Banking Beyond Travel
The PEAK Singapore|May 2022
For Caecilia Chu, co-founder & CEO of YouTrip, the crisis provided the opportunity to launch a new corporate card to bolster her company's neobanking ambitions.
Mary Lim
Banking Beyond Travel

With international travel and tourism hit hard by Covid-19 safety restrictions and its variants, it would have been understandable for Caecilia Chu to describe the circumstances as challenging for YouTrip.

In 2018, it launched as South-east Asia's first and leading in-app multi-currency mobile wallet for frequent travellers. Through the app, which features a prepaid Mastercard, users can pay in more than 150 currencies at the best exchange rates, and without having to pay any transaction or cross-border fees.

Available in Singapore and Thailand, it has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times and processed over $800 million in spending

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