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A pilgrimage now comes on a 24-month plan: Ant International's Bettr lands in Malaysia
Bettr, the embedded-finance arm of Singapore's Ant International, will fund Umrah packages over 12 to 24 months inside Muslim Pro, an app with more than 190 million downloads, with Shariah compliance routed through SEDANIA's AS-SIDQ.
Positive-sum angle: Pilgrimage saving has run on informal cooperatives for generations. A licensed instalment product puts that cash flow on the record, and a record is what every later loan is built from.