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Microsoft’s Your Phone app has been growing in popularity over the past several years. The app offers a link between your Windows 10 PC and your Android smartphone (requires a phone with Android 7 or newer), providing useful features for managing your phone.…
Banks in South-east Asia could miss out on as much as $5 billion, or 14.3 percent of their payments revenue by 2025, displaced by the growth of digital payments and competition from non-banks, according to a new report. As payments become more «instant,…
BigPay, an ASEAN-focused fintech company, has launched international remittance services enabling users to send money directly from Malaysia to bank accounts in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, with no hidden fees or extra charges. BigPay…
As many Apple iPhone users know, AirDrop is a feature that allows them to share photos, videos and documents with nearby Apple devices without requiring an internet connection. This is achieved using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. A WeChat post published…
PayPal has been doing pretty much everything in its power to keep the likes of Apple Pay at bay in the increasingly competitive online and mobile payment market, joining forces with Google on a number of mutually advantageous initiatives, vastly improving its…
South Korean fintech unicorn, Viva Republica, raised $64 million for its financial service platform Toss pushing the firm’s total value to $2.2 billion. The Seoul-based fintech has raised a total of $250 million, including $80 million in the December round,…
The cross-border B2B money transfer market is ripe for disruption, as new technologies and legislative changes redefine traditional banking practices across the globe, according to Juniper Research. Cross-border B2B transactions will exceed $218 trillion by…
Despite being allowed to charge on-net fees for automatic telling machine (ATM) transactions, some commercial banks have recently applied the exemption to on-net money withdrawal and account transfer to attract new customers and develop the retail banking…
Singapore-based money transfer provider InstaReM is introducing free money transfers exclusively for users in Hong Kong. InstaReM, a Money Services Operator licensee in Hong Kong, is running this campaign until end of April 2017. By offering interbank rates…
WorldRemit, an online service for overseas money transfers, is looking to expand into new markets and add services like direct payments for bills and school fees, its president said on Friday. The UK-based financial technology start-up, which has raised…
Indonesia will speed up negotiations on the Indonesia-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), aiming to have an agreement with the EU come into effect within two years. The two parties had discussed the implementation of the…
