Lito Villanueva
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Lito Villanueva
Lito Villanueva is the Philippines ’ leading and award-winning thought leader on digital transformation and inclusive digital finance . He has over 20 years of experience in banking , telecommunications , payments , development finance , and financial technology . He merited over 50 global and regional awards including being cited as one of the Top 100 FinTech Leaders in Asia , the first and only Filipino , thus far , for scaling digital innovations and financial inclusion . He was also named “ Mr . FinTech of the Philippines ” by BizNewsAsia magazine . He is presently the Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation and Inclusion Officer for RCBC and concurrently as Chief Digital Transformation Advisor for the Yuchengco Group of Companies . He had stint with Economist Intelligence Unit , Visa , Smart Communications , IFC of the World Bank Group , Voyager Innovations covering PayMaya ( formerly Smart Money ) and FINTQnologies as its managing director . He created and scaled Lendr , the Philippines ’ largest digital loans marketplace disbursing in excess of US $ 1 billion in less than five years .
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He is also the founding chairman of FinTech Alliance . ph and president of the BSP Governor Nestor A . Espenilla Jr . Institute for Growth towards National Inclusion , Transformation , and Empowerment ( IGNITE ). He released various publications including the award-winning three-volume Inclusive Digital Finance Report and the Uncharted Beyond : The Taxonomy of FinTech in the Philippines .
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