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15 Inspiring Fintech Founders from South East Asia to Follow
Southeast Asia’s financial services industry is rapidly evolving as a result of disruption from new-age fintech companies and the rapid adoption of fintech solutions. The rise of fintech in the region has been fueled by Southeast Asia’s expanding economies, young-urban-digitally-savvy
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Top Fintech Vietnam News from March 2018
Happy April Fool’s! Hope we got your attention with the ‘Breaking News’ about the Timo/Momo/Payoo Merger. Sure, it’s only an April fool, though we do wonder about the effects of such a merger. Truemoney became now already the 28th payments provider
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The 7 Hottest Fintech Startups and Solutions in Vietnam
Vietnam is a very Internet-connected country, and with the increasing penetration of smartphones there is a wealth of opportunity for online businesses, digital agencies and application developers. Like other late-adopters of Internet technology, Vietnam has benefited from the cheap hardware
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Vietnam Banks Dominate ASEAN Top 100 – But The Future’s in Your Pocket
Vietnamese lenders make up a fifth of the top 100 ASEAN banks in 2016 says The Banker, a leading financial industry publication. It is an interesting situation. Vietnam’s banks actually have 19 representatives on the top 100 list this year,
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6 Fintech Startups From Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam to Watch
With a little over 30 players, Vietnam’s fintech startup scene is still quite small and yet, industry experts and observers are confident of the sector’s tremendous potential given the country’s massive Millennial population and high Internet and mobile phone penetration
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Too many Innovation Labs too few Innovations “Dances With Drums” by Fintech-Hubs and Banks
There are so many innovation labs and too few innovations. I regularly meet with bankers worldwide and the first phrase I hear (especially in Asia) from those who decided to invest in fintech (there are few of them so far,
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3 Must-Have Fintech/Finance Apps for Expats in HCMC
Possibly the first thing you think about as an expat is money – how to manage it, where to store it, how to earn it, how to move it, etc. And as any expat in Ho Chi Minh will tell you, navigating the
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Top Fintech Vietnam News – June/July 2016
Fintech Vietnam Meetup is back with another newsletter, July 2016 edition. With the fast pace of the recent development in Fintech, there are a lot of local and international news that we would like to share with you today. Make
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Momo – The Rising Star of Vietnam Fintech in Online Payments
With one-quarter of the population aged under 25, Vietnam has a real potential for disruptive technology to gain mainstream attention. Launched in June 2014, MoMo, a service of M_Service, which works both as an e-wallet and a payment app, has
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Mobile Banking Surges in Asia
Mobile is already the largest banking channel by volume of transactions and its adoption by new customers is entering an exceptionally rapid phase. A survey (pdf) by McKinsey and Company found that across ASEAN (Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,
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