Fintech Nation
Fintech Nation is a development institution based in Singapore, founded in 2020 by Varun Mittal. Its areas of operations consist of books, ecosystem development projects, investment fund and a think tank. Fintech Nation started with the launch of a book titled, Singapore: The Fintech Nation, Relentless Pursuit of Excellence in 2020. ISBN 9814923214 Search this book on 
.[1][2][3], followed by a second book, The FinTech Nation: Excellence Unlocked in Singapore in 2023.ISBN 9789811249150 Search this book on . [4][5]
The Investment fund of Fintech Nation invests in early-stage fintech and embedded finance companies in Southeast Asia through both equity and debt instruments.[6] [7] Fintech Nation has undertaken ecosystem projects likes Fintech65 [8][9] which is an award program to recognize emerging talent in the industry, and Superhumans of Fintech [10] to recognize people making meaningful impact to the lives of founders to help in building their business. The think tank publishes reports and articles in the domains of investment landscape[11] and financial inclusion.[12]
Books
Fintech Nation Books chronicled Singapore's evolution as a fintech hub and recognizes founders, community leaders, and startups. They were created to document and tell how Singapore became successful as a fintech hub, with no clear, consistent way to understand the process before. Therefore, the book's authors set out to develop a storyline of how and what made Singapore a successful fintech hub and track historical development to identify common themes, attributes, and characteristics that explain the current state and possible impact on the future.
Authors Varun Mittal and Dr Lilian Koh analyzed all the fintech investment transactions to identify and prove the correlation between programs undertaken by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to identify high-potential companies and their impact on success. In addition, they conducted 70 primary interviews, bringing together the stories and journeys of founders and enablers of the fintech ecosystem, including access to capital, customers, talent, and policy initiatives which have made them and Singapore successful. They also analyzed key regulatory policy decisions and the background of how some of the foundation blocks of Fintech Nation were set up and evolved.
The first book traced Singapore's journey from 2015 to 2020, starting with establishing regional hubs and internationalizing fintech innovation, with a foreword by Monetary Authority of Singapore Managing Director Ravi Menon and an opening chapter by the Chief Fintech Officer of MAS. The first book was titled, “Relentless Pursuit of Excellence,” and it reflected upon the spirit of Singapore and its fintech community to pursue constant innovation and improvement. In 2023, authors published the sequel to the first fintech nation book, looking at how Singapore could strengthen its position as a Fintech Hub in a post-COVID world facing sky-high inflation and geopolitical challenges with multiple wars. The second book was titled, “Excellence Unlocked in Singapore”, which focused on how Singapore and its community bounced back and focused on being a beacon of success for Asia.
Fintech Nation book is also credited with coining the term, Singanomics, which is trademarked by the author, Varun Mittal.
Singanomics is a unique system of economics that is embodiment of right public private partnership for inclusive and sustainable development. In such a system market forces define the majority of outcomes and the progressive government develops a broader structure of guidelines and policy investments to enable innovation and competition to develop for betterment of consumers and social order.
Investment Fund
Fintech Nation Fund was one of the featured investors at The Big Spark, reality TV show aired with Channel News Asia Singapore with Vanessa Ho representing the fund on the show.[13][14]. It has undertaken equity investment in companies like Finfra, Choys, TripleA and MitoHealth. It also led a $5M USD debt investment round in Singapore company, Sleek, focused on SME digitization. [15]
See Also
References
- ↑ DiBiasio, Jame (2020-12-17). "Book Review: Singapore: The Fintech Nation". Digital Finance. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- ↑ OurBridgePlus By CapitaLand (2020-12-11). FinTech Nation Book Launch @ Bridge+ in Singapore FinTech Festival 2020. Retrieved 2024-11-01 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Singapore, the garden of innovation – exclusive interview with Varun Mittal". thepaypers.com. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- ↑ Singapore, Fintech News (2023-11-15). "Meet 'Future of Fintech' Authors Varun Mittal and Dr. Lilian Koh at SFF 2023". Fintech Singapore. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ↑ "The FinTech Nation: Excellence Unlocked in Singapore". Epigram. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ↑ Menur, Anisa. "Fintech Nation integrates thought leadership and community into its startup support initiatives". e27. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ↑ "Fintech Nation Fund joins inaugural The Big Spark series as guest venture capital investor". AsiaOne. 2024-03-19. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ↑ "FinTech65 Set for August as FinTech Nation Seeks to Honour Leaders and Trailblazers in Singaporean FinTech". Disruptive Tech News. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ↑ Cynopsis, Marketing (2023-08-30). "FINTECH65: Celebrating Innovation and Leadership". cynopsis-solutions. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ↑ Baronchelli, Andrea (2024-06-12). "Aspire & Fintech Nation Honor Unsung Heroes of Fintech Community with "Superhumans of Fintech"". DigitalCFO Asia. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ↑ "Forget Unicorns, Meet The Dragons". gftn.co. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ↑ "The impact of Embedded Finance on the gig economy". thepaypers.com. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ↑ "Two start-up founders embraced causes close to their hearts to build thriving businesses". CNA. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ↑ "Fintech Nation Fund joins inaugural The Big Spark series as guest venture capital investor". AsiaOne. 2024-03-19. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ↑ Staff, TechNode Global (2024-09-30). "Singapore's Sleek secures $5M in debt financing led by Fintech Nation Fund". TNGlobal. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
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