Substantial Growth in Payments & Transfers, Alternative Lending, E-Wallets and Digital Banking Sectors Over the Past Two Decades

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  • 09.02.2023 11:35 am

It has been estimated that by 2022, the total amount of fintech businesses involved in Payments & Transfers, Alternative lending, E-Wallets and Digital-banking increased from 34 to 1254. This is a massive 3588% rise over the two decades, accounting for 15.4% of all operational fintech companies.



India has the highest number of companies operating within its borders, amounting to 541 (43.1%). This is followed by Indonesia with 165 (13.2%), then Singapore with 162 (12.9%), and Philippines with 125 (10%). Malaysia, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are home to 84(6.7%), 78(6.2%), 51(4.1%) and 27 (2.2%) organisations respectively while Bangladesh has the smallest number at 21 (1.7%).



Amongst the companies surveyed, 43.4% are concentrated in the Alternative Lending area, followed by Payments & Transfers (39.6%), E-Wallets (9.4%) and Digital-banking (7.7%).
From the year 2000 to 2022, the Alternative Lending sector experienced the most significant increase at 6700%, followed by Payments & Transfers - growing 3207%, E-Wallets - 2850% and Digital Banking - 1271%.

Commenting on the results, the analysts said: “The results show that the Philippines puts the most emphasis on these four fintech areas, which constitute 54.3% of all fintechs in this country. The rest of the distributing goes as follows: Sri Lanka - 41.5% (65), Vietnam - 37, 7% (207), Pakistan 24.2% (211), Indonesia 19.4% (850), Malaysia 18.3% (458), Bangladesh 15% (140), India 10.5% (5176). The lower the share, the higher the diversification by types of fintech businesses in the country and the competition between them.”

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