Organized by the Transactives, the 4th annual Global Payment Summit (GPS) was held from 12 to 13 November this year at Sofitel Singapore Sentosa Resort & Spa, Singapore. The Global Payment Summit (GPS) in Singapore is a two-day conference where key thought leaders, topic experts and leading practitioners from the payment sector gather to discuss issues and raise solutions for the transaction space in Asia. The event provides a platform for networking, offer opportunities to take part in dialogue sessions and attend presentations to fuel a state of constant innovation to stay ahead of time. FOMO Pay was one of the […]

Louis Liu, co-founder of FOMO Pay, was invited to speak at Morgan Stanley’s 15th Asia Pacific Summit held at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore from 16 to 18 November 2016. Since 2002, Morgan Stanley’s Asia Pacific Summit has been regarded as the region’s preeminent working conference. Every year, the conference brings together global investors, senior corporate executives and policy makers to participate in panel discussions, network and learn from one another. Prominent speakers include Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in 2003, and Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in 2002. This year, the conference comprised of more than 3,000 individual meetings and more than […]

Co-organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS), the Singapore FinTech Festival is a week-long event that gathers participants from the global financial community for a series of engaging events including informative conferences on FinTech, Tech Risk and RegTech, workshops, networking events and startup competitions. Conference Day 1 (16 Nov): Dialogue with technology and finance leaders on digital and mobile payments. Singapore’s FinTech sector is flourishing with the large ecosystem of banks, technology firms and universities that help support its development, and strong government support. The inaugural Singapore FinTech Festival plays a […]

Hosted by Visa, the FF17 Singapore Semi-Final was held at the Visa Innovation Lab on 16 November in conjunction with the Singapore FinTech Festival week this year. The top 10 to 15 FinTech startups in Singapore were given 4 minutes each to awe the judges in order to get into the FF17 Finals. FOMO Pay was selected as one of the semi-finalists in Singapore. Yang Zhan, co-founder of FOMO Pay, impressing the judges at FF17 Singapore Semi-Finals.  FF17 Semi-Finals are held in 9 other countries aside from Singapore – Bangalore, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney and […]

On 18 November 2016, DBS HotSpot 2016 reached the final segment of its programme – Demo Day. After a gruelling 3-month programme of training and workshops, the final 9 teams were chosen out of 250 applicants to enter the DBS HotSpot Pre-Accelerator. These teams were Cafebond, Flide, Foodrazor, HugProperty, Inncee, Pegaxis, Seedly, SushiVid and ToucanApp. Each team received a S$25,000 entrepreneur award for zero equity, and were given help from experienced mentors to further develop their product and refine their pitch and sales strategies. These teams also had an exclusive opportunity to pitch on Demo Day. As the winner of […]

Singapore – 13 November 2016 – FOMO Pay today announced that it has been selected as a candidate for Red Herring’s 2016 Top 100 Global award, a prestigious recognition honoring the year’s most audacious and far-reaching private technology companies and entrepreneurs from across the globe. The Red Herring editorial team selected the companies demonstrating the most innovative technologies and business models originating from over 1,000 companies from more than 40 nations. These companies, representing past Red Herring Asia, Europe and North America award winners in their respective regions, are judged on a range of qualitative and quantitative metrics, including but […]