Cards & Payments

OCBC, Ant Int’t to deliver embedded financial services to Indonesian SMEs

They believe that it will benefit thousands of small businesses.
2 days ago

SP Payment Service buys 13.8% of Nomupay’s shares for $40m

They aim to process client businesses’ payments in Asia and globally.
2 days ago

Companies seek real-time liquidity management to avert cash-flow crisis

There is increased corporate demand for liquidity and risk coverage, says HSBC.
4 days ago

Non-traditional providers reshape B2B payments landscape

By 2030, non-traditional providers could handle 75% of online consumer payments.
4 days ago

Visa launches AI-powered commerce initiative

It is working with Ant Int’l, Grab, and Tencent to enable an AI-powered checkout experience.
4 days ago

Indonesian and French central banks ink MOU on central banking cooperation

They will hold policy dialogues, joint studies or research, and data and information exchange.

APAC card payments markets to grow 4.3% to $24.7t in 2025

South Asia and SEA countries are skipping cards for mobile wallets, however.

KakaoPay Corp’s profits may more than double market estimates by 2027

CGS International expects KKP Securities to turn profitable in the current year.

Australia’s digital wallet market to surpass $130b in 2025

Increasing use of QR and NFCC payments are supporting this growth.

Less than half of Aussie firms adopting real-time payments: survey

About 2 in 3 believe that finance tech providers will shoulder the responsibility of assistance.

China and Indonesia expand scope of bilateral transaction cooperation

They will establish a framework to promote bilateral transactions in local currencies.

Japan’s JCB partners with PayXpert to expand card acceptance in Europe, UK

Card acceptance on POS terminals will be enabled at no additional cost.

Vietnam launches co-badged card with Mastercard and six banks

The card can be used in 650,000 points locally and 150 million points globally.

Citi Services launches PayTo initiator for institutional clients

The bank’s clients can initiate account-to-account payments from the service.