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Jul 01 2020 RCBC’s “Taglish SuperApp” DiskarTech to Target Millions of Unbanked Filipinos
Experience the Philippines’ first Taglish inclusion super app.
Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) has launched what they described as the country’s first all-in-one “Taglish” inclusion super app, DiskarTech. Taglish refers to the Philippine language Tagalog infused with American English terms that has been widely used by Filipinos locally and abroad. The app aims to provide sachet…
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Jun 07 2020 Bill Taxing Digital Economy in Philippines to Kill “Infant” Industry, Says Fintech Sector Group
Fintech Alliance.ph, a coalition of fintech and digital companies, has tagged a proposed bill in the House of Representatives to tax electronic transactions as an “abortifacient” to the digital transformation of the country.
Lito Villanueva
“We fully understand that taxation is the lifeblood that sustains and nourishes every government,”
writes Lito Villanueva, chairman of Fintech Alliance.ph.
“But we are…
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May 22 2020 WATCH: FinTechAlliance.ph We Bounce Forward Digital Forum with Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Benjamin Diokno
FinTechAlliance.ph held its We Bounce Forward Digital Forum on “Pump-Priming a Digital Economy Post COVID-19” with BSP Governor Benjamin E. Diokno for the keynote, together with key figures in the industry last Wednesday, May 20 (Wednesday) Live on Facebook.
The digital forum has been viewed 30,000 times as of this post
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May 19 2020 BSP chief: Fintechs should play bigger role in post-pandemic PH economy
The central bank wants local financial technology (fintech) firms to play a bigger role in the new economy that will emerge from the coronavirus pandemic to include lending money on a retail basis—functions previously the exclusive domain of traditional financial institutions before the COVID-19 crisis.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Benjamin Diokno said so-called fintech companies…
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May 12 2020 Top 7 Fintech Startups in the Philippines for 2020
Last year, Manila was named one of the world’s friendliest cities in the world for fintech startups, and was recognized for its strong English-language skills and well-established outsourcing industries.
Fintech companies already compose 15% of Manila’s startups, according to Startup Genome’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report, and the market is expected to grow from about US$5.7 billion in 2018…
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Apr 29 2020 Bank-Genie’s BanqIn gears up to provide financial inclusion solution in the Philippines
As the government sets sights on curbing the number of unbanked Filipinos in the countryside and provide them access to financial services and financial inclusion programs, BanqIn, an instant all-in-one digital banking platform developed by Bank-Genie vows to support these to empower all sector in this underserved market segment.
Through BanqIn’s innovative and transformational solutions, its…
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Apr 29 2020 RCBC Bank Pulls a Philippine Fintech Thought Leader to Chair Their Innovation Office
The song and dance for incumbents in Philippines right now is “future-proofing”. Joining the trend of entrenched establishments disrupting themselves before they are disrupted, the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) appoints Lito Villanueva as Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation and Inclusion Officer effective May 1, 2019.
Villanueva is no small fry, known to be a…
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Apr 07 2020 5 Fastest Growing Fintech in The Philippines According to IDC
IDC Financial Insights today released the 2020 update of its FinTech Fast 101 research which details a list of fast-growing FinTechs in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) from 11 key markets.
IDC’s FinTech Fast 101 research refers to fast-growing fintech players based on extensive on-ground analysis of fintech players from China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, and Australia.
5 Fast Growing FinTechs in the…
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Mar 25 2020 Bayanihan Global Fund Campaign: I Want to Help!
Together in faith and in action, let’s help our countrymen overcome COVID-19. Your donations will be used to provide food bags and hygiene kits to poor families in Luzon and NCR to be distributed by Caritas Manila. Be somebody’s blessing. Details on how to donate are indicated in the photo.
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Mar 18 2020 Bayanihan to Beat COVID-19
FinTechAlliance.ph and the Philippine Disaster Resiliency Foundation (PDRF) have joined forces to encourage fellow Filipinos to help in generating funds to purchase much-needed Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for our medical personnel – the country’s brave and selfless frontliners.