Some interesting news from African start up economy 2 from the start ups side ( One on Fund raising and one on secondary which is rarer in the African start up and hence more interesting !!! ) and one from
Mom & Pop stores are the new battlegrounds for Fintech in Asia & Africa ?Mom & Pop stores are increasingly becoming the most important element in the Fintech strategy . And good reason for that :
a.) Increase the breadth
One of the big promise of 5G is speed. Data from operators like Singtel has shown proven speeds of 1 Gbps on 3.5 GHz.(1)
Ofcourse , this needs to be seen how the speeds hold up when the actual commercial
Tencent earnings
Tencent earnings will be out on 19th March .
Its earnings are being watched closely as it will be a bell weather for the Chinese tech stocks and their Outlook in the Corono hit world.
Tencent’s overall business
Blockchain has opened a whole new dimension for Financial services as well as Technology players enabling new industry collaborations. Frost & Sullivan has just completed a recent report on APAC Fintech opportunities where we highlight Blockchain as an important development enabling
First of all thanks to Vidya and Sybi from NUS Career Services for inviting me to be a panelist for this interesting Consulting pitch competition at NUS. It was quite different from the Consulting case study pitches been involved in the past.And