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Licensed investment guides, or what remains of them, mostly cater to the rich, as complying with regulations means incurring substantial costs. Fintechs like ET Money and Value Research may have a solution for the lot left behind
And Juspay counts on merchants to come to its aid after the two payment aggregators parted ways with it
Flipkart’s interest in backing Super.money has a lot to do with the third wave of UPI. But Super.money is bringing a knife to this gunfight
After laying strong foundations for the Philippines’ biggest e-wallet, Albert Tinio is back at it again. The co-head of Gotyme shares his secret to convincing millions of people to bank digitally
The last quarter was the company’s best in two years as it scrambles to onboard merchants and tries to make the most of a year-long regulatory ban
The founder-CEO's insistence on having a workforce that is largely self-reliant is now impeding the fintech's growth
Earlier this year, the banking regulator audited fintechs and flagged concerns with regard to daily operations, pricing, and credit risk. Fintechs see this as ‘RBI overreach’
Three-year-old Shivalik Small Finance Bank is everything a fintech isn't
The fintech’s lending play is wholly dependent on its ability to upsell loans to its existing customers
American and Chinese tech giants, such as Microsoft and Alibaba, are competing in Southeast Asia, where local service providers are using AI to attract young, tech-savvy users
Sea Limited’s digital financial-services arm has found a steady earnings footing by straying from its own ecosystem
The lender must secure its portfolio as it gears up for its IPO, even though it already makes solid profits from its loans
To give its digital-only identity a facelift, the payments giant zeroed in on a lucrative offline market. But it’s proving a tougher nut to crack—even if there's a Paytm*-shaped void
In a saturated, competitive market, thousands of field agents working for Indian fintechs hustle daily to ensure that merchants choose their platform
Outstanding MSME-segment loans of the country’s top three digital lenders—Seabank Indonesia, Bank Jago, and BNC—fell 22% in the nine months to September
The nod for Slice-North East Small Finance Bank merger shows that the regulator is open to using fintechs to rescue troubled banks
A failed acquisition, loss of market share, a pending licence to operate—payments provider PayU has its work cut out
KPMG and the media consider the fintech to be the next big thing in Indonesia. But its products for content creators are still small
The metal card survived RBI’s regulatory storm that hit rivals Slice and Uni, but its bank partnerships are tempering growth
Little did Linkaja know what was in store when it acquired the peer-to-peer lender to bolster its entry into financial services
After tasting success early in the Philippines, the Indonesian company shifts focus to BNPL and lending to shore up margins
Hamilton Angluben led the finserv arm of the world’s largest pawnshop chain and catapulted one of the first fintech-lending apps in the Philippines to success. Now, he is finding the balance between crazy and brilliance as a pioneer in the country’s insurtech sector
The fintech giant’s 250% loan growth reveals a distribution machine. It has packaged its onboarding and collection services to entice its lending partners. Yet, the market is divided on this strategy
India’s central bank has thrown many curveballs at the unicorn lending fintech, leaving it to navigate a complex path. Despite the efforts to steer its way out with new products, Slice finds itself adrift in a sea of dwindling user numbers
Though Philippine telco Globe started out as the industry latecomer, Ernest Cu's leadership propelled it to market dominance. Now, Cu is guiding the company towards another transformation
A regulatory shift in the way India handles financial data is likely to disrupt Lentra’s space. And while other geographies offer new opportunities, they also come with local challenges
With rising interest rates and looming job losses, three young fintechs—Multipl, Hubble, and Tortoise—are pitching save now, buy later as the way forward for a range of purchases. But this is something banks have tried in the past, without much success
Home Credit sold its Indonesia and Philippine units to Japanese and Thai banks in November. India and Vietnam remain part of the group. It was not a grand exit for the consumer-lending firm, but a path likely to be followed by peers
Piramal Finance, one of India's largest non-banking lenders, is taking hits in its traditional business model and attempting a 180-degree flip, thanks to far smaller companies. But this is at a time when fintechs are facing an acute funding crunch.
The likes of CRED and MobiKwik want to lend to their customers when several fintechs have been unable to do so with NBFCs. And peer-to-peer lending marketplaces, struggling to scale, are now keen to acquire customers at low costs
Filipino mom-and-pop stores control the lion’s share of all retail transactions. B2B players are eager for a slice of the pie, but the real prize may be the micro-merchants’ communities
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is attempting to curry favour with regulatory bodies in Vietnam and Cambodia after hitting the legal wall in other Southeast Asian countries
The Singapore-based fintech doubled its revenue to ~US$190mn and posted a profit of US$30mn in 2021. But neither figure paints a pretty picture of BNPL’s prospects
Having postponed its rights issue twice this year, the Ant Group-linked neobank plans to give it a go again in October, before new rules requiring bigger cash reserve kick in January 2023
Deloitte, EY, PwC, and KPMG have unlocked a new, high-margin revenue stream: making sure fintechs don't fall afoul of rapidly changing rules
The payment gateway is doubling down on payroll management to grow its neobanking platform, RazorpayX. But its self-imposed limitations could prove to be counterproductive
The hard part was developing an identity, which is now a bit of a crisis. Slick features and offerings have attracted a few million users, but growing revenue will require changing customer behaviour and building trust
Fintech Voyager, the parent of e-wallet PayMaya and newly launched digital bank Maya Bank, became the Philippines’ second unicorn earlier this month. In its sights is the Philippines’ top e-wallet spot, currently held by rival GCash
The wealthy Widjaja family’s business empire spans palm oil, mining, property, and financial services. While Sinar Mas has fended off lawsuits and critics for decades, its newfangled digital ventures—including crypto—are trying hard to cultivate a clean, modern image
Bagging India's largest private lender as a client has boosted Zeta's ambitions and helped it bag funding. But what the firm promised HDFC Bank is yet to be delivered. Success could be the proof-of-concept for Zeta's ambitions but failure could hobble its flight
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