Grab: How an Uber killer became a powerful Asian super-app
By Karishma Vaswani
image copyrightGetty Images
When Microsoft's Bill Gates said in 1994 that "banking is necessary, banks are not", financiers and analysts alike dismissed the claims as the wild musings of an over-imaginative techie.
Fast forward a few decades and that vision is fast becoming reality.
Grab is one of the most dominant super apps in Asia, offering rides, food delivery and now, financial services.
That includes loans, insurance, payments and investments - all accessed through a mobile phone app.
Launched in 2012 as a ride-hailing app like Uber, Grab has since expanded broadly. In 2018, it pushed Uber out of South East Asia.