the asia chapter

Asia Neobank Radar

Chapter steward: seat open — earned, not given · 68 Asian neobanks tracked · radar source file

Most neobank users on earth live in Asia — and it gets the thinnest coverage of any region. This radar is the correction. A running log of the developments that matter across Asian digital banking — licenses granted and revoked, rails launched, funding that changes the map — under the same rules as everything else on this site: a source for every claim, null over guesses, and nobody pays to be featured.

Asian neobanks

817M+

reported users

licensed banks

HQ countries

traditional · 65hybrid · 0web3-native · 3

🇮🇳 India · 12 🇮🇩 Indonesia · 9 🇸🇬 Singapore · 8 🇵🇭 Philippines · 6 🇻🇳 Vietnam · 6 🇲🇾 Malaysia · 5 🇯🇵 Japan · 4 🇰🇷 South Korea · 3 🇵🇰 Pakistan · 3 🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR China · 3 🇨🇳 China · 2 🇧🇩 Bangladesh · 2 🇹🇭 Thailand · 2 🇹🇼 Taiwan · 2 🌍 multi-hub · 1

The 68 on the radar

🇨🇳 WeBank400M 🇮🇳 PhonePe200M 🇵🇭 GCash94M 🇧🇩 bKash70M 🇵🇭 Maya30M 🇰🇷 KakaoBank23M 🇲🇾 AEON Bank 🇮🇳 Airtel Payments Bank 🇮🇩 Allo Bank 🇸🇬 ANEXT Bank 🇸🇬 Aspire 🇮🇩 Bank Jago 🇮🇩 Blu by BCA 🇲🇾 Boost Bank 🇻🇳 Cake 🇮🇩 DANA 🇮🇳 FamPay 🇻🇳 Fizen 🇮🇳 Freo 🇮🇩 GoPay 🇵🇭 GoTyme Bank 🇸🇬 GrabPay 🇲🇾 GXBank 🇸🇬 GXS Bank 🇮🇩 Jenius 🇮🇳 Jio Payments Bank 🇮🇳 Jupiter 🇰🇷 K bank 🇹🇼 LINE Bank TW 🇹🇭 LINE BK 🇮🇳 Mahila Money 🇸🇬 MariBank 🇯🇵 Minna Bank 🇻🇳 MoMo 🇭🇰 Mox Bank 🇨🇳 MYbank 🇧🇩 Nagad 🇵🇰 NayaPay 🇹🇼 NEXT Bank 🇮🇳 Niyo 🇮🇳 Open 🇵🇰 Oraan 🇮🇩 OVO 🇯🇵 PayPay Bank 🇮🇳 Paytm 🇯🇵 Rakuten Bank 🇮🇳 RazorpayX 🇲🇾 Ryt Bank 🇵🇰 SadaPay 🇮🇩 SeaBank 🇮🇳 slice 🇯🇵 Sony Bank 🇸🇬 Startale 🇮🇩 Superbank SurfCash 🇻🇳 Timo 🇻🇳 TNEX 🇵🇭 Tonik 🇰🇷 Toss Bank 🇲🇾 Touch 'n Go eWallet 🇹🇭 TrueMoney 🇸🇬 Trust Bank 🇵🇭 UnionDigital 🇵🇭 UNO Digital Bank 🇭🇰 WeLab Bank 🇸🇬 YouTrip 🇭🇰 ZA Bank 🇻🇳 ZaloPay

The radar

the seat is openThis radar starts with its steward: someone who knows Asia's market better than the fintech press does. The trial — four sourced radar entries and one audit pass of the 68 Asian rows in the dataset — puts your name and byline on this page. Open an issue and make the case.

The chapter model

A chapter is two jobs in one: this radar, and data stewardship — the chapter holder audits and maintains their region's rows in data.json, and every regional addition or correction gets their eyes before it merges. Entries and fixes arrive by pull request, get reviewed like any other change, and ship with the contributor's byline. The trial to hold a chapter: four sourced radar entries and one full audit pass of the region's data.

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