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Next to Singapore, Malaysia is one of the largest e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, having rapidly grown in recent years. With the pandemic challenging local markets all over the globe, e-commerce has only gained in popularity, its growth accelerating even further. In this article, we’re looking at: the factors that contribute to e-commerce growth in Malaysia […]

The recent months have sped up certain processes in digital and mobile payments across the world. With their individual societal and cultural characteristics, economic situation, and growth history, there’s no uniform way countries have reacted to the so-called new normal after the pandemic hit. In this article, we’re taking a closer look at the Nordics: […]

Indonesia has long been seen as one of the fastest-growing mobile commerce markets in the world. But the country’s domestic market presents its own, unique challenges both for merchants and online payment providers.In this article, we’re looking at: the current e-commerce payment market and how it’s evolving the main challenges for merchants and online payment […]

A combination of government financial incentives and COVID-19 lockdown restrictions are encouraging more Malaysians to forgo cash in favour of contactless payments, including the use of smartphone embedded electronic wallets (eWallets) to fund online and physical in-store purchases. Some eWallet providers have seen payment volumes almost double this year. GrabPay, for example, highlighted a 1.7x […]

In the third part of our series of blogs summarising the recent Mobile World Live webinar on streamlined payment channels and managed payment services, we look at the role specialist payment platform providers can play in helping telcos navigate increasingly complex financial services regulation to open up new revenue streams in different regions of the […]

Open banking regulations introduced last December have made it easier for fintechs in South Korea to compete with established financial service providers around digital banking – and a single easy to use smartphone app is playing a central role. The new rules look set to drive further adoption of mobile payments among a population that […]