As the leading mobile wallet in the Philippines, GCash is aiming to level up its partnership with the public sector to accelerate the adoption of cashless payments through a year-long workshop series. The fintech player is poised to host the ‘GCash for the Nation’ annual conference and workshop...
There are certain places and events that require a specific type of attire. For example, if you’re attending a wedding, the couple might say that you should wear “formal” clothes or that the dress code is “black tie.” Fortunately, “formal” and “black tie” are easy enough to...
The new leadership at the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA), which administers the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport (CSEZFP), is looking at new investment potentials in agriculture, manufacturing and logistics to diversify its current investment portfolio beyond interactive gaming...
Local banks are in the sights of global fintech platforms provider, Intellect Design Arena, which targets the Philippines as a lucrative "strategic market". Over the short term, in just in a couple of years, the company expects to haul in $10 million revenues per annum, around P546 million, from...
TECH4GOOD Monchito Ibrahim The rapid digitalization of everything we do today is fast changing the country's financial inclusion landscape. Although the share of the unbanked population in the country is still one of the highest in the Asia Pacific region according to Statista research, the...
BayaniPay, a Los Angeles-based Filipino fintech company, targets to get 20 percent of the $146 billion global market for Filipino remittances in three years, CEO Winston Damarillo told reporters. Already, BayaniPay is the first cross-border digital financial service for the 4.2 million strong...
(L-R) Ann Cuisia, President and CEO, digiCOOP; David Almirol, Jr., Undersecretary for e-Government, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT); Io Guballa, Business Lead for Banking Services, UBX; Albert Tinio, Co-CEO and Chief Commercial Officer, GoTyme Bank; and Edison Tsai,...
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...
