Final verdict: how many 2018 SEA predictions did we get right?
GoPay, bitcoins and corporate innovation are the biggest disappointments.
Singapore Fintech Week: Investors on the hunt for the right match
The halls of the Singapore Expo were filled with investment enthusiasm last week during the three-day Singapore Fintech Festival. Investors were almost desperately looking for a match, as opportunities seem to be served on a silver platter. Yet, when walking around the exhibition and talking to entrepreneurs, a clear message was formulated: ...
Will Dana become “Alipay” in Indonesia?
In April 2017, Ant Financial announced to establish a joint venture together with Emtek to develop mobile payment products.
Emtek operates three Indonesian TV channels,...
Can Ant Financial afford to be complacent?
Both Ant Financial and Tencent have been jostling over the mobile payment space in China. It seems all the other players have been relegated...
Why is Brazilian payment company StoneCo so popular?
Brazil's banking system is one of the most bureaucratic in the world, and the five largest Brazilian banks (namely, Itau Unibanco, Banco Santander, Banco...
MW launches the Emerging Markets Tech Investment Index at Wuzhen Summit
Wuzhen, 6 Nov, 2018 - Momentum Works has officially launched the Emerging Markets Tech Investment Index (EMTII) at the prestigious 5th World Internet Conference,...
Can Tencent match Ant Financial after $175 million investment in Philippine...
The main product of Mynt is e-wallet GCash
Voyager was founded in 2013, and owns e-wallet PayMaya, remittance service provider Smart Padala, lending platform Lendr,...
Chinese fintech lenders flock to the Philippines
We wrote towards the end of last year that Chinese consumer loan apps were flocking to Indonesia.
In July, Indonesia’s financial services regulator OJK...
Tencent puts US$200m in Brazil’s Nubank – is it a wise...
In 2014, when Nubank was a small company, it received a $14 million investment from Sequoia Capital. As for why Sequoia Capital ever noticed...
Why P2P companies in China collapse en masse
Good entrepreneurs are often held ransom by circumstances