Voyager Innovations, through its digital financial services arm PayMaya Philippines, won seven Quills at the recently held 17th Philippine Quill Awards Night.
Voyager was conferred three Excellence Awards and four Merit Awards this year by the prestigious award-giving body that recognizes strategic and excellent programs, campaigns, and materials in business communications.
It received an Excellence Award for its Voyager Innovations Investment Round campaign which affirmed its leadership in the digital financial services arena and helped elevate the whole Philippine technology industry. In November 2018, Voyager successfully concluded its first investment round, raising the largest funding to date for any technology company in the country. Voyager now counts global private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co. (KKR), tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd., World Bank’s IFC, and the IFC Emerging Asia Fund as investors together with telecommunications leader PLDT.
Smart Padala by PayMaya, the country’s leading domestic remittance network, received an Excellence Award for its Milyun-Milyong Tiwala campaign, which aims to empower its wide network of agent partners to become digital hubs in their communities.
Voyager was also given the Excellence Award for its Inclusive Digital Finance Report thought leadership publication series. These data-driven reports which highlight addressable points on accelerating financial inclusion in the Philippines through digital technologies have been consistently cited as resource materials in the financial services industry.
PayMaya, the digital financial services arm of Voyager, won four Merit Awards for the following campaigns: #PayMayaPaMore: Giving Filipinos 10 million reasons to pay cashless using PayMaya; Accelerating digital payments adoption through PayMaya’s cashless communities campaign; PayMaya and OXFAM’s iAFFORD card for building economic resilience in the face of disasters through innovative digital financial services; and PayMaya Cares: Revolutionizing customer care in the digital era.
“These recognitions inspire us to continue with our mission – that of enabling every Filipino with digital financial services. These are validations of our homegrown innovations and purpose-driven teams. We will continue to develop programs and campaigns in support of business initiatives to accelerate digital financial services adoption in the country,” said Nick Bautista Wilwayco, PayMaya Head of Public Affairs and Strategic Communications.
The Quill Awards is an annual recognition program organized by the International Association of Business Communications. It is one of the most awaited event in the Public Relations industry as entries are rigorously screened by seasoned PR practitioners in the country.
