Singapore FinTech Festival
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Genre | FinTech |
Frequency | Annual |
Venue | Singapore Expo |
Location(s) | Singapore |
Country | Singapore |
Inaugurated | 2016 |
Founders | Monetary Authority of Singapore |
Participants | from 140 countries (2019) |
Attendance | 60,000 (2019) |
Website | Official website |
Singapore FinTech Festival(SFF) is the largest FinTech festival in the world and a global knowledge platform for the global FinTech community.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Background
SFF is organized annually by the Monetary Authority of Singapore in partnership with The Association of Banks in Singapore and in collaboration with SingEx Holdings.[1]
Initial SFF 2016 had started with a number of features including the FinTech Awards, the Global FinTech Hackcelerator and three FinTech conferences which focused a number of topics such as API, Big Data, Blockchain, Machine Learning, RegTech and Tech Risk.[10]
There were a number of international dignitaries participated including Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (in her capacity as the Secretary-General of the United Nations’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance Development) and Arun Jaitley, India’s Finance Minister and Minister of Corporate Affairs.[11]
2016
There were more than 13, 000 international participants from 60 countries in 2016.[10]
2017
There were more than 30,000 international participants from 109 countries in 2017.[11]
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Nearly 40% of the participants were C-suite, senior management level decision makers and influencers.[11]
There were 300 exhibiting companies and more than 100 startups with 8 country pavilions - France, India, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Poland, Switzerland and USA.[11]
2018
There were more than 45,000 international participants from 130 countries in 2018.[12]
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2019
There were more than 60,000 international participants from 140 countries in 2019.[13]
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SFF × SWITCH
SFF and Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology (SWITCH) had the collaboration first time in 2019 with a week long events and activities focusing FinTech and deep technology.[13]
SFF 2019, which was held from 11 to 15 November 2019, drew a 60,000 participants from 140 countries comprising industry professionals, founders, investors, academics, and government agencies.[14]The event was attended by 100% of the top 50 banks in the world.[15]
References
- ^ a b "Singapore FinTech Festival". Monetary Authority of Singapore. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- ^ "The underdogs of Southeast Asia's fintech scene: Early Stage". KrASIA. November 17, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ^ "Singapore FinTech Festival 2019" (PDF). Deloitte. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ^ "First combined fintech festival, SWITCH kicks off today". Business Times (Singapore). November 11, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ^ "Singapore Fintech Festival Reports Over 60,000 Participants this Year". Crowdfund Insider. November 19, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ^ "6 local startups to present at Singapore Fintech Festival". The Express Tribune. November 7, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ^ "BHIM's QR code-based payments demonstrated at Singapore FinTech Festival". Business Line. November 13, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ^ "Money FM Podcast: MAS CFO shares takeaways from Singapore Fintech Festival 2019". The Straits Times. November 18, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ^ "Singapore imagines a brave new fintech future". Asia Times. November 15, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ^ a b "Singapore Fintech Festival 2016" (PDF). Monetary Authority of Singapore. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Singapore Fintech Festival 2017" (PDF). Monetary Authority of Singapore. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- ^ "Singapore Fintech Festival 2018" (PDF). Monetary Authority of Singapore. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- ^ a b "Singapore Fintech Festival 2019" (PDF). Monetary Authority of Singapore. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- ^ "Inaugural SFF x SWITCH sees over 60,000 participants from 140 countries; event to return on 9-13 November 2020". Monetary Authority of Singapore. November 19, 2019. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "Top 10 Global Fintech Hubs:Singapore". BizClik Media Limited. July 23, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
External links
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- Singapore FinTech Festival 2016 (Post Show Report)
- Singapore FinTech Festival 2017 (Post Show Report)
- Singapore FinTech Festival 2018 (Post Show Report)
- Singapore FinTech Festival 2019 (Post Show Report)