Tapping Into Developing Markets: New Business Call to Action Member Tapp Commerce Oy Brings Financial Inclusion to Southeast Asia PRESS RELEASE New York/Turku, June 1, 2016 /3BL Media/ – Finland-based e-commerce network Tapp Commerce Oy has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA), with a commitment to integrate 500,000+ micro-entrepreneurs into its value chain and provide 10… Read more »
Financial Inclusion
Billions of people in emerging markets lack access to booming online stores. We provide an innovative peer-2-peer commerce exchange network, which allows people without bank accounts or credit cards to locate mobile point of sales, in order to pay for goods & services via mobile in a super cool way.
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The Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation, Tekes, evaluates the most promising Finnish startup companies for The Young Innovative Companies programme (YIC) and awards Tapp Commerce up to 1.25 million euros. Tekes recognises Tapp Commerce as a company with potential for hyper-growth and rapid international expansion. Tapp Commerce is seen as an optimal fit for YIC… Read more »
PRESS RELEASE 2 May 2017 New Appointments in Southeast Asia Tapp has appointed Tapp Philippines’ Country Manager Mr. Mika Tarvainen as General Manager of Sourcing and Operations in Southeast Asia. Sales and Marketing Director Mr. Juan Miguel Joven will take the role of Country Manager Philippines as of May 1st, 2017. The new role of General… Read more »
On the 17th of November, Tapp Commerce was recognized by IBM’s Mobile Business Insights as a Mobile World Changer for democratizing commerce in emerging markets. On the Mobile Business Insights website it is stated: “The innovators on this list are being recognized for mobile innovations that improve, change and, in some cases, save lives. These organizations… Read more »
Roughly half of the world’s population are financial nomads; those who aren’t part of the institutional finance system. In my previous blog, I wrote down three main barriers to financial inclusion, which were: cost, culture and distance. In this post, I sum three ways on how financial technology (fintech) companies can alleviate financial exclusion by removing,… Read more »
Press release 28.10.2016 Turku, Finland Tapp Commerce opens Tapp Market for small businesses Tapp Commerce today announced the launch of, a new Android app, Tapp Market Shopkeeper. Tapp Market Shopkeeper app opens the Tapp platform for micro and small businesses to sell their products online on Tapp Market. Tapp Market Shopkeeper will be available as… Read more »
Did you know that approximately half of the world’s population live with limited or no access to formal financial services? Until very recently, these financial nomads living at the bottom of the economic pyramid haven’t had a chance to climb up the ladder of financial inclusion. But the situation is changing rapidly. With the help… Read more »
I joined Tapp Commerce seven months ago as a Senior UX Designer. In the beginning I was working with a group of smaller Tapp Market application features and updates. While doing that, I had an opportunity to process user insights, competitor solutions, latest e-commerce trends and our roadmap direction. Eventually my goal was to redesign… Read more »
One morning I was browsing my Facebook feed when a picture caught my eye. It was a picture of fluffy dice dangling from a car ceiling with a pretty Indonesian countryside setting on the background. That was not it, however: there were two of our company value pins batched onto the fluffy dice. Hell Yeah,… Read more »
Meet Chimot, new Tapp agent from Indonesia I had a privilege to meet a one-week-old Tapp agent, Tri Widianto, known as nickname Chimot, in Indonesia. My Jakartan Tapp colleagues had arranged the agent visit to me and to my marketing colleagues from Chubb. Chimot has his small corner shop at the South Jakarta area, which… Read more »
The majority of people living at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BoP) are unable to open formal bank accounts, obtain credit or buy insurance. Without access to the banking sector, it’s difficult to even pay for basic services. For example, many individuals need to travel hours to city centers for paying their bills. This… Read more »