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Building a Future that is Accessible to All:
Oriente
The Largest and Most Innovative Financial Services Company
A
sia is a fast-growing
economy with different
levels of people. Each of
them has a different pay scale
or a business that generates a
different amount of ROI. Keeping
this in mind, Oriente was
established in 2017 by the co-
founders - Hubert Tai, Geoffrey
Prentice, and Lawrence Chu of
revolutionary internet companies
Skype and LU.com who saw an
opportunity to build a better,
more equitable financial system
for underserved consumers in
Asia’s fastest-growing economies.
The Company’s
Products
Bespoke to each market and
designed locally to bring
greater access and equality
to millions of financially
underserved consumers and
MSMEs - empowering them to
do more. It is creating a new
infrastructure using next-gen
technology: purpose-built to
serve consumers wherever they
are, offline and online, through
a range of lending products and
services. Initially, these will
include powerful app-based
financing solutions.
The Difference in
Operations
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Oriente firmly believes that
credit should be used as a tool
for progress and opportunity, not
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as a weapon against it. It brings
together highly successful teams
with a wealth of experience
working in emerging markets.
Leveraging cutting-edge
technology and data-science
combined with its strategic
partnerships and their resources
it creates bespoke-to-market
financial solutions that put
more people in control of their
financial lives.
The company is building the
largest and most innovative
financial services company in
Asia’s fastest-growing economies.
Its mobile-first solutions are
designed to unlock financial
freedom and opportunity for
communities that have been left
behind by the limits of existing
financial systems. By making
access to credit affordable, easy
and timely, everyone benefits
especially when it has the ability
to empower and transform lives.
The Firm Brings
Together Great Minds,
Visionary Partners,
and Next-Gen
Technology
Oriente’s way of developing
meaningful financial solutions
designed to democratize access
to credit people who are highly
talented and excited to take risks.
It brings together the best global
talent in technology (AI, the
blockchain, data-science), finance
(asset management, banking,
credit, private equity), operations
(retail, sales, support), and
alternative credit (micro-finance,
consumer lending).
Its products are built using
proprietary, next-generation
technology to put more power in
its customer’s hands – unlocking
their potential and enabling
greater economic freedom and
opportunity.
The Partners
The company’s partners are
forefront and share our vision.
Being local and collaborative
is at the core of its quest to
deliver the most complete suite
of smart financial services
tailored specifically for people in
emerging Asia’s fastest growing
economies.
Today, the lack of affordable
credit, even for the salaried
middle-class, is a trillion-dollar
problem. It is the result of a
broken financial system that has
undervalued millions of people.
Hence now the team of digital
natives with deep financial
expertise and success in building
and scaling innovative companies
are at full pace. With this, the
company will surely move up
in the market due to its unique
approach.