Consumer buying behaviours have changed dramatically over the past years due to pandemic lockdowns and prolonged movement controls. As online shopping becomes mainstream, fraud has correspondingly mig…
.
Your one-stop source for retail intelligence in Asia
PPRO adds GoPay e-wallet as payment option
Digital payments infrastructure provider PPRO has integrated Gojek’s GoPay e-wallet onto its platform. It offers an alternative payment option for Indonesia and has over 190 million app downloads sinc…
Alipay+ announces partnership with Singapore Taxi operator ComfortDelGro
ComfortDelGro Taxi and Alipay+ announced a partnership that enables mobile payments from Malaysia and South Korea, namely the Touch ‘n Go eWallet and Kakao Pay, to be accepted as cashless payment opti…
Apple launches Buy Now, Pay Later service
Apple announces the expansion of Apple Pay with the Buy Now, Pay Later option at its latest Worldwide Developers Conference.…
Buy Now, Pay Later 2.0 has arrived: Live Now, Pay Later
The concept of consumer credit at point-of-sale has existed for many years. What started out as merchant loans, originally to farmers, later evolved into bank lending and credit cards. In recent years…
Okra Hong Kong to accept cryptocurrency
Game-changing neighborhood Izakaya, Okra Hong Kong, now accepts cryptocurrencies, the world’s most innovative digital payment method in order to provide guests with enhanced security and payment conve…
Shilla Duty Free’s Chinese business boosted by WeChat Pay
The Shilla Duty Free, the travel retail unit of South Korea’s Hotel Shilla Co., announced that the number of Chinese members and website visitors has surged since it began accepting WeChat Pay service…
Mobile payments to reach $410.5 billion by 2020
Mobile retail payments, both online and at the point of sale, are expected to total $180 billion in 2016 and balloon to $410.5 billion by 2020.…