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...
Will LightInTheBox save Ezbuy and itself?
The announced acquisition price of Ezbuy was above the market cap of LITB after Thursday’s trading.
LITB took a series of actions, including replacing CEO...
Will OYO win in Indonesia?
My colleague recently wrote about OYO’s rapid development in China. In fact, armed with Softbank arsenal, OYO just launched in Indonesia last month.
It...
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,...
News and content tech giant Toutiao enters ecommerce
Toutiao is an undisputed giant in the content and news aggregator market in China. We have also written about how its video app “Tik-Tok”...
Can companies still accept investment from Saudi Arabia?
Saudi reporter event continues. The executives of "unicorns" who have received or seek to receive big investments from SoftBank's Vision Fund may now have...
