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Pillow Gave Up On Regulators’ Rigidity To Consider Business Cessation In Ghana & Nigeria

The West African crypto market bids pillow farewell on preparations to shutdown

Emeka Eni by Emeka Eni
June 22, 2023
in African, Cryptocurrency
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Pillow reported hanging its boots to focus on its crypto-focused FinTech solution cessation in Africa’s Western axis such as Nigeria and Ghana digital market that hosted the Singapore hailed start-up company’s operations for less than a year. Pillow users received a priority heads-up that prompt users’ attention to observe the crypto-focused FinTech solutions cessation which denotes that users will no longer be able to save, spend, or invest digital assets per discontinued Pillow wallet.

However, this report is weird coming from the Singaporean start-up company that survived the significant crash the crypto market experienced earlier this year that affected the likes of FTX and stylishly rubbed off on the Silicon Valley Bank and other juggernaut crypto investors. The crypto/FinTech service provider reported its operation cessation is an impact of regulation and rigid policies that hinders Pillow’s growth and indulgence in the crypto market.

It’s a no-brainer that the Singaporean FinTech start-up company branded moniker has impacted the crypto vendor’s existence that stuck as an early-stage start-up that stayed softer than a Pillow rather than face regulatory system rigidity across its existing markets to experience toughened growth. Regardless of the impressive amassed users based in Ghana and Nigeria and their holdings in digital assets via the Pillow financial infrastructure that leverages uses indulgence with the crypto market — these users are prompted to be shirked and ditched without remorse.

The company notified its 75,000+ users across 60 countries via an in-app message, urging withdrawals before key deadlines: bank withdrawals end July 7, 2023, and crypto withdrawals by July 31, 2023, after which the app will be removed from app stores .

Founders Arindam Roy, Rajath KM, and Kartik Mishra have remained otherwise silent, but the closure brings to an end Pillow’s mission to help emerging-market users “save, spend, and invest in cryptocurrency” as a hedge against inflation.

By pulling out of Nigeria and Ghana, Pillow joins a growing list of fintechs grappling with ambiguous or shifting regulations—underscoring how regulatory uncertainty can swiftly derail promising startups in Africa’s dynamic digital-finance arena.

Pillow joins the list of start-ups to discontinue business operations and exit Africa.

The Pillow crypto start-up hailed from Asia and accomplished expanding its operations towards existing in sixty countries across the world, per their respective market response to commerce which clarifies West Africa’s commercial status to impact paced revenue. It is worth noting that the Singaporean FinTech company’s crypto infrastructure cessation is effective on Pillow’s entire operations across the world.

Without further ado, Pillow users in general received the in-app memo about the schemed business shutdown scheduled to be official when July runs out of dates. According to the in-app memo that prompts users to withdraw their digital assets and tokenized fiat currencies and other in-app assets holdings before the deadline on July 31.

 

The in-app memo is drafted to prompt users about the severity of Pillow’s crypto market activity cessation that will reflect on deleting memories of its prior existence by removing the Pillow app from every app store marketplace including Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App World after the count down to the scheduled deadline elapses.

This report on Pillow’s FinTech cessation preparation denotes that the Singaporean start-up company failed to manage its affairs to sync with the regulatory affairs in West Africa and every other marketplace. Still, Pillow’s commitment to serving its users has reportedly drafted an ideal procedure to disburse users’ digital assets in holdings without congesting its FinTech infrastructure per a bank run-related effect. This explains the in-app memo that prompts users about corporate ops cessation.

For context, here’s a breakdown of Pillow’s systemic users’ digital assets disbursement that made arrangements for the FinTech infrastructure to suspend bank withdrawals on July 7. While the last day of July is reserved for the FinTech start-up to completely shut down its crypto network and throw away the key.

Still, the Singaporeans that developed Pillow are yet to issue a press statement about closing shop rather than consider a merger, acquisition, sale, or play finesse to attract a counterpart hostile takeover to preserve its custom leverage to the crypto market to come back to business as a rejuvenated brand. Pillow users deserve to know the impact of liquidating a $21 million net valued crypto start-up backed by an adequate pool of equity investments.

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