MANILA, Philippines, Aug. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Philippines' Mynt, Inc., the parent company of country's number one finance super app GCash, has been named among the World's Top Fintech Companies 2026 by CNBC (Consumer News and Business Channel), a leading global business media outlet, and Statista, a German data platform. Listed under the Payments category, Mynt stands out as the only Philippine fintech company to make it to this prestigious international ranking.
This recognition underscores Mynt's position as a homegrown success story, proving that Philippine innovation can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the world's best. As the driving force behind GCash, the country's #1 finance super app and most preferred payment option, Mynt continues to set a global benchmark for financial inclusion, empowering millions of Filipinos with secure, accessible, and transformative digital financial services.
"We are honored to represent the Philippines on the global fintech stage. This recognition reflects the strength of Filipino innovation and the trust of millions who use GCash every day." said Mynt, Inc. president and CEO Martha Sazon.
Mynt's inclusion in CNBC's list highlights how a Philippine company has achieved global relevance by solving local challenges with world‑class solutions. From enabling everyday payments to opening access to savings, credit, investments, and insurance, Mynt has proven that technology can break barriers and bring financial services to those once excluded. Its success story demonstrates resilience, scale, and impact—qualities that earned it a place among the world's top fintech leaders.
By being the sole Philippine fintech on CNBC's list, Mynt becomes a symbol of national pride and stands among the best fintech innovators worldwide—a testament to the country's growing role in the global fintech landscape. It joins other global fintech giants like Visa, Ant Group (Alipay), PayPal, and Mastercard as well as big names in the region including GoTo and Grab Financial Holdings.
To access the full list of the World's Top Fintech Companies, visit: https://www.cnbc.com/worlds-top-fintech-companies-2026/. 500 companies were selected via a rating system established by Statista. Companies' key performance indicators were considered, alongside desk research conducted by Statista and CNBC, with the latter also providing editorial and compliance input.
For more information, visit https://www.gcash.com.
About Mynt
Mynt is the first and only duacorn in the Philippines. It's a leader in mobile financial services focused on accelerating financial inclusion through mobile money, financial services, and technology. Mynt operates two fintech companies: GXI, the mobile wallet operator of GCash — the #1 Finance App in the Philippines, and FUSE Lending, a tech-based lending company that gives Filipinos access to microloans and business loans.
Mynt, through its fintech operations, is a staunch supporter of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly UN SDGs 5, 8, 10, and 13, which focus on safety & security, financial inclusion, diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, respectively.
For more information, please contact:
Gilda Maquilan
VP and Head of Corporate Communications
GCash
Email Address: corpcomm@gcash.com | Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gcashofficial
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GCash Parent Mynt Cited as Sole Philippine Firm in World's Top Fintech Companies List
Industrial AI platform will connect primary emissions data to operating entities and trading desks in oil, gas and metals across Trafigura's global portfolio
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Context Labs B.V. ("Context Labs"), the industrial AI infrastructure company, today announced three connected transactions with Trafigura PTE Ltd ('Trafigura'): the acquisition of Agora (Europe) Limited and its Kinertic carbon-intelligence platform, developed by Trafigura; a strategic equity investment by Trafigura in Context Labs; and a multi-year master services and platform license agreement under which Trafigura will deploy the combined platform across its commodity trading desks, including oil, gas, and metals.
Kinertic provides commodity producers, traders and buyers with a carbon intelligence platform integrated into their existing systems, connected with trade capture systems to map flows, aggregate portfolios, and generate regulatory and customer reports. By bringing Kinertic into the Context Labs AI solution family and connecting it to its trusted data infrastructure, traders will be able to see price, volume, logistics, and trusted carbon metrics in a single environment, directly in the tools they already use. With the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in its definitive phase, default emissions values translate directly into cost on every in-scope cargo. As the EU Methane Regulation moves from reporting to enforcement, methane intensity becomes a market-access prerequisite for gas, LNG, and oil flowing into the EU. Verified, trade-specific carbon data is now a procurement and trading requirement, not a reporting afterthought.
As part of the transaction:
- Context Labs has acquired Agora (Europe) Limited, the Trafigura subsidiary that owns and operates the Kinertic platform.
- Trafigura has separately made a strategic equity investment in Context Labs to support continued platform development and integration of the Kinertic capabilities.
- Context Labs and Trafigura have entered into a multi-year platform license agreement with Trafigura to license the platform across multiple commodity trading desks.
Context Labs provides the digital trust infrastructure to reliably monitor and calculate carbon-intensity data for commodities; from production through transport to end-market. Context Labs makes industrial AI and carbon programs trusted, by turning raw inputs into governed, audit-ready outputs that create measurable enterprise value in compliance and commercial markets.
"The opportunity isn't in generating more data, it's in bringing context to the data our customers already have," said Dan Harple, Founder and CEO of Context Labs. "Where others see disconnected datasets, we see the foundation for a new intelligence layer. By bringing Kinertic together with Context Labs AI and our asset-grade data infrastructure, we turn fragmented inputs into connected, verifiable knowledge, so every output is traceable to source, reproducible in process, and credible to inform pricing, manage risk, and guide capital allocation."
"Carbon is now a core dimension of market risk and opportunity," said Hannah Hauman, Global Head of Carbon Trading at Trafigura. "Our traders need the same level of accuracy on emissions that they have on price and logistics. Trafigura has been privileged to support Kinertic's evolution into an industry-leading carbon reporting and analytics platform since inception. We are confident that Context Labs will build on that strong foundation and drive the platform's continued growth."
"This combination is about moving carbon from a reporting exercise into a core market signal," said Pelle Sommansson, CEO and Co-founder of Kinertic. "Together with Context Labs, we are enabling a new level of transparency, where carbon intensity becomes a trusted, measurable attribute in how energy is valued and traded."
For commodity producers, traders, financiers and buyers, the combined Context Labs–Kinertic offering delivers:
- Carbon-informed trading: portfolio analytics, trade-flow builders, and reports that quantify carbon and methane intensity across the commodity value chain, enabling differentiated pricing, structured deals, and improved hedging.
- Industrial AI at scale: an AI-ready, provenance-rich data layer that connects IoT, operational, third-party, and certification data into a single emissions and attributes layer.
- Regulatory and reporting readiness: standardized, auditable outputs for EU Methane Regulation, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), and other relevant disclosure regimes, including end-to-end product carbon footprint reporting.
About Context Labs BV
Context Labs is an enterprise data infrastructure platform that transforms complex data into continuously proven information. Its AI-enabled software helps industrial organizations turn fragmented operational and emissions data into trusted, auditable, and decision-ready intelligence for carbon management, compliance, and commercial use. The company was formed out of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) research and is led by a team that has been instrumental in the at-scale growth of the Internet through prior companies. Context Labs is located in Amsterdam, Cambridge, Mass., and Houston. Learn more at www.contextlabs.com
About Trafigura
Trafigura provides critical resources to the world. Founded over 30 years ago and owned by its employees, the Group is at the heart of global supply, using its deep understanding of commodity markets to make supply chains more efficient, secure and sustainable.
Working across a global network, the Group deploys infrastructure, logistics, financing and market expertise to move energy and commodities from where they are produced to where they are needed. By connecting producers and consumers, we bring resilience and trust to complex supply chains.
The business supplies the energy and commodities the world needs today, including oil and petroleum products, metals and minerals, gas and power, while investing in lower-carbon solutions for the future.
The Trafigura Group also comprises industrial assets and operating businesses including multi-metals producer Nyrstar, fuel storage and distribution company Puma Energy, fuel supplier and distributor Greenergy, and the Impala Terminals joint venture. The Group employs approximately 14,500 people, of which more than 1,400 are shareholders, and operates in over 150 countries.
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Context Labs Enters Multi-Year Agreement with Trafigura and Acquires Kinertic to Power Carbon-Informed Commodities Trading
