Indonesian consumer-fintech group founded in 2016 by Chinese founders William Li (CEO) and Gordon Hu (CTO); its predecessor Silvrr began in Hong Kong in 2014 providing cross-border remittances for domestic workers. Business spans instalment consumer credit, wealth management and digital banking. The company states that all business operations rely on algorithms and AI, covering account transfers, KYC, risk assessment, anti-fraud and anti-money laundering, with R&D investment exceeding USD 28 million a year (CEO statement, KrASIA, 2 July 2020) — this AI/algorithm attribution rests solely on the founder's own account and has no third-party corroboration. In 2019 Akulaku bought an 8.9% stake in Indonesian commercial bank PT Bank Yudha Bhakti (BBYB) from Gozco Capital for Rp 158 billion, becoming a minority shareholder and committing to staged investment totalling up to Rp 500 billion; the bank was renamed PT Bank Neo Commerce Tbk in 2020. The founder's claimed Ping An Insurance background is removed from the description because its only source is dead (see notes).
Deployment Intelligence
Sourced records of Chinese AI deployments across the Global South and the Middle East
Each record carries country, segment, entry mode, local partner and verbatim scale wording, with a public source link wherever one exists. Check the original source before citing it in a business case, due-diligence answer or board briefing.
- deployment records
- 135
- company groups
- 54
- host countries
- 30
- AI segments
- 14
- landed
- 84
- with public source links
- 135
How to read these numbers: A purposive, publicly sourced case library, not a probability sample: counts describe the library, not market share. Monetary figures mix investment, revenue and user metrics — treat them as magnitude markers and defer to the verbatim description and source link.
Source: platform database (market_deployments).
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