Fintech Frontiers: Uncovering Deeper Opportunities for Investment and Venture Creation
At Echelon Philippines 2024, the panel ‘Fintech Frontiers: Uncovering Deeper Opportunities for Investment and Venture Creation’ brought together industry experts to explore emerging trends, niche markets, and potential disruptions in Southeast Asia’s financial technology landscape and delved into the opportunities and challenges facing the fintech sector in the region.
Moderated by Naveen Asrani, Head of Strategic Growth at AWS for ASEAN, the panel featured Jeremy Young, Associate at Gentree Fund; Juancho Jimenez, Vice President at Openspace VC; Sevastian Romberg, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Premise; Luis Buenaventura, Assistant Vice President at GCash.
The panel explored fintech’s transformative impact on banking, payments, and insurance, highlighting the potential of AI-driven financial services, blockchain, and digital banking to reshape these sectors. Key areas of opportunity emerged in untapped markets where fintech innovations could address pressing needs in the region, such as enhancing financial literacy and developing tailored lending solutions for SMEs.
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Regulatory hurdles and the challenges fintech startups face as they scale were also a focal point, particularly in Southeast Asia, where navigating complex regulatory landscapes is essential for sustainable growth. Additional insights covered the region’s credit gap, rising opportunities in insurtech, and the growing demand for cloud-based payment infrastructures.
The session concluded with insights on how innovative financial technologies, like AI-driven services and blockchain, can transform Southeast Asia’s economy.
Watch the session video above to learn more about these insights and the strategies shaping the future of entrepreneurship.
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