Becoming a great retail bank is a journey and not a destination. UnionBank stood out on the global stage at the recently-concluded Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) for the fifth consecutive year as the lone Filipino bank gold sponsor bannering the “Tech Up Pilipinas” advocacy that is the...
Digital Pilipinas Convenor Amor Maclang cited for work in Fintech in ASEAN Amor Maclang (center) receives her Global Fintech ASEAN Leader award from Jia Hang, General Manager of SEA, Ant Group (left) and Shadab Taiyabi, President of the Singapore FinTech Association (right). Digital Pilipinas...
Tonik, the first digital-only neobank in the Philippines, just recently announced that Tomasz Borowski is the company's new Group Chief Operating Officer (COO). He will be based in Singapore and employed by Tonik’s holding company Tonik Financial Pte Ltd, while working closely with the Operations...
The Internet & Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP) has finally unveiled this year’s theme for the biggest and most anticipated Digital conference in the country. DigiCon Valley 2022 will tackle the landscape of digital marketing transformation with brands, advertising...
Experts and advocates of Islamic finance presented the trends and outlook in the growing sector, including ED Nelly Dillera - PTTC; DED Dhim Radia - PTTC; Dr. Zalina Binti Zakaria -Head, Halal Research Center of Islamic Health, Universiti Malaya; Dr. Dalal Aassouli - Asst. Professor, Islamic...
Financial technology (fintech) is democratizing access to financial services, especially in developing countries like the Philippines and super apps like are becoming the trend as both businesses and consumers take on more loans. These are the top trends in Southeast Asia as the region of over 600...
Bayad and PCI Bayad continues to trailblaze the fintech industry being the trusted brand in the outsourced payment collection service in the Philippines. Having aggregated a multitude of billers that are now being used by more than 100,000 physical touchpoints and leading digital and mobile...
69769 To curb possible misuse of mobile wallets for illegal vote-buying in the May 9, 2022 elections, fintech companies pledged to implement safeguards in user onboarding and account verification processes to allow transactions to be traced easily. The fintech companies made the commitment during...
65270 As demand for digital financial solutions skyrocketed in the pandemic, local open finance platform UBX quintupled its revenues last year and expects to sustain its growth momentum in 2022. In 2021 alone, UBX hauled in P20 billion in annual gross transaction value serving over 200,000 business...
More than 71% of Filipinos remain unbanked and have zero access to financial services, based on the 2019 survey of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). This unbanked sector includes aspiring entrepreneurs and MSMEs resulting in their inability to secure funding and support to expand their...
Logo Homegrown fintech startup NextPay, which was launched in the middle of the 2020 pandemic, posted more than P1 billion in total transactions in 2021 and expects to continue its growth momentum this year. “The year 2021 was a banner year for NextPay. From being part of the Y Combinator Program...
Have you ever heard of ‘financial stress?’ According to experts, this condition refers to that state of anxiety or emotional tension related to money, debt, and expenses. Money, in fact, is one of the most universal sources of stress. Financial stress has been found as one of the main concerns...
