Dmoney in APAC’s Top 10 Most Convenient Wallets list

Dmoney Bangladesh Ltd, a FinTech company behind the Dmoney digital wallet, announced Thursday that APAC Business Headlines Magazine has named it among the “10 Most Convenient Wallets to watch in 2019”- highlighting the role Dmoney is playing to shift towards a Digital Bangladesh.

Dmoney was co-founded by Sonia Bashir Kabir, and Aref Bashir, both Silicon Valley returnees and the chairman of Dmoney is Anjan Chowdhury, also a renowned entrepreneur of the country.

Dmoney is the only digital wallet from South Asia to enter the list, said a media release.

APAC Business Headlines is a magazine that brings together CIOs, CXOs, and other technology decisions makers to speak on the evolution of technology and industry trends.

This issue reviews the leaders in the Fin Tech Industry that are doing business in the APAC (Asia-Pacific) region.

The authors shed light on how these wallets are poised to evolve into fin tech companies with their domain-specific knowledge, sound marketing strategies, and innovative products.

Among the listed companies, Dmoney has been named as one of the Leaders in the Fin Tech space.

Sonia Bashir Kabir, who till recently headed up Microsoft’s Bangladesh office, is Vice Chairman and co-founder of Dmoney.

Besides winning the prestigious "Founders Award" in 2016 given by Bill Gates to 10 handpicked Microsoft employees every year among its 100,000 employees, Sonia was also recognized as one of the 10 Sustainable Development Pioneers globally in 2017 by the United Nations Global Compact.

She said digital inclusion (with payments as a common denominator) is a key to moving the status of a country from Least Developed Country (LDC) to the middle economy.

“We began our journey with the challenge of financial inclusion and realised that inclusion is a myopic view of the world,” she said.

Aref, the Managing Director and co-founder of Dmoney, remarked, “Bangladesh is a large market that is underserved. Digital Lifestyle and Financial Services is the need of the hour. Dmoney aims to rise to the challenge and fulfill this demand. It will build, partner and be the enabler and is committed to resolving the cash to digital transformative barriers.”