P2P

Retail Asia03/05/2021

Large capacity hard drives are virtually out of stock in Vietnam because of a cryptocurrency mining craze in China. Customers and market observers say local people have been buying large-capacity hard drives in bulk and reselling them to the Chinese amidst a new mining craze for the Chia cryptocurrency in China. People who need to […]

Retail Asia11/02/2021

This expansion to the startup’s fourth market comes after more than a year of working with Thai regulators and planning for market entry. Singapore-based Funding Societies, Southeast Asia’s largest SME digital financing platform, has rolled out its platform in Thailand, the company announced in a statement on Tuesday. The P2P lender noted Thailand’s large and SME-driven […]

Retail Asia20/04/2020

With OCBC enabling peer-to-peer (P2P) fund transfers on Google Pay, the city-state becomes the third globally to offer the service, after India and the United States. The integration means that OCBC customers can now transfer or receive payments directly from their bank accounts to or from anyone registered to PayNow using the Google Pay app, the bank announced […]

Retail Asia26/08/2019

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, and new funding joins prominent existing investors such Singapore’s GIC and Sequoia Capital. Viva Republic […]

Retail Asia16/04/2019

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Juniper Research is forecasting that total operator revenues from A2P (Application-to-Person) messaging services will reach $62 billion by 2023, up from $43 billion in 2019. This represents a growth of 42% over the next 4 years. The research firm also claimed that revenue growth will be driven by operator efforts in mitigating messaging fraud over […]

Retail Asia23/06/2017

Modalku, an Indonesia-based peer-to-peer lending fintech startup, announced this week it is now fully registered with the Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK). Founded in 2016, Modalku describes itself as an online marketplace for small businesses to acquire loans and for lenders to fund small business loans to earn returns. The company revealed: “Our technology-based approach enables borrowers […]

Retail Asia20/01/2017

Leading Myanmar retail bank rolling out cardless cash withdrawal and P2P payment services with advanced technology from Diebold Nixdorf. Co-Operative Bank Limited (CB Bank) in Myanmar has awarded Diebold Nixdorf an extensive contract for systems, software and services to expand its self-service cash offerings beyond the country’s main commercial hub Yangon. The bank will add 500 […]

Retail Asia05/06/2016

Online video piracy is alive and well in 2016, but the threat landscape has shifted from straight conditional access (CA) technology and P2P file-sharing to illegal OTT set-top-boxes (STBs) that connect users to sites that look like professional OTT service providers with fancy EPGs, but are in fact hosting stolen content. “So these new-age pirates […]

Tag: P2P

China cryptocurrency craze drives hard drive shortage in Vietnam

P2P Lender Funding Societies Launches in Thailand

Google Debuts P2P Fund Transfers in Singapore

PayPal-Backed Korean Fintech Raises $64 Million

Telcos to use AI to fight SMS fraud and drive A2P messaging revenue

Indonesian P2P Fintech Startup Modalku Becomes Fully Registered With the OJK

CB Bank in Myanmar rolls out cardless cash withdrawal and P2P payment services

Illegal OTT boxes are the new P2P piracy