e-wallet

Retail Asia31/07/2020

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 latter’s customers. SmartPay earlier this month signed a deal with Viet Capital Bank to allow […]

Retail Asia01/07/2020

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 may be concerned about cash flow, Singtel said in a statement on Monday announcing […]

Retail Asia30/12/2019

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 on Thursday. The acquisition, which is below 50 percent, wasn’t publicly reported because of fears over anti-China sentiment in […]

Retail Asia14/11/2019

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 taking its services to customers outside Singapore by launching in Thailand with a partnership with Kasikornbank (KBank), the […]

Retail Asia10/10/2019

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 roll out new functionalities and improve the user experience, the […]

Retail Asia26/10/2018

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 in Singapore to use the service from November 1. WeChat Pay […]

Retail Asia19/09/2018

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 of Vietnam. Others provide services such as financial switching, electronic clearing and payment gateway. […]

Retail Asia21/03/2018

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 different ecosystems through an interoperable platform. It will begin with the mobile wallets of the […]

Retail Asia04/02/2017

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 will leverage the strengths of both parties to launch various innovative fintech services such as […]

Retail Asia22/11/2016

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 Pie, Apple Pie” across the store when he handed her his iPhone in […]

Retail Asia29/08/2016

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 mobile e-wallet providers. Wong also called on e-wallet operators to win customers’ trust by respecting their […]

Retail Asia28/01/2016

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 customers’ payment details. Registered users can pay for their online shopping at several merchants that […]

Tag: e-wallet

E-wallets seek to grab opportunity as pandemic keeps people shopping online

Singtel Adds Insurance Savings to E-Wallet

Ant Financial Invests in Vietnam E-Wallet

Singapore E-Wallet Inks Partnership With Thai Bank

DBS to Expand E-Wallet Functionalities

WeChat Pay to be ready in 7-Eleven, Guardian Singapore

Make or break time for Vietnamese e-wallets

Singtel to link mobile wallets across Asia

Thai e-wallet platform provider joins hands with Myanmar retailer.

iPay you now: Singapore’s millennials demanding mobile wallets

HK privacy commissioner weighs in on e-wallets

Online retail Visa offers new payment method to deal with abandoned carts