This article showcases our top picks for the best Southeast Asia based Banking companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Banking industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Southeast Asia Banking Startups
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Xendit
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Xendit is fintech company that provides payment infrastructure across South East Asia.
M-DAQ
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M-DAQ provides a sustainable ecosystem for securities and stock exchanges to enable multi-currency trading on a cross-border basis.
Kristal.AI
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Kristal.AI develops a digital private wealth platform designed to make premium investments available to the masses.
TONIK
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TONIK is a digital bank that provides retail financial products, including savings deposits, loans, current accounts, payments, and cards.
Vauld
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Vauld is a Singapore-based crypto platform. It enables customers to buy, lend, borrow and trade crypto assets from one unified platform.
Aspire
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Aspire is an all-in-one finance operating system for growing businesses in SouthEast Asia.
PAYFAZZ
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PAYFAZZ is an agency-based financial platform that facilitates digital transactions and payments.
Akulaku
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Akulaku is a leading banking and digital finance platform in Southeast Asia.
OY!
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OY! is a fintech application that simplifies the management of finances.
Fazz Financial
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Leading Fintech which offers a portfolio of products that enable merchants / consumers to accept payments, transfer, bank, and invest.
Bank Index
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Bank Index provides lending services to small and medium enterprise.
BDO Unibank
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The market leader in the domestic banking industry in the Philippines.
UnionBank of the Philippines
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UnionBank of the Philippines is a publicly-listed universal bank.
Crowdo
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CROWDO is a digital financial solutions platform powered by Neobank technology for SMEs in emerging markets.
SeA Bank
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SeA Bank is a banking institution that provides services like preferential loans, tax service, online transaction solutions and more.
VPBank
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As one of the earliest-established Joint-stock Commercial banks in Vietnam, VPBank has achieved steady development throughout its history.
Hodlnaut
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Hodlnaut is a platform that provides financial services for individual investors.
Techcombank
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Techcombank is now joint-stock commercial bank in Vietnam.
Security Bank Corporation
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Security Bank Corporation is one of the Philippines’ leading universal banks serving retail, commercial.
Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam
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BIDV is a Vietnamese commercial and state-owned bank engaged in the provision of investment banking services.
United Overseas Bank
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United Overseas Bank is a bank in China that caters to SMEs with financial services.
Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank
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One of the best commercial joint stock banks in Vietnam.
Silot
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Silot is a Singapore-based Fintech startup that empowers banks with a fast and scalable AI platform.
N-Frnds (nFrnds)
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N-Frnds’ unique agency network platform combines digital and physical distribution networks in emerging markets.
Hugo Save
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Hugo is a digital account that helps you spend, save and invest, starting with gold.
China Bank
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China Bank is the country’s first privately owned local commercial bank
MyMy
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MyMy is a fintech focused on digital payments and financial inclusion.
An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ABBANK)
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ABBANK is a commercial bank that provides consumer and corporate banking services.
BigPay
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Bringing fair and transparent financial services to Southeast Asia
HolyWally
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HolyWally is the world’s first wallet-as-a-service platform that combines adaptability, rapid scalability, and optimized user experience.
HDBank
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DBank is a commercial bank that offers consumers, corporations, and investors a comprehensive range of financial and banking services.
Thai Credit Retail Bank.
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Thai Credit Retail Bank Public Company is a Computer Software company located in Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand.
RootAnt
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The 1st Transaction Neobank in Asia, to achieve easier, faster, cheaper working capital solutions with digital banking technologies.
Yoma Bank
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Yoma Bank is a progressive domestic bank that provides banking services in Myanmar.
Rizal Commercial Banking
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RCBC is the financial flagship company of the Yuchengco Group of Companies (YGC), one of the oldest and largest conglomerates.
Cashlez
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Cashlez operates as a financial technology company that provides value propositions for traders, and mobile payment players.
Mahar Bawga Finance
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Mahar Bawga Finance is a non banking financial institution.
TheBank
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TheBank Provides account services to customers by receiving deposits and loan payments.
XSpring Capital
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XSpring Capital is applying for licences for all digital asset businesses except a digital asset exchange with the (SEC).
PT Bank Bisnis Internasional
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PT Bank Bisnis Internasional is a non-foreign exchange private commercial bank.
LZVCPA
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LZVCPA Inc., provides Financial, Audit, Tax, IT, Telecom, Call Center, Legal, Advisory & Private Banking, including niches & crypto markets.
Finbots.AI
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Singapore-based B2B SaaS fintech transforming financial services with AI
CDRX
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Trade global equities, bonds and derivatives as securitised tokens (Crypto Depository Receipts) – faster, cheaper and fractionally
UOB Venture
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UOB Venture is an investment firm that finances privately-held companies through direct equity investment.
Staple
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Staple develops cognitive AI to read, interpret and extract structured data from documents at scale, regardless of layout or language.
SmartPesa
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Omnichannel payments and agency banking solutions provider, incorporating mPOS, card and non-card based payments
Xfers
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Xfers is a Major Payment Institution approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore for the provision of e-money issuance services.
DBS Bank
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DBS Bank is a Singapore-based bank, providing full range of services in consumer, SME, and corporate banking activities.
Bank Maspion
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Bank Maspion conducts banking business, securities business, and other related businesses.
OOjiBO
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OOjiBO solution works as a full stack retail banking system on a mobile phone.
PortfolioQuest
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PortfolioQuest is a SaaS gamified simulation training platform designed for bankers of the future.
Azentio
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Azentio Software provides critical, vertical-specific software products for customers in banking, financial and insurance services.
The Praxis Company
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The Praxis Company is a Company create a place to accelerate financial literacy education .
First Finance MFI
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First Finance is a banking company that builds the economic stability of low-income Cambodian families & allow access to home ownership.
Interloan
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Interloan is a P2P lending platform for salaried professionals in Vietnam.
Jirnexu
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Jirnexu delivers end-to-end digital acquisition tools and solutions for FSIs and service providers.
SCB Group
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Siam Commercial Bank Group is Thailand’s first indigenous bank.
Kasikorn Bank
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Kasikorn conducts commercial banking business, securities business, and other related businesses.
Vietnam Payment Solution
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VNPAY is a financial services company that provides electronic payment solutions in Vietnam.
Monetary Authority of Singapore
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Central Bank and Financial Regulator in Singapore
Bank Negara Indonesia
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BNI offers integrated financial services to its customers.
Moneythor
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Moneythor is a financial technology company delivering better digital banking for customers and enhanced marketing & analytics for banks.
Marketnode
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An SGX-Temasek joint venture — Traditional markets, next generation digital assets infrastructure
Friox Technology
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Consumer Finance advisory, Debt Purchase
Friz
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Friz is a neobank for the brave and relentless freelancers of Southeast Asia.
OnePuhunan Micro Ventures Philippines Financing Co.
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OnePuhunan provides financial services in the Philippines focusing on low income individuals and small businesses which are not served
Bank Neo Commerce
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Bank Neo Commerce provides various online and offline commercial banking services.
Geniusto
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Geniusto is a global fintech solutions provider offering Mobile & Internet Banking, Payments Orchestrator, Coresystems, LMS/LOS
Novasmart
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Novasmart are developing of digital bank with the ecosystem of non-financial services for SME and retail and providing SaaS for fintech
Liquid Group
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Liquid Group is a regional mobile payment services group that provides a network to enable local & cross-border QR payment acceptance.
Bank Central Asia
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Bank Central Asia is an Indonesian private bank that provides financial solutions to achieve optimal satisfaction for customers.
RHB Bank Berhad
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RHB Bank Berhad provides Credit Cards, Loans, Wealth Management, Deposits, Islamic Banking.
Silverlake Axis
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Silverlake Axis creates technologies to enable the Digital Economy.
OCBC Bank of Singapore
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OCBC Bank of Singapore provides its clients with various financial services, ranging from transaction banking to stockbroking services.
Bank Rakyat Indonesia
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Bank Rakyat Indonesia specialises in small scale and microfinance.
Halofina
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Halofina is a robo-advisory platform in Indonesia that cover a whole aspect of personal finance
Bank of the Philippine Islands
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Bank of the Philippine Islands is the oldest bank in the Philippines still in operation and is the country’s third largest bank.
Metrobank
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Metrobank is a financial service company that offers banking services to large local and multinational corporations.
Bank Negara Malaysia
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Bank Negara Malaysia is a Malaysian bank that offers banking and financial services.
Asia Commercial Bank
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Asia Commercial Bank is a retail bank that offers internet banking, an open API sandbox, and a cloud-based security infrastructure.
1337 Ventures
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1337 is a technology accelerator and early stage venture capital focused on doing pre-seed and seed stage investments in Malaysia.
Asian Development Bank
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ADB is a development finance institution provides loans, technical assistance, equity investments, and grants for development activities.
Online Loans Pilipinas
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Online Loans Pilipinas is a fintech platform that offers digital financial solutions that uplift the financial well-being of customers.
One Network Bank
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One Network Bank provides banking services.
Bank Indonesia
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Bank Indonesia is the central bank of the Republic of Indonesia that establishes and maintains rupiah’s stability.
Digital Ventures
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Fintech subsidiary of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), Thailand’s oldest and largest bank.
PT Bank HSBC Indonesia
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PT Bank HSBC Indonesia serves as a commercial banking institution in Indonesia.
TpBank
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TpBank provides commercial banking products and services in Vietnam.
Foreign Trade Bank of Cambodia
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Foreign Trade Bank of Cambodia is a banking firm that offers financial services.
Contemi Solutions
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Technology partner to financial industry, providing digital solutions for insurance, asset & wealth management, banking & capital markets.
Vietcombank
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Vietcombank is a foreign trade bank that provides a wide range of financial services in international trade.