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Southeast Asia is among the world's fastest-growing fintech markets. Market growth is anticipated to reach between $70 billion and $100 billion by 2020.
Southeast Asia is currently viewed as a significant fintech incubator and a rising cryptocurrency powerhouse thanks to the emergence of grants, programs.
The time is quite sensitive and challenging, but it is also an opportunity for a breakthrough for Vietnam to grow virtual currency based on blockchain technology.
Hong Kong's Finance Minister made it clear the need for digital transformation and confirmed that will conduct technical trials using China digital yuan
We believe that in some of the Asia-Pacific markets: a new openness to innovation by regulators; the advent of virtual banks; the growth of the API ecosystem.
In Southeast Asia, fintech is the largest VC investment category by number of backed startups with 484 ventures, ahead of marketplace, health and proptech.