Thunes recognised at the 2023 Singapore FinTech Festival Awards
Thunes, the global B2B cross-border payments infrastructure company, has been awarded second place in the “Corporate – Singapore Fintech” category at the 2023 Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) Global FinTech Awards.
Operated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Singapore FinTech Association (SFA), this accolade recognises Thunes for its cutting-edge fintech solutions, creating innovative growth opportunities and championing financial inclusion. As second-place winner, Thunes will receive an award of S$50k from the organisers.
Thunes competed against hundreds of entrants to become a finalist along with Finmo Tech Pte Ltd, iLex, Sensen Technology Pte. Ltd, Stemly, and Whitechalk Pte. Ltd.
Thunes’ entry, “Transforming payments with global interoperability” outlines the company’s achievement in building a unique and interoperable payments network, which facilitates instant, low-cost acceptance and money movement to empower businesses and people worldwide.
“I’m deeply honoured by this immense recognition at the Singapore Fintech Festival. We’ve spent years meticulously building our global payments infrastructure across 130 countries to help our customers move money more efficiently. Much of our success is due to our incubation in Singapore, which provides a perfect environment for growth with its top talent, strong regulatory framework and entrepreneurial spirit.”
Peter De Caluwe, Thunes’ CEO
The full list of award winners can be found here.
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About Thunes:
Thunes is a global payment innovator enabling businesses to move money in real-time and in full transparency. We empower our customers to pay and get paid by anyone, anywhere, and however they prefer, closing the gap between payment systems worldwide. With Thunes, large, medium and small companies can Accept cards, bank transfers and more than 330 alternative payment methods, and Pay over 3 billion mobile wallets and 4 billion bank accounts.
Thunes facilitates payments in more than 80 currencies across 130+ countries, using local payment methods, including 120 mobile wallets like PayPal, M-Pesa and Airtel, for gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, IMTOs, Fintechs, PSPs and banks. Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has a presence in 13 locations, including Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, London, Manila, Nairobi, Paris, San Francisco and Sao Paulo.
Thunes puts money in motion. For more information, visit: https://www.thunes.com/
