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The local fintech sector is laying the groundwork for an industry-led fraud-intelligence sharing system aimed at curbing scams and helping lenders differentiate good borrowers from bad, with full deployment targeted before 2028.Lito Villanueva, founding chair of Fintech Alliance Philippines, the country’s largest organization of financial technology companies, said the pilot phase of the upcoming information…

Despite strong growth in digital payments and fintech’s continued dominance in the Philippine startup ecosystem, many opportunities remain, especially in person-to-government (P2G) payments, micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSME) financial services, and remittances, according to a new report by Gobi Partners, an Asia-focused venture capital (VC) firm headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, says.

The report, released in November, looks…