Payments Research

Mar

Wrong foot forward – why Infibeam’s IPO sets the wrong tone for the markets

Last week saw the first ever IPO by an Indian e-commerce company. Infibeam’s IPO however, might not provide an accurate baseline for the booming Indian ecommerce industry.

Mar

China Payments Research

How much it actually costs Tencent to make a WeChat payment

Tencent was reporting its quarterly earnings on March 17th and for the first time the company disclosed its WeChat Wallet fees that the company pays to partner banks. Tencent CEO Pony Ma said the fees are 0.1% of each transaction and totalled more than RMB 300 million in January.

Mar

India Payments Research

Integration is winning the payments race in India

The payments space in India is heating up. Smaller players are looking at exits through consolidation into bigger players. The bigger players have challenges of their own.

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