Singapore Fintech Festival meets virtual reality

Launch of landmark fintech event hit by IT snafu.

Monday brought the Singapore Fintech Festival, a week-long event of quite extraordinary scope.

Twenty-four hours a day for a full week with sessions for every time zone and featured addresses from several world leaders, the chief executives of companies as big as Google and Microsoft, and the heads of many of the world’s largest banks.

Bill Winters? Check. Jane Fraser? Check. Noel Quinn, Jes Staley, Piyush Gupta, Ralph Hamers, Thomas Gottstein? All on board.

It must have taken thousands of hours to pull it all together.

‘Not recommended’

There was just one problem.

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