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Businesses are pushing cashless payment services amid demand triggered by social distancing measures imposed to curb Covid-19. MoMo announced on Tuesday that it plans to tie up with ride-hailing company Be Group to offer its popular e-wallet services to the…
Singtel is adding financial services to its mobile wallet Dash, in the form of offer an insurance savings solution underwritten by Etiqa. The Dash EasyEarn savings insurance is designed for investors who want to start saving regularly for their future but who…
Ant is expected to have significant influence and provide technical expertise to the e-wallet, created locally by a small start-up. Chinese digital finance giant Ant Financial has acquired a «sizeable» stake in Vietnamese e-wallet eMonkey, «Reuters» reported…
The Singapore-based firm has made its first foray into an overseas market, and is promising Thai travelers affordable options to pay with the competitive exchange rates when abroad. YouTrip, a multi-currency mobile wallet designed with travelers in mind, is…
To mark the e-wallet’s fifth anniversary, DBS announced new functionalities and merchant deals and said it hopes to grow its user base. BS Bank wants to grow its PayLah e-wallet user base from 1.6 million users currently to 3.5 million users by 2023, and will…
Customers of 7-Eleven, Cold Storage and Guardian stores in Singapore will soon be able to pay for purchases using WeChat Pay. The owner of the two retail chains, Dairy Farm Group, has worked with NETS to enable visitors from China and Chinese nationals based…
Big moves by some players are exerting severe pressure on many e-wallet service providers in Vietnam. Twenty seven payment service providers had been licensed in Vietnam as of last March, with 20 of them offering digital wallets, according to the State Bank…
Singtel expects the service to launch mid-2018 in 20,000 points in Singapore and Thailand. Travellers with Singtel’s mobile wallets could soon continue to use their home wallet app to make payments when overseas. Singtel will link its mobile wallets across…
A joint venture agreement between them was signed during a Myanmar-Thailand cooperation mission presided over by Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand Dr Somkid Jatusripitak in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday. The joint venture…
Millennials demand faster and easier ways to pay. It seemed awkward at first, as J.D Power Director Gordon Shields recalls it, having to pay using his phone at a local supermarket in Singapore. He tells how the checkout assistant confusingly shouted “Apple…
Privacy commissioner for personal data Stephen Kai-yi Wong has urged Hong Kong residents to vigilantly keep control of their personal data in wake of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s (HKMA) decision to grant Stored Value Facilities (SVF) licensesto five…
Visa has launched a new payment service that simplifies the payment process for online shoppers in a bid to address the high percentage of abandoned online shopping carts caused by inconvenient payment methods. The service, Visa Checkout, captures and saves…
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