July, August & September 2019
July 2019 / August 2019 / September 2019
The Philippines’ startup news:
July 2019
- An intro to Philippines-founded Denarii Cash mobile app, helping overseas workers send remittances home
- An overview of the Philippines’ $30BN remittance market and the app-based startups focusing on it
- Philippines: Startup Genome’s overview of Manila’s startup ecosystem
- Philippines: Edusuite secures $235K with AI-backed tech for schools administration
- Philippines: UnionBank issues peso-pegged PHX, the country’s first stablecoin, and conducts first Filipino blockchain-based transaction
The Philippines’ startup news:
August 2019
- Philippines’ central bank approves 2 companies to operate virtual currency exchanges
- Philippines: Gov’t signs Innovative Startup Act into law to provide access to travel grants, visas and business permits, venture funding and more
- Philippines: An interview with Connected Women’s Gina Romero on returning career freedom to Filipinas
- VESL fintech takes She Loves Tech Philippines 2019 win with trade finance focus
The Philippines’ startup news:
September 2019
- Philippines: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, central bank, awarded for fintech and regtech activities including AI-backed chatbot and API-based data management
- Philippines arrests 277 Chinese nationals running cryptocurrency investment scam aimed at mainland China
- Philippines: Boxing champ Manny Pacquiao launches own cryptocurrency, the Pac token, be listed on Singapore’s Global Crypto Offering Exchange
- Philippines: “…hired guns in one of Manila’s hundreds of troll farms churning out fake content, false narratives and anything else the client wants”
- Philippines: State-owned Overseas Filipino Bank to be the first branchless digital lender in the country primarily catering to clients based abroad
- Philippines: Government’s digitaljobsPH program aims to create ICT-focused jobs for socio-economically disadvantaged areas
- Philippines: An introduction to Gasmee, mobile app-driven fuel-delivery service
- Philippines: PayMongo platform secures $2.7M seed funding to provide easier ways for merchants to collect payments online
- Startups from Indonesia and the Philippines make it to final 10 of 2019 Accelerate2030, a program focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
