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Singapore Plans Year-End Fintech Event Amid Virus Restrictions
Singapore is planning an online and physical fintech festival amid the spread of the coronavirus across the globe.
The Singapore FinTech Festival x SWITCH 2020 event, which will run 7 to 11 December, will allow participants to meet at key physical locations and connect to an “online city,” the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Enterprise Singapore said in a joint statement on Monday. There were about 60,000 participants at last year’s event.
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