{"id":19105,"date":"2021-11-30T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/11\/30\/youtrip-a-neobank-in-southeast-asia-raises-us30-million-to-accelerate-growth-in-b2c-and-b2b-space\/"},"modified":"2021-11-30T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T03:45:00","slug":"youtrip-a-neobank-in-southeast-asia-raises-us30-million-to-accelerate-growth-in-b2c-and-b2b-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/11\/30\/youtrip-a-neobank-in-southeast-asia-raises-us30-million-to-accelerate-growth-in-b2c-and-b2b-space\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTrip, a neobank in Southeast Asia, raises US$30 million to accelerate growth in B2C and B2B space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\">\n<ul>\n<li><i>YouTrip&#8217;s transaction volume&#13;<br \/>\nhas rebounded to pre-COVID levels, driven by strong traction in cross-border&#13;<br \/>\ne-commerce transactions and return of travel spending. Exponential growth is&#13;<br \/>\nexpected in upcoming months following the opening of more Vaccinated Travel&#13;<br \/>\nLanes in Singapore and progressive return of SEA travel.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>The latest funding will be used to scale the&#13;<br \/>\nneobank&#8217;s product offerings, including&#13;<br \/>\nventuring into the B2B payments space, and accelerate its expansion into wider&#13;<br \/>\nSoutheast Asia.\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>YouTrip&#8217;s dual-growth engine&#13;<br \/>\nin B2B and B2C payments enables it to be pandemic-resilient, and well-primed&#13;<br \/>\nfor high growth.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a030&#13;<br \/>\nNovember 2021 &#8211;<b> <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.you.co\/sg\/\">YouTrip<\/a>, Singapore&#8217;s leading neobank&#13;<br \/>\noffering a multi-currency wallet, announced today that it has raised US$30&#13;<br \/>\nmillion in its latest Series A round. The round, driven by returning investors&#13;<br \/>\nfrom major Asian family offices and prominent financial technology investors,&#13;<br \/>\nwill solidify the fintech firm&#8217;s position as the leading neobank in Southeast&#13;<br \/>\nAsia offering B2B and B2C multi-currency&#13;<br \/>\npayments. With this, the company has now raised over US$60 million funding in&#13;<br \/>\ntotal since launch.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new capital will supercharge the company&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\ntechnological capabilities to bolster its suite of payment products, in&#13;<br \/>\nparticular entering the adjacent B2B payments space, as well as accelerating&#13;<br \/>\nits entrance into the wider Southeast Asia. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Caecilia Chu, YouTrip&#8217;s CEO and Co-founder said, &#8220;We&#13;<br \/>\nhave transformed tremendously as a company since our last funding round<a name=\"_ftnref1\" title=\"\"><sup><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a>. From a&#13;<br \/>\nmobile travel wallet, we have grown to establish a strong foothold in new&#13;<br \/>\nterritories such as overseas online spending to meet the extraordinary shifts&#13;<br \/>\nin consumer behaviours. We believe there is untapped potential in cross-border&#13;<br \/>\npayments, and our market-leading position in this space puts us in a good place&#13;<br \/>\nto serve more of our users&#8217; payment needs &#8211; from travellers, to online&#13;<br \/>\nshoppers, and now, businesses.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a company, this latest round also gives us the&#13;<br \/>\nresources to strengthen our multiple growth engines to stay resilient and&#13;<br \/>\nwell-primed for expansion into new vistas,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Card transaction exceeds US$800&#13;<br \/>\nmillion, exponential growth expected with travel return<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>YouTrip has maintained its position as the &#8216;go-to&#8217;&#13;<br \/>\ncard for consumers&#8217; multi-currency spending. To date, it has processed over US$800 million card spend globally, with&#13;<br \/>\nalmost 20 million transactions and over 1.5 million app downloads.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>YouTrip&#8217;s transaction volume has also rebounded to&#13;<br \/>\npre-COVID levels, driven by strong traction in cross-border e-commerce&#13;<br \/>\ntransactions and progressive return of travel spending. With the opening of&#13;<br \/>\nmore Vaccinated Travel Lanes (VTL) in Singapore, transaction volume is forecast&#13;<br \/>\nto accelerate rapidly especially given upcoming holiday seasons and revenge&#13;<br \/>\ntravel.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>B2B payments a promising growth&#13;<br \/>\nengine<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To advance its growth, YouTrip has set its sights on&#13;<br \/>\nthe B2B payments ecosystem. The industry, which is expected to be worth&#13;<br \/>\nUS$150 trillion by 2022<a name=\"_ftnref2\" title=\"\"><sup><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a>, is ripe&#13;<br \/>\nwith potential, with SMEs showing a strong willingness to adopt digital banking&#13;<br \/>\nservices, specifically for cross-border payments<a name=\"_ftnref3\" title=\"\"><sup><sup>[3]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a>.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Catering to businesses with a global footprint,&#13;<br \/>\nYouTrip&#8217;s new corporate credit card, <b>YouBiz<\/b>,&#13;<br \/>\npromises the best value and best-in-class multi-currency payment experience.&#13;<br \/>\nThe product offers higher spending limits while transacting at the best&#13;<br \/>\nexchange rates in 150+ currencies, and credit terms offered to selected&#13;<br \/>\nbusiness account users. Companies will also be able to issue corporate cards to&#13;<br \/>\nemployees, with all expenses streamlined into one platform. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Mak, YouTrip&#8217;s Co-founder said, &#8220;We&#8217;re very&#13;<br \/>\nexcited about the B2B payments opportunity. It is a segment with a deep market,&#13;<br \/>\nas companies increasingly operate in a distributed and borderless manner and we&#13;<br \/>\nexpect their cross-border payment needs to go up. By incorporating our&#13;<br \/>\ncompany&#8217;s core strengths of offering the best exchange rates and an extremely&#13;<br \/>\neasy to use interface into YouBiz, we help businesses save time and cost, so&#13;<br \/>\nthat they can focus their energy and efforts in finding growth.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Registration for interest in the product&#8217;s beta launch&#13;<br \/>\nhas received more than 1,000 sign-ups to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>YouBiz will be rolled out in Singapore in the first&#13;<br \/>\nquarter of 2022, and with plans to bring it to five other Southeast Asia&#13;<br \/>\ncountries in the next twelve months. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Riding the tailwinds of ecommerce&#13;<br \/>\ngrowth and travel resurgence<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, YouTrip is optimistic about the headroom for&#13;<br \/>\ngrowth in consumer&#8217;s multi-currency payments, driven by the rapid rebound of&#13;<br \/>\nleisure travel, and the sustained popularity of e-commerce. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.you.co\/sg\/youtrip-perks\/\">YouTrip Perks<\/a> &#8211; the company&#8217;s rewards&#13;<br \/>\nplatform offering cashbacks and deals from top merchants such as Taobao, Amazon&#13;<br \/>\nand Singapore Airlines &#8211; has recorded a 150% increase in transactions since its&#13;<br \/>\nlaunch in September. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For a more seamless payment experience, YouTrip will&#13;<br \/>\nbe refreshing its app with new features such as a virtual card, an interactive&#13;<br \/>\nexchange rates dashboard, and the ability to hold more popular currencies in&#13;<br \/>\ntheir wallet. This will be launched in early 2022. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the travel front, with more VTLs opening and as&#13;<br \/>\nSingaporeans steadily take flight, YouTrip has also launched its <b>VTL Holiday Away campaign<\/b> today to&#13;<br \/>\nbring more value to their overseas trips. From today till 31 December, YouTrip&#13;<br \/>\nusers will get a chance to receive cashback of up to $100 when they pay using&#13;<br \/>\nYouTrip for overseas spending, reinforcing its proposition as the best overseas&#13;<br \/>\npayment method in the upcoming travel season. A grand prize of an&#13;<br \/>\nall-expenses-paid VTL trip worth up to $5,000 will also be awarded to one&#13;<br \/>\nselected user. For more information on the VTL Holiday Away campaign, please&#13;<br \/>\nvisit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.you.co\/sg\/blog\/vtl-holiday-giveaway\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\"\/>\n<div id=\"ftn1\">\n<p><a name=\"_ftn1\" title=\"\"><sup><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> YouTrip raised its US$25.5 million Pre Series&#13;<br \/>\nA funding in 2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-11-30\/107474\/youtrip-a-neobank-in-southeast-asia-raises-us30-million-to-accelerate-growth-in-b2c-and-b2b-space\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTrip&#8217;s transaction volume&#13; has rebounded to pre-COVID levels, driven by strong traction in cross-border&#13; e-commerce transactions and return of travel spending. Exponential growth is&#13; expected in upcoming months following the opening of more Vaccinated Travel&#13; Lanes in Singapore and progressive return of SEA travel. The latest funding will be used to scale the&#13; neobank&#8217;s product &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}