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PLDT To Invest $100m In Big Data Services
DEALSTREETASIA: The Philippine Long Distance and Telephone Co (PLDT) is planning to invest around $100 million in its Big Data business, meant to help companies and government agencies develop more...
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Philippines Growth Racing Ahead of Neighbors
The Wall Street Journal: The Philippines’ economy is shedding its reputation as a laggard and outpacing others in the region—with the fastest growth rate among major economies in East Asia after China....
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PH Startup PawnHero Wins The Judges’ Choice Award at Echelon Asia Summit 2015
DEALSTREETASIA: Philippine fintech startup PawnHero has won the Echelon Asia Summit 2015 Judges’ Choice Award in Singapore Wednesday night, beating nine other finalists out of the original 500...
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15 Southeast Asian Fintech Startups Worth Looking At
TECHINASIA: Vladislav Solodkiy, Life.SREDA VC: It has been almost 2 months since I relocated to Singapore. During this time I saw about 100 fintech projects at different stages. My last article was...
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Unbanked Stories: Thai, Myanmar, Mexico, Bangladesh, and the Philippines
E27.CO: Philippines-based fin-tech startup LoanSolutions has raised an undisclosed round of funding from a group of international investors led by KK Fund, with participation from other venture...
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Uber For Banking? Coins.ph Turns People Into ATMs
TechInAsia: Philippine Bitcoin startup Coins.ph has come up with a way for you to move money without having to deal with a bank. A new service on its Bitcoin wallet called “Teller” turns anyone with a...
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PH fintech firm Ayannah raising $3m capital
DealStreetAsia: Philippine financial technology (fintech) company Ayannah is in the process of raising $3 million in its Series A round led by 500 Startups and Life.SREDA, and other fintech tech...
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Portal lets maid take control of earnings sent home to Philippines
By Joanna Seow, Remitting money home is sometimes a frustrating exercise for Filipino maid Nilda Sesaldo, 37. Despite sending home a generous portion of her hard-earned money for her family to spend...
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India’s online financial marketplace BankBazaar expands into Singapore
By Sainul Abudheen K for e27.com It is also looking at other growth markets in Asia, including Malaysia, the Philippines and the UAE BankBazaar.com, a financial marketplace for customised rate quotes...
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Golden Gate Ventures: the upcoming rise of M&A in ASEAN
By Liz Lee for DealstreetAsia Magazine, Singapore-based early-stage venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures foresees the pace of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in Southeast Asia catapulting, as...
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Fintech group C88 raises undisclosed Series B round led by Telstra Ventures
By Anisa Menur for e27 Existing investors Monk’s Hill Ventures and Kejora Ventures also took part in the round, with many others participating Fintech company Compare88 (C88) today announced that it...
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Payments startup Coins.ph just raised $5m from some familiar names
By Michael Tegos for TechInAsia Online payments startup Coins.ph has landed a series A funding round worth US$5 million, the company announced today. The round is led by Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund,...
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The China century: Ant Financial tops global fintech innovation list
By Anisa Menur A. Maulani for e27 Alibaba Group’s fintech arm Ant Financial has been announced as the number one company in the Top 50 Established list of the Fintech100 2016, an annual list of the...
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The Filipino Startup Disrupting The Pawn Shop Industry
By Casey Hynes for Forbes When David Margendorff arrived in the Philippines several years ago, the country’s financial system piqued his interest almost immediately. While working with a fintech...
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6 fintech startups from Asia that excited us in 2016
By Michael Tegos for TechInAsia Fintech is going strong in Asia as the year draws to a close. According to the Pulse of Fintech Q3 2016 report by global audit and advisory firm KPMG, venture capital...
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Philippines Considers Bitcoin Regulation amid Remittance Increase
By Rebecca Campbell for CryptocoinsNews he Philippines government is discussing whether to regulate digital currencies like bitcoin in the country to improve protection for its citizens as the number...
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After surge in transactions, Philippine central bank regulates Bitcoin
By Judith Balea for TechInAsia The Philippine central bank has decided to regulate virtual currencies, particularly Bitcoin, with more and more people using it to transfer money across borders. Taking...
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Jack Ma’s Ant Financial makes first investment in the Philippines
By TechInAsia Just over three months after Ant Financial first made a move into Southeast Asia with an investment in Thailand, the Chinese web giant has taken a stake in a fintech company in the...
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Alibaba’s Ant Financial extends global reach with first investment in the...
By TechCrunch Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial has again extended its global reach after it completed its maiden investment in the Philippines. The company, which manages payment service Alipay and...
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Ayannah launches an AI-powered Credit Scoring Service for the Unbanked
By Fintechnews Singapore Ayannah, a provider of affordable and accessible digital financial services for emerging markets, has partnered with Bayad Center, the bills payment subsidiary of Meralco, the...
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