Category : Payments

Southeast Asia Becomes Centre for Instant Cross-Border Payments Growth

Following in the footsteps of the European Union, ASEAN is moving towards having its very own Single European Payments Area (SEPA)-style payments network, making Southeast Asia a global focal point for cross-border real-time payments growth, accordin...

Google Pay Launches All-In-One P2P Payments Solution in Singapore

Google has launched its all-in-one peer-to-peer funds transfer service in Singapore in order to streamline transactions from different banks on one platform with via its PayNow feature. Customers of DBS PayLah!, OCBC Bank and Standard Chartered can l...

Visa Pushes for Greater Availability of Tap to Phone Payment Solutions in APAC

Visa is calling on the payments industry to accelerate the availability of Tap to Phone solutions in order to bring more micro and small businesses into the digital economy. Tap to Phone enables sellers to accept Visa contactless payments directly on...

CEO of xpate Is Confident That Simplicity and a Great UX Will Shape the Future of Payments

Handling online payments is an ongoing challenge for any entrepreneur or business. There are dozens of options to explore, yet the industry lacks a universal solution. Too Many Options An IT firm, edtech startup or other forms of business growing acr...

DBS, Fave and Singtel Partners to Offer More Cashback to Their Customers

Fave, a fintech platform providing QR payments to restaurants and retailers, has announced a collaboration with DBS Bank and Singtel Dash to offer Singaporeans “more secure digital payment options”. DBS PayLah! and Singtel Dash users can...

Bring Colour Back to the South East Asian Payments Landscape

For the global banking and finance industry, Southeast Asia (SEA) has established itself as a key region in terms of innovation and growth opportunities in real-time payments. Underlying this is the fact that SEA’s internet economy is projected to tr...

NETS Partners Singtel for Cross-Border Digital Payment Services

Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS) plans to accelerate the development and delivery of its digital cross-border payment services, leveraging Singtel’s ConnectPlus Managed Network and Amazon Web Services’ (AWS’) cloud computing platform. This col...

Philippines’ RCBC and DTI To Enable Digital Payments For Micro-Businesses

Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has partnered to create DiskarTech’s NegosyanTech programme to digitalise community-based microenterprises in every barangay nationwide through partnership and...

Grab Expands Suite of Financial Product to Include Micro-investment Platform

Grab Financial Group (GFG), the fintech arm of Grab today announced the launch of a suite of financial products. The three main products GFG is launching under their new strategy dubbed as ‘Thrive with Grab’ are a micro-investment platform named Auto...

Grab Expands Suite of Financial Product to Include Microinvestment Plaftorm

Steps to Go Cashless With UQPay as We Overcome COVID

As we embark on the second of the three-phased approach to resume economic activities safely, many businesses in Singapore are still expected to experience significant challenges due to the series of restrictive measures and health advisories impleme...

GrabPay Philippines Enables Instant Fund Transfers with InstaPay

GrabPay announced today the introduction of instant fund transfers in the Philippines within its e-wallet. This new feature is made possible thanks InstaPay, an initiative from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to enable payment interoperability. The...

Philippines’ Department of Agriculture Enlists PayMaya for Loan Disbursement

The Department of Agriculture’s has announced the use of PayMaya, a mobile wallet under the purview of PLDT, to disburse loans for their Kapital Access for Young Agripreneurs (KAYA) financing program through the “KAYA” cash card. The initiative was f...

Click to Pay: Mastercard Expands Passwordless Digital Checkout in Singapore

As Singapore shifts rapidly to digital commerce, Mastercard introduces Click to Pay a payments solution with an online checkout that that eliminates passwords, protects data with smart security and makes transactions a breeze with just a few clicks....

Where Does The Future of Payments Lie For South East Asia?

The payment space in South East Asia is a hotbed for innovation with many players vying for a piece of the action, we’re seeing many exciting things happening in this space from interoperable QR payments to central bank-backed digital currencie...