Singapore’s OCBC bank has significantly advanced its position in the regional payments sector by incorporating eight major Southeast Asian digital wallets into its banking app. This move has established the most inclusive bank-to-wallet ecosystem in the…
Google has been improving its Google Wallet app, making it a convenient hub for Android users to digitally store items such as credit and debit cards, passports, tickets, and transit passes. Despite these features, Google Wallet may not be as frequently used…
Citi has hired a former partner from Ernst & Young to lead the upcoming launch of a new digital payment solution in the region. James Lloyd joins the treasury and trade solutions (TTS) unit as its Asia Pacific head of Spring by Citi – upcoming digital…
In the next three years, Asia will see more than fifty new digital banks that will completely change the financial services landscape. That’s just the beginning, GFT’s Christopher Ortiz says. The region will also see broader adoption of blockchain technology…
Hong Kong is the primary city in Asia to formally be associated by Cointext, an administration which empowers anybody to send cash to mobile numbers or Bitcoin Cash addresses without Internet, applications, or records. Notwithstanding inhabitants of the…
FamilyMart Taiwan has launched an e-wallet known as “My FamiPay”. The application, launched in collaboration with Cathay United Bank (CUB) and Soft Space, integrates debit/prepaid/credit cards and other various stored value cards to facilitate in-store…