A digital payments start-up that makes all its earnings in the Philippines is set to list on the Australian Securities Exchange next week, joining more than a dozen listed fintech companies hoping to be swept up in the momentum driving global tech stocks.

Peppermint Innovation has built an app used by 45,000 of the customers of three of the biggest banks in the Philippines and is also building a remittance platform in an attempt to create a Filipino version of M-Pesa, the mobile payments app that took Kenya by storm. w