The total value of mobile payment transactions in China is expected to grow at an average annual growth rate of 142% over the next three years to reach 13,776.5 trillion yuan ($2,011.17 trillion) by 2020, according to Research and Markets. According to a new…
The Asia Pacific region is leading the world in mobile payment adoption, with over half of connected consumers in the region using their mobiles to pay for goods or services at point of sale via apps. This is among the key findings of a survey of more than…
Ant Financial Services Group has deployed technology from Singapore-based V-Key to augment mobile payment security. V-Key will provide a virtual software solution called V-OS for Ant Financial to secure transactions on e-Commerce platform AliExpress, Ant…
A top down regulatory push toward cashless societies will stimulate exponential growth in the mobile payment market in Asia-Pacific (excluding China and India), which will surge from $71.92 billion to $271.47 billion by 2021, research from Frost & Sullivan…
India’s YES BANK has deployed Gemalto technology to secure mobile payment transactions for its customers under India’s recently implemented Unified Payments Interface (UPI). YES BANK, India’s fifth largest private sector bank, has adopted Gemalto’s SafeNet…
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