Asia Payments Research

Jun

WeChat receives warning from Thailand Central Bank, signaling a possible foreign markets dilemma

Over the past few years, Alipay, WeChat, and other mobile financial and non-financial platforms have become ubiquitous in China. This ubiquity has led to a fiercely competitive market, so increasingly these companies have begun to look overseas, expanding into foreign markets including Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Although they are…

Feb

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Samsung Pay extends its global presence to allow South Koreans to make mobile payments in China and the US

The global payments market has seen a variety of challenges that have restricted payment systems from either successfully expanding overseas or gaining significant market share. Samsung Pay seems to have maneuvered itself around many of the challenges that overseas expansion brings, and has taken steps to increase its global merchant…

Jan

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The Perfect Partnership? India’s Paytm and Alibaba’s cloud computing arm enter into a commercial agreement

Many commercial partnerships result in a broader pool of knowledge, increased resources and the prospect for rapid market growth. This is certainly the case for India’s largest payment startup Paytm and Alibaba’s cloud computing division Aliyun who have just signed an agreement that should be a tremendous opportunity for both…

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