Southeast Asia’s cross-border ecommerce market hit $45.39 billion in 2025 and is forecast to reach $84.74 billion by 2031, growing at a 10.97% CAGR (Mordor Intelligence). That growth is remarkable … Read more
MoMo isn’t just Vietnam’s most popular e-wallet. It’s the country’s definitive case study in how a mobile payments startup can grow into a full-blown financial super app — and finally … Read more
Razorpay is India’s dominant full-stack payments and business banking platform, processing an annualised total payment volume (TPV) of $180 billion across more than 12 million merchants. Co-founded in 2014 by … Read more
India now has 660 million smartphone users, and the vast majority of them have never owned a laptop, never had a broadband connection, and never used a desktop browser to … Read more
PhonePe processes nearly half of all digital payments in India, and it’s not particularly close. As of December 2025, the Walmart-backed fintech held a 48.7% share of UPI transaction value … Read more
Asia’s fintech ecosystems don’t scale the way Western ones do. They scale faster, wider, and along a predictable ladder that starts with payments and climbs through lending, insurance, and wealth … Read more
Paytm’s story is the most dramatic comeback arc in Asian fintech. The company — formally One97 Communications — went public in November 2021 at a $20 billion valuation, watched its … Read more
Toss, operated by Viva Republica, isn’t just South Korea’s most popular fintech app — it’s the clearest proof that the Asian super app model can work outside China and Southeast … Read more
China delivered 199 billion parcels in 2025 — up 13.7% year-on-year — generating express delivery revenue of 1.5 trillion yuan ($215 billion), according to the State Post Bureau. That’s more … Read more
Kakao Corp isn’t a messaging company that bolted on services — it’s a platform conglomerate that grew out of a chat app. As of its 2025 full-year results, Kakao reported … Read more