WhatsApp Pay finally unshackled in India, or is it?
In Momentum Works’ 2019 predictions for India made in December 2018, we predicted that “WhatsApp payment fails to take off”. It turned out to...
Who will be the Alipay of Thailand
This article is contributed by Zhao Tang, who is currently doing EMBA in Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University
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Less than a week after launch, Whatsapp Pay is suspended in...
Less than a week after Facebook announced the launch of WhatsApp Pay in Brazil, the country’s central bank (BCB) stopped the payment.
Brazil is the...
“Why OVO is More Likely to Succeed in Payment Space”
This article is written by Kameswara Natakusumah and was originally published on LinkedIn. Reproduced with the author's permission here.
A Morgan Stanley study released this February...
Why is Brazilian payment company StoneCo so popular?
Brazil's banking system is one of the most bureaucratic in the world, and the five largest Brazilian banks (namely, Itau Unibanco, Banco Santander, Banco...
Can Tencent match Ant Financial after $175 million investment in Philippine...
The main product of Mynt is e-wallet GCash
Voyager was founded in 2013, and owns e-wallet PayMaya, remittance service provider Smart Padala, lending platform Lendr,...
KrisPay: just another wallet from … an airline?
It seems like every company these days wants to set up their own payment platform. Users in Singapore are probably used to a variety...
Why Fave will never match up to Meituan
If you live in countries like Singapore and Malaysia, you’d probably have come across FavePay stickers like the following:
Fave, which bought Groupon’s assets...
Kudo(s) to Grab – good acquisition, but failed integration?
Grab's acquisition of Kudo was hailed as a strategic coup against Gojek, but why has it not taken the lead in payments?