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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cake by VPBank’s Profit Is Real. So Is the Risk Underneath It.
A close read of how Vietnam’s first EBITDA-profitable digital bank built a genuinely differentiated lending business around a credit...
How Southeast Asia’s Niche Banks Actually Get Built
Almost every digital bank in Southeast Asia that’s now profitable, or close to it, started as one narrow observation...
The Old Data Behind Southeast Asia’s New Insurtech Winners
A close read of how PasarPolis, Igloo, bolttech, Qoala, GCash, Grab, and a farmer cooperative called CLIMBS turned checkout...
Philippine Banks Aren’t Inventing New Products. They’re Reconnecting Old Ones.
A close read of how RCBC, UnionBank, GoTyme, Tonik, Security Bank, CIMB, Landbank, BPI, Maya, and GCash turned government...
Inside the Playbook Behind Southeast Asia’s Profitable Fintechs
Every quarter, another Southeast Asian fintech announces a raise, a license, or a “record” user number. Most of that...
Why Most Insurtech Startups in Southeast Asia Die Young (And What the Survivors Do Differently)
Southeast Asia’s insurtech boom threw off dozens of well-funded platforms between 2019 and 2022. A lot of them have...
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