THE NEXT WAVE - FINTECH COMING ASHORE

2018's mid year total

is catching up fast with 2015's peak:

heating up

continuesto climb

Global FinTech patent publications

Global FinTech investment �gures were obtained from KPMG's Pulse of FinTech 2018 reportFinTech patent publication �gures were derived as of Oct 27, 2018

Mid-2018US$57.9b

2017US$38.1b

2016US$42.3b

2015US$62.5b

Largely driven by

Ant Financial's US$14bfunding and Vantiv's US12.9bacquisition of WorldPay.

Technology companies made up 50% of top 50

global FinTech patent players between the years 2013-2018,

while Financial Institutions made up 16%.

12,058 total patents published in 2018,

on track to break 2017’s record of 13,592.

China’s FinTech publications grew 49% between

the years 2013 – 2018 as compared to an overall

8% growth across all technology �elds.

Insurance-related inventions breached

the 1k mark for the �rst time, with

1,044 publications in 2018.

2018 Top 3 country �lers amount for 83% of worldwide FinTech publications:

Singapore’sFinTech scene is

92 FinTech publications in 2018, surpassing 2017’s peak of 83.

Payment leads most popular �ling area with new record high of 77 publications.

Mastercard International and Alibaba continues to dominate the local scene in 2018.

record year2018 global FinTechinvestment is a