Fintechs, global invoice discounting platform Incomlend, has adopted Invoice Check – a blockchain application developed by Trade Finance Market (TFM). The companies state that invoice… Read More

March 20, 2018 @ 1:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Culum Capital, a Singapore-based receivables and supply chain financing platform, has received an investment  from GTR Ventures. GTR revealed several Fintech investments this past week – mainly in the online lending vertical. “We are thrilled to be partnering with GTR Ventures,” commented Ginnie Chin, co-founder &… Read More

March 12, 2018 @ 4:00 am By JD Alois  |  

GTR Ventures, an investment and venture platform that is specializing in the global trade and supply chain financing sector, has announced investments in five Fintechs based in the UK and Asia: Tradeteq, Trade Finance Market, Culum Capital, eFundSME and Incomlend. Launched in September 2017 with… Read More

January 25, 2018 @ 9:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Singapore-based fintech platform tryb Group announced on Thursday it secured a $30 million investment by Makara Innovation Fund, a $717 million private equity fund that invests in IP-driven small- to mid- companies with the aim of scaling, internationalizing and creating enterprise value. Founded in 2016, tryb describes… Read More