Ant, Grab and Shopee's owner win Singapore digital bank licences

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A consortium involving China's Greenland Financial Holdings is the fourth winner. FMTNews MAS Singapore

Four digital banking licences were awarded by the Monetary Authority of Singapore today.

Singapore joins the UK and Hong Kong in opening up its banking system to purely digital entrants, as it seeks to inject innovation and competition into a market dominated by traditional lenders. MAS said it decided to award licenses to two wholesale applicants which met its expectations and were demonstrably stronger across the criteria. MAS had previously said it would give as many as three wholesale licenses.

 

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