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The recent iOS 26 update has unveiled a host of minor enhancements, including a significant upgrade to the Apple Wallet. The digital wallet can now store detailed information about all your credit and debit cards, enhancing the user experience and…
Banks in Hong Kong are stepping up their game with exciting new offerings like mobile virtual cards and dual-currency payment options. As a reflection of this growing competitiveness, the credit and charge card payments market is projected to expand by 6% to…
With the fervor of the holiday shopping season fast approaching, retailers across Asia are gearing up for a bustling fourth quarter. Among them, Lotte Shopping, South Korea’s retail giant, is strategizing ways to capture consumer attention and boost sales. In…
25 million device users were targeted by a certain type of malware attack in 2023 and 2024. Infostealer malware does exactly what its name would suggest it does and grabs important information such as bank card numbers, passwords, and other sensitive data.…
Mercedes has been dominating Vietnam’s luxury car market in recent years, but that could start to change this year as BMW lowers prices. “We have always considered BMW a major competitor in most markets globally, but things are different in Vietnam,” said CEO…
Following the integration of ID cards and driver’s licenses into Apple Wallet, it looks that the next thing to find its way into Apple Wallet will be workplace authorization cards. Customers and employees who visit the 7 World Trade Center will now be able to…
Crypto-linked spending on Visa cards topped $1 billion despite continued doubts about cryptocurrencies as a means of payment. Credit card giant Visa achieved the feat in just the first half of 2021, according to a statement, underlining more steps to make…
Self-exiled Hong Kong dissident Ted Hui, who was recently spotlighted over frozen accounts at HSBC, has faced even more pressure from the British lender which allegedly canceled credit cards and «unlawfully embezzled» his funds without explanation. Ted Hui…
Tonik, the first pure-play digital bank in Southeast Asia, will debut in the Philippines in 2020. Tonik Digital Bank has received a banking license from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the Philippines’ monetary authority, the bank announced in a statement on its…
You might think that a set of playing cards is a fairly cheap item that most people pick up in a convenience store or in an airport shop planning to use them to while away the time. While this is true of most sets, there’s a growing trend for retailers to…
Our clients are highly engaged digitally. We have seen a 33 percent quarter-on-quarter growth in new mobile active clients, as our clients look to do most of their banking activities digitally, from application to activation to service requests and payments,»…
With the establishment of the national payment gateway Gerbang Pembayaran Nasional (GPN), banks need to distribute new debit cards that work using the gateway to help their customers reduce inter-bank transaction costs. The debit cards with GPN’s red eagle…
The New South Wales Parliament is introducing legislation, creating a three year minimum expiry date on gift cards. This reform will go some ways towards solving the problem of unredeemed gift cards. But there are other issues besides short expiry dates.…
Mastercard has detailed plans to expand its QR-based payment programs, starting this month. The company will broaden its solutions to offer QR codes that can be scanned by either consumers or merchants under a common set of global specifications. Mastercard…
Japan’s JCB Co has partnered with Kasikornbank with an eye on increasing the number of its credit card holders in Thailand by 1.4 million by 2020 to 2 million. “Thailand has potential to be (our) second most important market after Japan and we believe in Thai…
E-commerce businesses may have to accept card payments as a way to offering more options of payment when shopping online, an official from the Ministry of Industry and Trade said. Võ Văn Quyền, director of the ministry’s Domestic Market Department, was quoted…
