The digital financial institution market in Singapore has grown following the launch of Belief Financial institution, a partnership between Commonplace Chartered and native retailer FairPrice.
The challenger financial institution affords the standard retail banking service, together with a numberless bank card which the financial institution claims is a market-first for Singapore.
“We strongly consider we shall be setting a brand new normal for digital banks – a large product vary, utterly clear product design with no hidden charges and a really intuitive and simple buyer expertise,” mentioned Dwaipayan Sadhu, CEO of Belief Financial institution.
The shareholders, Commonplace Charted and FairPrice holding firm BetaPlus, have collectively invested $285m within the venutre and maintain 60% and 40% stakes respectively.
The launch of Belief comes sizzling on the heels of GXS, a digital financial institution for shoppers and enterprise launched by Telco Singtel and superapp Seize which launched earlier this week.
In the meantime in June Chinese language e-commerce large Ant Group launched Anext, a wholesale digital financial institution in Singapore.