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  • September 19, 2026

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...

  • September 17, 2026

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...

  • September 16, 2026

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...

  • September 14, 2026

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...

  • September 13, 2026

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...

  • September 12, 2026

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...

  • September 7, 2026

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...

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