Tyme Group, the major shareholder of the Philippines’ fastest growing bank GoTyme Bank, has made it onto TIME’s 2025 list of the 100 Most Influential Companies in the World. The list honors organizations that are making an extraordinary global impact through bold innovation and transformative scale.
This year’s list places Tyme Group among a prestigious group of past honorees such as Apple, Microsoft, Nubank, OpenAI, Moderna, Patagonia, and TikTok, highlighting Tyme’s emergence as a retail banking leader with a mission to serve entire national populations — not just the wealthy or urban elite.
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“We are grateful for this recognition,” said Coen Jonker, CEO and Co-Founder of Tyme Group. “At Tyme, we believe that great retail banking should be available to everyone — not just a privileged few. Our ambition is to become one of the top retail banks in every market we serve, by combining intuitive technology with real-world reach. This acknowledgment from TIME recognizes that our model of inclusive, population-scale digital banking can be both commercially powerful and socially transformative.”
Tyme Group currently serves over 17 million customers across its growing portfolio of countries:
- GoTyme Bank in the Philippines continues to scale rapidly, following the acquisition of salary lender SAVii, with now over 6.5 million customers.
- TymeBank in South Africa has become one of the fastest-growing retail banks on the continent, with over 11 million customers.
- Indonesia marks Tyme’s next major growth market, with the Group having launched its merchant lending platform this year and now actively planning to enter the market with a retail bank.
- Hong Kong is Tyme’s newest footprint with the receipt of a moneylender’s license and a new partnership for merchant lending will be announced this month.
The company reached unicorn status in late 2024 following a US$250 million Series D capital raise led by Latin America’s Nubank. Tyme is now backed by a global coalition of investors including the Gokongwei Group, Nubank, Tencent, British International Investment, African Rainbow Capital (ARC), Apis, M & G Catalyst, among other leading impact investors.
“Being named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies is a powerful affirmation of our shared vision at Tyme Group and GoTyme Bank,” said Nate Clarke, CEO of GoTyme Bank. “This recognition goes beyond innovations in banking. It speaks of our mission of unlocking the potential of every individual by making banking secure, simple and beautifully designed for all communities we serve. It inspires us even more as we work toward becoming the most loved and the largest retail bank in the Philippines.”
