Indonesia landed among the top 20 fastest-growing crypto markets worldwide in 2022, driven primarily by speculative trading. In fact, Indonesia’s trade ministry reported about 14 million crypto traders but only 9 million stock traders last year. However, it’s worth noting
In places like Southeast Asia, crypto carries considerable promise as a way to provide financial inclusion to millions of underbanked consumers. To help fulfill this promise, some platforms are placing a strong focus on simplicity. In a recent episode of
The regulatory picture for crypto and digital assets in Southeast Asia remains something of a patchwork. Lawmakers are forced to continuously play catch-up, with countries now reviewing or modifying their policies in light of the FTX implosion and other high-profile
Having started out as a peer-to-peer lending platform in Indonesia that connects borrowers with lenders, today KoinWorks can best be characterized as a financial super app. To date, it has facilitated more than Rp14 trillion (~US$922 million) in loans to
What are the biggest challenges facing Indonesian startup KoinWorks in delivering social impact via financial inclusion? How can providing Indonesia’s 64 million MSMEs access to working capital also help the archipelago’s consumers? These are a few of the topics touched
Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) form the backbone of the Indonesian economy. It’s been estimated that these often very small companies amount to 99% of all businesses in the nation while accounting for more than 61% of its GDP.
High-profile cautionary tech tales from FTX, Theranos, WeWork, and other misadventures are shining an international spotlight on what can happen when good corporate governance is not enforced in a startup. How can startups and investors in Southeast Asia avoid similar
A working group set up by the Singapore Venture Capital Association and the Singapore Academy of Law has published a new update to a model form stipulating market standard agreements for VC investments. But how do protections for VCs and
In markets like Indonesia, best governance practices are quite evident for corporates and institutions, but not so much for early and growth-stage startups. For example, the Indonesian Corporate Governance Roadmap, launched in 2014 by the OJK with support from the
What’s your guess as to the total number of small farmers in the world? While it is difficult to arrive at a specific number, there are currently about 450 to 500 million smallholder farmers, many of whom are locked into
