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DBS Didn’t Tokenise Gold for Gold Buyers
Singapore savers could already buy gold on a banking app at any hour, from a third of a gram. DBS’s […]
RCBC’s ₱100,000 Door Into Priority Banking
Hexagon Club promises exclusivity for the price of a used motorcycle. The bank’s own numbers on whether that bet paid […]
PBCOM Fixed Its Core Banking System. Its App Still Gets 3.3 Stars.
A record profit year at the Philippines’ 17th-largest bank was won at the branch counter and the corporate lending desk, […]
Xendit Just Bought the Slowest Payment Method in the Philippines
Five years after quietly investing in a 16-year-old cash-payment gateway, Xendit finally folded it in. The deal reveals more about […]
Visa Doesn’t Want Your Business. It Wants to Be Underneath It.
In eight months, Visa Direct got wired into GCash, RCBC, and BPI, three competitors who now share the same invisible […]
Sun Life Skipped the Checkup. It Kept the Sales Call.
EasyLink Protect removes the medical exam and the paperwork from buying life insurance in the Philippines. It does not remove […]
Security Bank Picked the Cheaper Problem to Solve
Its unsecured Business Express Loan beats paying a compliance penalty. It isn’t the product that closes the ₱971.5-billion gap the […]
Chinabank Was a Niche Bank Before “Niche Banking” Had a Name
Its new business app digitizes checks instead of killing them. That’s a sharper read of its own customers than most […]
Bank Jago’s Numbers Are Real. Its Underwriting Almost Isn’t.
Bank Jago’s deposits and loans grew 38% last year. It got there by hiding inside GoTo’s app instead of building […]
Ryt AI Gets Used. Its “Built by Malaysians” Story Isn’t as Clean.
Ryt Bank’s in-house assistant, Ryt AI, logged more than 10 million interactions in its first year and drives real repeat […]
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