Evaluating only Hamro Pay’s profile at its peak — without knowing the outcome — the model ranked Regulation as the #1 likely cause. That’s exactly how it died.
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Documented cause
Hamro Pay built a digital wallet platform in Nepal for utility payments, peer transfers, and merchant QR payments, targeting Nepal's large unbanked rural population and urban migrant workers sending remittances. The product gained 180,000 registered users. In 2020, Nepal Rastra Bank overhauled its Payment Service Provider regulations, requiring all PSP license holders to maintain significant minimum capital reserves and comply with strict KYC requirements. Hamro Pay lacked the capital to meet the new requirements and could not raise a compliance round in Nepal's limited early-stage investment ecosystem.
Lesson
“Raise compliance capital before regulatory overhauls occur — being caught undercapitalised during a PSP licensing reform is a company-ending event.”