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MoMo

Can Vietnam's dominant e-wallet become the country's financial super-app by distributing white-labeled bank, credit, insurance, and investment products to 30M+ users?

Founded2007
HQHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Total raised$400M+
Latest roundSeries E, 2021
Valuation~$2B (2021, unicorn status)
IndustryFintech / Neobank
The story

Founded 2007 as a mobile-money operator, MoMo grew into Vietnam's dominant e-wallet by tightly partnering with the State Bank of Vietnam regulatory regime and traditional banks rather than seeking its own banking license. The 2021 Series D/E round capitalized a super-app pivot — layering ticketing, mutual funds, insurance, lending, and BNPL on top of payments. Most regulated products (consumer credit, BNPL, life/health insurance, mutual funds) are delivered via white-label partnerships (EVF, MCredit, VietCredit, VCBNeo, Chubb Life, SSI) with MoMo acting as the customer-facing distribution and data layer.

Last 12 months
2026-05
2025-11
2025-09
2025-09
2025-12
Product timeline
2007
M_Service founded as mobile payments company in Vietnam.· founding
2010
MoMo brand launched for mobile money transfer services.· banking
2016
MoMo e-wallet app launches; secures Standard Chartered/Goldman backing.· banking
2021
Series D + Series E ($300M+ combined) — positioned as Vietnam's super-app candidate.· funding
2024
Rolled out biometric authentication compliance for SBV Circular 17/18/40 (effective 01/01/2025).· compliance
2025
iProov biometric ID verification partnership announced.· compliance
2025
MoMoCare Health Insurance+ launched with Chubb Life Vietnam.· insurance
2025
15-year anniversary; positioned as AI-first FinTech serving 30M+ users.· milestone
2026
Strategic partnership with VCBNeo (Vietcombank digital bank) to launch Postpaid Wallet (BNPL/credit, up to 20M VND).· lending
Regulated entities
2
regulatory licences held by MoMo
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
7 layers disclosed in MoMo’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
MoMo Payment Gateway (self-operated)MoMo e-wallet (self-operated)
Banking / BaaS
in the full report
Lending
in the full report
Payroll
in the full report
Insurance
in the full report
FX & payouts
in the full report
Investing
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
9 more providers across 6 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.