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Insights
02-Oct-18 Vietnamese ride-hailing app FastGo, positioning itself as a rival to Singapore-based Grab, plans to launch its service in Indonesia and Myanmar in Dec-18 as it hopes to become one of the top companies in the field in Southeast Asia. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]
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Events
GGM's head of Financial & Business Services, Tom MacDonald, has been invited to speak about payment market trends in the Middle East at the Commercial Payments International Middle East & Africa Symposium in Dubai on 6-Nov-18. Tom will use GGM's proprietary payments market data to compare the Middle East with other world regions, and identify opportunities and threats throughout the payment ecosystem. [Image: Commercial Payments International]
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16-Aug-18 Chinese tech giants Tencent and Alibaba are bringing their payment platforms to Hong Kong, a city that has long thrived on cash and plastic, putting them into competition with Google, Apple and Samsung, and local players like HSBC. [image: Business Insider]
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30-Jun-18 Consumers will complete mobile payment using upgraded facial recognition technologies on China-branded Android phones as early as Jul-18. Oppo will partner with Alibaba to kick off facial recognition authorization on AliPay using its new technology called FaceKey 3D. [image: Shine]
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28-Jun-18 Japanese chat app operator Line unveiled a new service aimed at spreading mobile payment across Japan, in the most potent challenge yet by a Japanese operator to the dominant Chinese mobile payment platform, Alipay. [image: Keiichiro Sato / Nikkei Asian Review]
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