Ovanti Enters Prediction Markets With Exclusive Yuno.trade Deal

Ovanti (ASX: OVT) says it has entered an exclusive four-year partnership with Yuno.trade that expands the fintech group beyond BNPL and digital payments into the infrastructure layer of regulated prediction markets.

Under the agreement, Ovanti is to act as Yuno.trade’s exclusive global payment processor and embedded technology infrastructure partner.

Yuno.trade will gain access to Ovanti’s Labuan Digital Commercial Banking licence and infrastructure to support a planned regulated prediction market platform in Southeast Asia and Central Asia.

Prediction markets are platforms where users trade on the outcome of future events, with the operator needing payments, settlement, ledgering, authentication, and compliance systems to move money and manage user activity.

In this case, Ovanti said it is supplying that infrastructure layer through iSentric and Datamorph, rather than taking on the role of exchange operator.

Ovanti said the model is intended to be transaction-linked, tied to activity such as deposits, withdrawals, wallet funding, payment routing, and settlement flows.

The agreement has an initial term of four years, with an option to renew for a further four years subject to performance milestones.

Where This Fits

To understand why this matters, it helps to start with what Ovanti already does.

The company’s business spans mobile banking, digital payments, messaging, and a broader BNPL and Super App strategy.

A substantial portion of revenue is generated in Malaysia, where it serves institutional customers including banks, insurers, telcos and corporates.

The deal sits alongside Ovanti’s earlier push to broaden its platform reach.

In April, the company raised A$5.27 million before costs to support its global BNPL platform and Super App strategy, including AI integration, merchant expansion and working capital.

Prospectus materials lodged in May also showed the company seeking shareholder approval for up to 520,339,654 new options, with potential proceeds only arising if those options are later exercised.

That context matters because the Yuno.trade partnership opens another strategic lane while the company is still funding and building out its wider platform ambitions.

How the Deal Works

Ovanti said its role in the partnership goes well beyond simple payment acceptance.

The company is to provide transaction orchestration, funds-flow infrastructure, settlement, ledgering, reconciliation, reporting, authentication, risk controls, fraud monitoring, API connectivity, and operational automation.

That amounts to the operational plumbing of a regulated market platform.

It also suggests Ovanti is trying to position itself as the infrastructure provider sitting behind end-user activity, where revenue, if generated, would come from transaction processing and associated service layers.

The company expects Yuno.trade to use its Labuan Digital Commercial Banking licence and infrastructure to launch a regulated platform across Southeast Asia and Central Asia. The filing did not spell out whether additional country-level approvals, local licences or market-specific permissions may be required beyond that framework.

Ovanti also pointed to regional banking relationships, including Standard Chartered, as part of the infrastructure proposition.

That language frames the offer as a bank-integrated and regulated payments setup, rather than a standalone consumer app operating outside traditional financial rails.

What Needs Proving

The filing does not provide a launch date, so the practical milestone now is evidence that Yuno.trade can move from agreement to implementation using Ovanti’s payments and banking infrastructure.

Regulation is likely to be central, with Ovanti’s own prospectus materials already flagging exposure to increasing scrutiny across fintech, payments, AML, and privacy rules in multiple jurisdictions.

Prediction markets add another layer of sensitivity, particularly when a platform is being positioned across Southeast Asia and Central Asia, where rules can differ sharply market by market.

Broader company-specific risks remain in place as well including customer concentration in Malaysia, technology and cyber risk, foreign exchange exposure and ongoing regulatory complexity.

New Rail, Same Execution Test

Ovanti’s Yuno.trade partnership adds a new strategic lane by putting its banking licence and payments infrastructure behind a regulated prediction market push in Southeast Asia and Central Asia.

The opportunity described by the company is scalable and transaction-linked, but the filing leaves major questions unanswered on timing, economics, funding and regulatory steps, so the story now shifts from concept to execution.

What to watch from here is fairly concrete: any follow-up on implementation timing, whether Yuno.trade secures the approvals needed for launch in target markets, signs of first live transaction activity, and whether Ovanti provides greater detail on economics, cost responsibilities and funding runway.