Hong Kong Fintech Unicorn WeLab To Enter Increasingly Crowded Indonesian Digital Banking Market

WeLab, a fintech unicorn startup based in Hong Kong, is planning to launch a digital bank in Indonesia in the second half of this year, following its $240 million deal to buy a controlling stake in Bank Jasa Jakarta. However, Indonesia’s digital banking market will be tough to crack, as traditional banks and tech companies have rushed into the growing market.

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Hong Kong seeks new markets through Asean free-trade deal as US-China trade war rages on

Free-trade deals with Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar take effect on Tuesday, with the rest of the bloc to follow Government has vigorously funded local ventures to new markets The intensifying US-China trade war has battered Hong Kong, prompting it to look to new markets and trade mechanisms such as those presented by the upcoming free-trade deal with Asean, the

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