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Anthony Tan controls Grab on votes, not shares. He just spent US$1.49 billion buying Atome.
Tan is due to keep selling down the little Grab stock he holds directly before September 2027, on the same pre-set trading plan that took him from 400,000 shares to 28,498 in one afternoon in July, because votes, not shares, are what keep him in the chair, and the US$1.49 billion for Atome came from Grab’s account, not his.
The instalment button on 30,000 checkouts changes hands: Grab buys 60% of Atome for US$1.5 billion
Grab will pay US$1.5 billion cash for 60% of Atome Financial, the pay-in-instalments checkout used by more than 30,000 brands in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. Its loan book stands near US$1 billion.
The superapp wants the credit book: Grab in talks for control of Atome at US$2B
Bloomberg reports the discussions; no deal is agreed. Atome sits inside Advance Intelligence Group, backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Warburg Pincus, and booked US$470 million of revenue in 2025.
Manila's BNPL rails get a peso credit line: Atome draws $81M from Asia United Bank for its 3M-user card
Atome Philippines secured a 5-billion-peso ($81M) wholesale facility from Asia United Bank to expand its PayLater Anywhere Card, which serves over 3 million users.