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02-Jun-18 Grab estimates Southeast Asia e-payments are worth USD500 bn and is launching GrabPay and lending service Grab Financial, but will compete not only with AirPay and Alipay, but also with local firms such as ZaloPay and MoMo. [image: Vietnam Net]
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29-May-18 Facebook is set to offer its WhatsApp payment services to the whole of India from Jun-18 in an attempt to win market share, even though its partners are not all ready. [image: Hoch Zwei / Getty Images]
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25-May-18 The prospect of tens of millions of digital payment customers in Indonesia is too much for digital companies and investors to ignore. The likes of SoftBank, Ant Financial, and Didi-Chuxing are injecting billions of dollars to gain a foothold. [image: Global Growth Markets]
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Articles
When it comes to growth opportunities for digital payments, Indonesia is in a league of its own. The prospect of tens of millions of new digital payment customers is too much for digital companies and investors to ignore. Looking at the numbers, it comes down to a combination of three factors telling payment companies that the timing is right, right now, to move into Indonesia: E-commerce growth; the size of the prize; familiarity with everything online.
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24-May-18 While mobile payments are now de rigueur in many parts of the world, Taiwan has been a little late to the party, having only really embraced the technology and legislative framework some three years ago. [image: Xinhua News Agency]
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