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title: "Philippine conglomerate Ayala acquires another 8% stake in Mynt"
description: "Philippine conglomerate Ayala Corp has acquired an additional 8% stake in fintech firm Mynt for $393.07 million. Mynt, the parent company of GCash, is a joint venture between Ayala, Alibaba's Ant Grou"
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locale: "en"
url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/210513781.md"
published_at: "2024-08-02T00:07:36.000Z"
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# Philippine conglomerate Ayala acquires another 8% stake in Mynt

> Philippine conglomerate Ayala Corp has acquired an additional 8% stake in fintech firm Mynt for $393.07 million. Mynt, the parent company of GCash, is a joint venture between Ayala, Alibaba's Ant Group, and Globe Telecom. The investments have raised Mynt's valuation to $5 billion.

(Updates with details and background from paragraph 2 onwards)

Aug 2 (Reuters) - Ayala Corp (AC.PS) , one of the Philippines’ largest conglomerates, said on Friday it had acquired an additional 8% stake in startup Globe Fintech Innovations, popularly known as Mynt, for 22.9 billion pesos ($393.07 million).

Mynt, which is a mobile financial services firm and the parent company of fintech app GCash, is a joint venture between Alibaba’s (9988.HK) Ant Group (688688.SS) , Ayala and communications firm Globe Telecom (GLO.PS) .

Mynt received investments from Ayala and Japan’s biggest banking group Mitsubishi UFJ Financial (8306.T) , GCash said in a statement.

The investments from both parties lifted Mynt’s valuation to $5 billion, up from $2 billion as per its last funding round in 2021, according to the fintech app.

As of 2023, Mynt recorded 6.7 billion pesos of net income.

($1 = 58.2600 Philippine pesos)

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