Atome: Expanding Beyond BNPL in Southeast Asia
Can a BNPL player outmaneuver super-app giants like Grab and Shopee while navigating tightening regulatory thresholds?
In this episode, we explore pvtIQ's latest deep dive on Atome Financial, the Singapore-based fintech that pivoted beyond online checkout into a broader consumer credit ecosystem.
We examine:
• How Atome expanded beyond BNPL into digital cash lending (Kredit Pintar) and issued over 3M PayLater Anywhere cards in the Philippines.
• Using non-traditional signals to underwrite thin-file consumers in real time.
• How securing over $1B in institutional debt allowed Atome to absorb…
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