Following the Money
12 October 2019 |
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Caecilia Chu, Co-Founder and CEO of YouTrip and Bin Ru Tan, CEO (Southeast Asia) of OneConnect Financial Technology in conversation with Bloomberg's Diksha Gera at The Future of Data in Singapore on Sept 4th 2019.
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