IM@GINARIUM ADVISORS PTE LTD
At Im@ginarium Advisors, we combine intelligence, insight, and imagination to deliver bespoke advisory services to seed, early and growth-stage fintechs in SG that are looking to build product capabilities, go-to-market strategies or strengthen delivery processes. Client engagements are structured around specific business problems and are worked on using a multi-disciplinary toolset. Arvind Sankaran, the firm’s founder and Managing Director has 25 years of global expertise in consumer financial services. He has built and run retail banking and wealth management businesses at global banks such as Citi, HSBC, and Barclays in five countries and two continents spanning ASEAN, Middle East, Europe, and Latin America. He is a chemical engineer by training and earned an MBA at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Arvind is a member of the Indian Business Leaders’ Roundtable in Singapore. He is also on the Executive Committee of the Pan IIM Alumni Association. He currently in on the advisory board of two SG-based fintechs- Crayon Data (advanced analytics) and Tookitaki (AI/machine learning)
We are an Asia-based blockchain advisory and investment firm founded by finance veterans.
Xendit is a leading payment gateway for Indonesia, the Philippines and Southeast Asia
iPayLinks provides cross-border enterprises with a global one-stop platform for cross-border payment
Headquartered in Singapore, WongPartnership is a market leader and one of the largest law firms in the country. We offer our clients access to our vast network spanning our office in China, practices in India, Thailand and Vietnam, and WPG, a regional law network of member firms in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Together, WPG offers the expertise of over 400 professionals to meet the needs of our clients throughout the region.
Our expertise spans the full suite of legal services to include both advisory and transactional work where we have been involved in landmark corporate transactions, as well as complex and high-profile litigation and arbitration matters.
WongPartnership’s FinTech practice is consistently at the forefront of developments in the FinTech sector. Our multidisciplinary team of specialists collaborate across various areas to support our clients holistically in all legal, transactional and regulatory aspects. These include technology and media, financial regulation and compliance, intellectual property, capital markets, corporate mergers and acquisitions, tax and employment where we are highly recognised in leading legal journals.
WongPartnership is a signatory member of the United Nations Global Compact (“UNGC”). As a member of the UNGC, we support the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.
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Switchnovate is responsible for the international hub function of the CTIA Group. In Singapore, where companies with diverse business interests from all over the world gather, we use cutting-edge technology and know-how to help create new business models for various institutions. Our purpose is to support enterprises’ value development.
Formed by combining “Switch” and “Inovate”,“Switchnovate” represents our aim to advance a client’s digital transformation mainly through employing the characteristics of blockchain technology and making good use of them. We will contribute to the world by “Switching” businesses to digital frameworks and “Inovate” their business models and processes.
Digix issues gold backed tokens, DGX, on the Ethereum blockchain. Every DGX token represents 1 gram of gold, fully redeemable for gold bars from LBMA refineries. With DGX, 99.99% fine gold bars are made divisible, transferable and spendable.
The Cryptocurrency Exchange
FINTECHFORCE helps businesses safeguard vulnerable areas of financial databases, prevent breaches
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices.
UOB provides a wide range of financial services globally through our three business segments – Group Retail, Group Wholesale Banking, and Global Markets and Investment Management. Our offering includes personal financial services, private banking, business banking, commercial and corporate banking, transaction banking, investment banking, corporate finance, capital market activities, treasury services, brokerage and clearing services, asset management, venture capital management and insurance.
UOB continues to play an active role in the fintech ecosystem. Its involvement includes but is not limited to The FinLab, a fintech accelerator which is a JV between UOB and SGInnovate to develop promising fintech startups in the early stage, and Innoven, a JV wiith Temasek to provide venture-debt financing to Series C and above startups. In addition, UOB is in a strategic partnership with OurCrowd, an equity crowdfunding platform that raises funding for startups in Series A to C.
PingCAP is a Database Unicorn, providing open-source distributed database TiDB for companies
We help companies navigate heavily regulated environments in a constantly changing world by closing the gap between legislation, regulations, and company’s obligations and how they are applied in business operations.
Mednefits makes it easy for businesses to take care of their employees
International Corporate Law Firm
Arttha is a Digital Bank in Box software with solutions for omnichannel payments and loans
Endowus is a Singapore-based fintech that empowers people to take control of their financial future.
Enabling Financial Institutions to stay ahead of the curve in an evolving market, regulatory, and technology landscape by transforming service delivery through a combination of domain expertise, technology acumen, and analytical prowess.
Founded in December 2017, the company was set up by a team Of highly innovative professionals and entrepreneurs in the areas of education, finance and Information Technology with the main objective of providing a single platform for individuals or companies that is incorporating crypto currencies and blockchain as part of Their portfolio.
Through our own monitoring the crypto currencies money market closely, the company is committed to providing its clients with convenient access to the crypto currencies money market.
The company also focuses on nurturing and educating those who are unfamiliar with the crypto currencies markets and blockchain and help them embark on capitalizing on the blockchain and crypto currency revolution.We do this through our education platform.
GUUD is a Leading Trade Technology business, specialising in facilitating global trade.
CHOYS is a Digital Chief Well-being Officer empowering employees with personalized care.
SGX-listed OIO group’s blockchain arm providing B2B blockchain consulting and development services