The Monetary Authority of Singapore announced yesterday (December 4) the award of four digital bank licenses in Singapore. Out of the four, Grab-Singtel consortium and Sea — the parent company of e-commerce giant Shopee — has won the bid for two digital full banking licenses. Following this grant, Grab-Singtel consortium …
Read More »Grab-Singtel Consortium and SEA (Shopee) Awarded Full Singapore Digital Banking License
According to an article on Business Times, the Grab-Singtel consortium as well as ecommerce conglomerate SEA has just won the digital full banking license awarded by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Singapore is taking a big step forward in fintech with the opening of digital bank license applications by …
Read More »Machine learning groups form Consortium for Python Data API Standards to reduce fragmentation
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Deep learning framework Apache MXNet and Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) today launched the Consortium for Python Data API Standards, a group that wants to make it easier for machine learning practitioners and data scientists no matter which framework, library, …
Read More »IBM launches High Performance Computing Consortium to give coronavirus researchers access to supercomputers
Following the launch of its 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge, IBM today announced that it will coordinate an effort to provide over 200 petaflops of computing power to scientists researching COVID-19, the coronavirus that’s sickened over 300,000 people. The company anticipates that the capacity will be used to develop …
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