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22-Jan-18 Amid a dire economic crisis in Venezuela a payment innovation is taking hold. Hyperinflation has resulted in a short supply of cash and mobile payments have come to fill the void. [image: Reuters]
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22-Jan-18 A UnionPay survey confirmed m-payments fraud in China is on the rise. Of those surveyed, 60% had been hit with a security threat related to mobile payments, including everything from information leaks to full attacks on systems. [image: UnionPay]
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18-Jan-18 Japan's smartphone penetration exceeds 70% and households using e-money exceeded 50% in 2017. Now, analysts are expecting a 20% increase in cashless payments as the labour shortage and a tourist influx drive money to cards and phones. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]
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18-Jan-18 Japanese company Line is adding a financial instrument trading feature to its messaging app, its latest move to broaden services for its 71 million monthly users. It will work with Folio, a Tokyo online securities brokerage. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]
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17-Jan-18 Hong Kong has been a laggard in latching onto the e-commerce trend, with leading online platforms Alibaba and Amazon currently grabbing most of the orders, but that hasn’t stopped local entity HKTV from throwing its hat into the ring. [image: HKEJ]
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