Philippines

OneLot, the Philippines’ financing platform for used car dealers, has raised $3.3 million in seed funding to expand affordable financing and digital tools for independent dealerships.

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Asialink Group of Companies, a Philippine non-bank financial institution (NBFI), has secured a $75-million syndicated term loan facility arranged by Standard Chartered Bank (Standard Chartered) — its maiden foreign and the first social syndicated loan for a local NBFI.

Sari-sari stores are rapidly digitalizing their operations, driven by a significant increase in e-wallet use, according to a new report from Filipino tech startup Packworks.

Pentagreen Capital, manager of a blended finance strategy under Singapore’s Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership (FAST-P) initiative, and Citicore Solar Energy Corporation (Citicore), part of the Citicore Renewable Energy Corporation, announced last Thursday a financing of $55 million to unlock the implementation of solar and battery storage projects in…

Green GSM, the all-electric ride-hailing brand under the GSM ecosystem, has signed a memorandum of understanding with AMRC Renewable Corporation/Xentro Motors, a subsidiary of the Philippine-based Xentro Group of Companies, for the supply of 2,000 VinFast electric vehicles to support future operations under the Green GSM platform.

The Singapore-based payments infrastructure platform HitPay has partnered with France-based electronic payment solutions firm Ingenico to launch "all-in-one" system to boost Philippine small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) digital payments adoption.

​The Philippine central bank Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) announced Thursday that it will stop accepting new applications for digital bank licenses starting December 1, 2025.

EBANX, a Brazilian technology company specializing in cross-border payment services, has announced its expansion into the Philippines through the integration of the country’s two leading e-wallets GCash and Maya.

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