Subsising MDR is a masterstroke by Indian government
Last Friday (16th December 2017) the Indian Government announced that from January 1 2018 it would absorb the merchant discount rate (MDR) on transactions...
Momentum Works’ predictions for Southeast Asia 2018 – abridged
We’re often tasked by our clients (and joint venture partners) to try and predict the future. Thankfully, due to our experience, and from keeping...
Momentum Works’ predictions for Southeast Asia 2018 – full version
We’re often tasked by our clients (and joint venture partners) to try and predict the future. Thankfully, due to our experience, and from keeping...
Why Baidu fell behind Alibaba & Tencent (and what can be...
Those who are familiar with China’s internet scene would have heard the term “BAT” - which is the acronym for “Baidu, Alibaba & Tencent”,...
Uber is right to shrug off the ‘taxi company’ ruling
We always believed that with the present business model, Uber is essentially a big taxi business with a better customer experience rather than anything...
[MW Special Report] Payment in Vietnam
The mobile payment market in Vietnam is in what we call a Wild West phase, and there is still the opportunity for any given...
[MW Special Report] Payment Overview in Indonesia
As Southeast Asia’s largest economy by GDP (US$932 billion ) and the most populated market (264 million ), Indonesia has been attracting technology companies...
Are Self-Service Terminals The Way to go for Restaurants?
Self-service ordering and payment kiosks, initially deployed by McDonalds and Golden Village Cinemas, are now widely available among fast food franchises in Singapore.
In...
Angry CEO & his Ezbuy
“We can’t decide whether the big players are bullying us, but we can do our best to improve ourselves in order not to be...
[MW Special Report] Consumer Finance Overview in Indonesia – Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, we had an overview of the entire Indonesian market, and zoomed into consumer behaviour and consumer finance market....
