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Decentro Deepens Presence in Southeast Asia with DigiAlly, Launches Industry-First Real-Time Business Data For Credit

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Introduces real-time financial insights, in partnership with DigiAlly, to power more innovative SME underwriting, drive more efficient cross-border trade, and broaden business credit access across ASEAN.

BENGALURU, India and SINGAPORE, April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Decentro, India’s leading API banking and financial infrastructure platform, announced today that it is deepening its presence in Southeast Asia by launching its advanced business credit and underwriting solution. Powered by a partnership with Singapore-headquartered DigiAlly, this initiative brings real-time business financial intelligence to the ASEAN region—an industry-first capability enabling more innovative lending, risk assessment, and cross-border financial operations.

As Southeast Asia’s digital economy accelerates, access to credit and intelligent underwriting has become vital for both SMEs and fintechs. The Asian Development Bank estimates the SME credit gap in Asia to be over $2.1 trillion, with ASEAN nations representing a significant portion of the total. Yet, despite rapid fintech innovation, many financial institutions still rely on outdated verification and underwriting models, exposing them to fraud and slowing credit access. With 1 in 5 fraud cases now involving synthetic identities (Experian, 2023), the urgency for real-time business intelligence is apparent. Without modern, data-driven infrastructure, institutions risk falling behind—and missing out on the next wave of fintech-led growth.

Building on its robust consumer credit APIs and SaaS infrastructure, Decentro’s expanded stack now includes a comprehensive business credit infrastructure, supporting SME financing, invoice factoring, and cross-border trade. Through a single integration, fintech platforms and financial institutions across the ASEAN region can now access business financial reports, trade data, and verification insights—all in real time and also via a single, comprehensive PDF report. 

Commenting on the milestone, Rohit Taneja, Co-founder & CEO of Decentro, said, “At Decentro, we’ve always believed that the future of fintech is borderless, intelligent, and deeply integrated. Our expansion into Southeast Asia with a strong partner like DigiAlly allows us to power the next generation of business underwriting and credit access—making real-time KYB and financial data accessible at scale. Whether a large unit in Jakarta or a cross-border lender in Manila, the infrastructure to assess risk and unlock growth is now just an API away.”

With this move, Decentro introduces a unified business financial intelligence suite—an industry first in the ASEAN region—bringing together financial reports, trade history, and verification data into a single, downloadable PDF. The offering is already enabling:

Insurance companies to underwrite SME risk fasterLenders and banks to assess business creditworthiness more accuratelyNeobanks to verify & offer a credit line on the fly Payment service providers (PSPs) to verify businesses across borders with greater confidence

And here are the countries that are covered for this solution – 

Singapore IndiaVietnam South Korea Australia PhilippinesIndonesia 

DigiAlly, known for its deep credit and financial data intelligence solutions across Southeast Asia, will be a key data partner in this expansion. Its platform offers granular credit and financial analytics across company types, empowering lenders, PSPs, insurers, and trade platforms with faster, more accurate decision-making. This partnership will enhance Decentro’s product suite to meet the evolving demands of emerging markets and fast-scaling enterprises.

“Our collaboration with Decentro brings together the best of infrastructure and intelligence. With our credit and trade data combined with Decentro’s platform-first approach, we’re making real-time, AI-powered business insights available to financial players across Southeast Asia. This is a step forward for financial inclusion, risk transparency, and smart credit enablement,” Shrikant Patil, CEO of DigiAlly, said.

With this expansion, Decentro continues to simplify financial workflows across the globe, helping businesses of all sizes tap into local and international opportunities. The company’s entry into Southeast Asia follows its strong momentum in India, which recorded over 150% year-on-year growth in FY24 – 25. Building on this foundation, Decentro aims to deepen its presence across ASEAN, enable deep credit underwriting for both global and regional platforms, and power the next wave of fintech infrastructure across borders.

About Decentro

Founded in 2020, Decentro is a full-stack banking and fintech infrastructure platform that builds and empowers companies across India and Asia. With its products Flow (Payments & Money flow) and Fabric (KYC, Data & Intelligence), having 10+ modules across banking and payments, Decentro helps businesses remove over 90% of the friction and reduce the timeline they face when it comes to the flow of money and financial data. 

Decentro powers over 1200+ companies, including CRED, MakeMyTrip, Meesho, MoneyTap, AU small finance bank, and many more, helping them with a robust credit & banking infrastructure. Decentro was founded by Rohit Taneja and Pratik Daudkhane and is backed by investors like Y-Combinator, Rapyd Ventures, and Soma Capital, among many others.

For more information, please visit https://decentro.tech/global. 

About DigiAlly

DigiAlly is a Singapore-based fintech pioneering a unique trust-based Embedded Finance platform for fostering “Frictionless Credit.” We help Financial Institutions make faster, cheaper, and better decisions during their lending journey with SMEs. They create an AI-powered trust score that represents a holistic health check of SMEs, proactively covering operational, market, and credit risks. DigiAlly assesses the overall portfolio of financial institutions across the value chain and assists them in optimising collections through continuous portfolio monitoring.

 

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LEAP Group Relaunches HumanView, a Growth Intelligence System Built to Explain Why Customers Behave the Way They Do

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Reimagined from the ground up, HumanView pairs statistical modeling with expert analysts to turn millions of real-world customer signals into business decisions

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LEAP Group today announced the relaunch of HumanView, its growth intelligence service. The new version has been rebuilt from the ground up and now has a dedicated home at leapgroupnetwork.com/humanview.

HumanView analyzes what customers say and do across social platforms, e-commerce sites, review platforms, search behavior and user-generated content, including signals from Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, Meta, Amazon and Walmart+ that general AI tools cannot always access. Because the data reflects unprompted, real-world behavior, it avoids the response bias built into surveys and focus groups.

The service works in three layers. HumanView captures signals at scale, decodes millions of records through validated statistical models such as regression, correlation and clustering, and then relies on experienced analysts to interpret the patterns. Clients receive clear, human-validated insights instead of another dashboard.

“Machines find the patterns. Humans find the point,” said Alan Gilleo, CEO at LEAP Group. “The first version of HumanView showed us how much customers reveal when nobody is asking them questions. This version is built to explain why they act the way they do, and to put those answers in front of everyone making decisions, from product to service to marketing.”

HumanView focuses on three areas:

Growth Intelligence: customer motivations and how people perceive a brand and its competitors

Market and Category Intelligence: product pain points, service friction, unmet needs and competitive gaps

Audience Intelligence: new segments, positioning opportunities and gaps in the market

Every model is designed and validated by data scientists and benchmarked before it informs a recommendation.

To learn more about HumanView, visit leapgroupnetwork.com/humanview.

About LEAP Group
LEAP Group is a boutique marketing agency holding company with offices in Louisville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Chicago. Guided by the belief that brands should “Market Less. Matter More.,” LEAP gives clients access to specialized experts across its entire network. Learn more at leapgroupnetwork.com.

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STEPHEN A. SMITH ADDRESSES WHITE HOUSE DINNER ATTENDANCE, REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO HBCUs AND PROTECTING CORPORATE INVESTMENT IN BLACK EDUCATION

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NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Stephen A. Smith, media mogul, New York Times bestselling author, and proud 1991 graduate of Winston-Salem State University, is addressing the public discussion surrounding his decision to attend a White House dinner with President Donald Trump, emphasizing his commitment to the long-term financial stability of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

For Smith, the decision was rooted in a commitment to institutions that have educated generations of Black leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, and public servants.

“I will always advocate for HBCUs and the students whose futures depend on them,” Smith said. “My reason for attending the White House dinner was to discuss the challenges these institutions face in securing long-term funding and to make the case that corporate America must continue to invest in them.”

Smith acknowledged federal support through the FUTURE Act while expressing concern that political tensions surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) could discourage private companies from supporting HBCUs. He maintains that these institutions deserve sustained corporate partnerships, philanthropic contributions, and public investment.

“If we truly believe in free-market capitalism, businesses should be able to support educational institutions and charitable causes without fear of criticism or repercussions,” Smith said. “HBCUs have made extraordinary contributions to this country. They deserve sustained public and private investment.”

Ashley Christopher, Esq., Founder and CEO of the HBCU Week Foundation, recognized Smith’s advocacy and decision to engage with the administration.

“Stephen A. Smith has been a powerful advocate for HBCUs, using his platform and influence to shine a national spotlight on our institutions,” expressed Christopher, “His continued support of HBCU Week helps advance our mission of connecting students with life-changing educational opportunities, and we are proud to have him as our ambassador.”

Since Smith became an HBCU Week Ambassador in 2019, the initiative has facilitated more than 15,000 on-the-spot college acceptances and raised and awarded more than $150 million in scholarships, according to the HBCU Week Foundation.

As public discussion continues, Smith is emphasizing the importance of ensuring HBCUs have the resources and partnerships needed to educate future generations and expand opportunities for students.

CLICK HERE to watch Smith’s full response to his White House visit.

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Advantex Announces Completion of Financing and Extension of Maturity Date of Previously Issued Debentures

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TORONTO, Oct. 23, 2026 /CNW/ — Advantex Marketing International Inc. (CSE: ADX) (“Advantex”), a leader in the merchant cash advance and loyalty marketing products for merchants, today announced the completion of a $250,000 secured debt financing. Advantex issued a $250,000 non-convertible debenture which bears an interest rate at 12% per annum and matures December 15, 2027. The proceeds raised from this issuance of the Debenture will be used for working capital purposes.

Advantex has also extended the maturity of its existing $700,000 in 12% secured debentures from October 10, 2026 to December 15, 2027.

About Advantex Marketing International Inc.

Advantex provides working capital to merchants. Advantex also provides specialized marketing programs that enable members of Aeroplan to earn Aeroplan points at participating merchants.

Advantex shares trade on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the symbol ADX. For more information go to Advantex’s profile on www.sedar.com

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This news release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable securities laws relating to the future business and operations of Advantex. Actual results and developments may differ materially from those contemplated by these statements. The business and operations of Advantex described herein is dependent on a number of factors and is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ material include, but are not limited to, changes in Advantex’s economic and competitive conditions including but not limited to the industry sectors in which Advantex operates.

The statements in this news release are made of the date of this release. Forward-looking statements are made based on management’s beliefs, estimates and opinions on the date the statements are made and Advantex undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as required by applicable law.

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