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Grab ups the ante in on-going battle with Gojek
Grab is in talks to merge OVO, an Indonesian digital payments firm, with an Ant Financial-backed local peer to build heft and power ahead of archrival Gojek. Read more…
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China’s cryptocurrency like Libra, across major payment platforms
China’s proposed new digital currency would bear some similarities to Facebook’s Libra coin and would be able to be used across major payment platforms. Read more…
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China leads the way in mobile money transfers – for now
Driven by a fast-growing social element P2P mobile money transfers will see enormous growth over the next five years. Read more…
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The future of payments – digital and cashless
Globally, digital payment methods are quickly replacing the faithful banknote and a cashless future will be inevitable. Read more…
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Facebook, Libra – freedom, justice and money
Now, Facebook has turned (properly) to payments and the service will be called Libra, but for Facebook it might just be too little too late, trust-wise. Read more…
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Payments: would you pay for goods with your car, or fridge?
New payments technology is seeping into many aspects of our lives. NFC divided the payments debate ignoring the convenience and focusing on speed. Read more…
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‘Alexa, find me a doctor’ and the wearables revolution revs up
The wearables market seems to be extremely buoyant and expanding in interesting ways. It now seems as if wearables will become ubiquitous, and soon. Read more…
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Carrier billing set to triple by 2024, unless they screw it up
One in five digital content sales will be done via carrier billing. Consumer spending using carrier billing will rise from $28 billion to around $90 billion in five years. Read more…
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Is Apple about to throttle rivals with a payments play?
Apple may come across as cool, trendy and really rather nice but in reality it is big and it is ruthless. Read more…
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Singtel expands VIA cross-border payments to Japan
The Singtel Group’s VIA, Asia’s first cross-border mobile payment alliance, has expanded its footprint to Japan Read more…