[Article has been updated on 24 October 2020, 1:30pm] 14 years ago, Anthea Indira Ong, founder of Hush TeaBar, found herself in a state of hopelessness and despair. In an interview with Vulcan Post, Anthea described the situation she was in at that time as a “whole series of collateral …
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With SingPass’ new facial recognition technology launched last Wednesday (29 July), Singapore residents can now open an online banking account by taking a selfie. Instead of entering your ATM or credit/debit card number and a PIN, facial recognition can be used as a substitute for traditional verification procedures. DBS is …
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On the evening of July 27, StashAway users began writing panicked Facebook posts in groups about how their bank accounts had been practically drained by the robo-advisor wealth management platform in a series of back-to-back transactions. These came with no indication of why it was happening, leading some to think …
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We’ve talked before about scams that target your banking information and how the best way to combat these scams is to avoid sharing your information in the first place, but can you be scammed or hacked after providing your bank account information for a legitimate reason, like for employee direct …
Read More »Is It Safe to Share Bank Account Information?
We’ve talked before about scams that target your banking information and how the best way to combat these scams is to avoid sharing your information in the first place, but can you be scammed or hacked after providing your bank account information for a legitimate reason, like for employee direct …
Read More »Food Bank S’pore Has A Plan To Help Hungry S’poreans And The F&B Industry At The Same Time
As food prices continue to go up, many low-income families struggle to put food on the table as salaries are not increasing as quickly so The Food Bank Singapore (FBSG) aims to help with that. What the charity does is that it collects and delivers food donated from individuals and …
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