“Can OVO, as Grab's Indonesian wallet arm, defend and expand share in a QRIS-commoditized e-money market by becoming the embedded payment rail for Indonesian platforms?”
Founded by Lippo Group in 2017 as an e-money wallet to compete with GoPay and Dana in Indonesia's exploding digital payments market. Became a unicorn in 2019 on the back of Grab/Tokopedia integration deals, and Grab eventually consolidated ownership to ~90%. Now operates as a full Bank Indonesia-licensed payment service provider (Category 1) — running its own acquiring rails for merchants, SNAP Open API for partners, and direct-debit/QRIS infrastructure rather than relying on third-party BaaS.
OVO discloses PT Visionet Internasional (in-house) as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
OVO does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through PT Visionet Internasional (in-house).
OVO processes payments through OVO (self-operated acquirer), QRIS (self-operated), OVO Cash (self-operated) and OVO Points (self-operated).
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in OVO's stack: Payments / PSP (OVO (self-operated acquirer), QRIS (self-operated), OVO Cash (self-operated) and OVO Points (self-operated)); Banking / BaaS (PT Visionet Internasional (in-house)).
OVO was founded by Lippo Group and is founded in 2017, headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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