Startup News:
The Philippines
In 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
