While it’s still early days for the fintech major Grab Financial Group (GFG), it’s chief Reuben Lai has led it through a series of milestones last year — winning a digibank licence in Singapore, raising a $300 million Series A round, and negotiating the complexities of the region’s largest and most coveted market, Indonesia.
The “groundwork” of building the basic infrastructure has already been laid, said Lai at DealStreetAsia’s Asia PE-VC Summit 2021, during a fireside chat “Moving beyond payments to grow as a formidable fintech business in SE Asia.”
