“The potential to benefit millions of small and micro-entrepreneurs in the Philippines, and in other emerging markets in addition to raising income levels and increasing financial inclusion is huge,” he added.
- Philippines: An intro to yufin, merchant fintech platform enabling underserved and often unbanked SMEs in emerging markets to enter the digital economy
- Philippines: Alibaba Netpreneur Training to launch with QBO Innovation Hub, Gobi Partners VC firm and JCI Manila, a 4-week program focusing on online commerce
- Philippines: Central bank is exploring 3 key technologies for new financial market infrastructure, including blockchain, whilst developing POCs in 6 technologies including AI
- Philippines: Asia Open RAN Academy launches, backed by Tokyo and Washington, to boost open radio access network knowledge across members of ASEAN
- Philippines: A brief intro to MadEats, a Y Combinator graduate ‘full-stack’ food delivery-only firm featuring virtual shop, ‘ghost kitchens’ and a fleet of drivers
- Philippines: Investree crowdfunding platform launches ‘2gether Towards the Future’ campaign to help the country’s SMEs, looking to expand Dept of Trade & Industry partnership
- Philippines: DigiCon Valley 2022 conference set for October, delivered by the Internet & Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines
- Philippines: An intro to Advanced Abilities and Smartscan AI-enabled X-ray platform, able to detect up to 25 chest pathologies in 2 minutes, tapping a database of 6M images
- Philippines: IdeaSpace Demo Day lands investment for Betterteem, Fitscovery and Twala, startups working on HR tech, fitnes management and fintech solutions
- Philippines: Alibaba Cloud x KrASIA Startup Accelerator Philippines Demo Day finals set for July 27th, running from Draper Startup House in Makati
- Philippines: Dart quick-commerce startup to launch 15-minute grocery delivery services, partnering Robinsons Supermarket’s 274-outlet chain
- Testing, testing… We’re on Substack, and issue 1 is out now – quick tech news from across Asia for a time-poor readership
- Singapore’s JiPay backed by Manila Angel Investors Network, to provide wide-spectrum financial services to migrant domestic workers across SE Asia
GSMA: Digital Societies in Asia-Pacific – progressing towards digital nations
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