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01-May-18 To accelerate its cashless initiatives, Singapore is focusing on driving its efforts towards SMEs who make up 99% of the businesses in Singapore. However, cash payments make up nearly 60% of transactions. [image: Shutterstock / Techwire Asia]
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01-May-18 UnionPay is expanding the acceptance of the UnionPay app to 25 countries and regions outside China. Users can pay with a UnionPay QR code or activate the contactless payment function of their NFC-enabled mobile phone. [image: NFC World]
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01-May-18 Mobile payment has become more popular in China's rural areas as Internet technology has made transactions faster and more convenient in remote places. Transactions through non-banking mobile payment services totaled USD6.8 tn in rural areas in 2017. [image: China Plus]
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29-Apr-18 Nowadays in the GCC, cell phones are shaping how consumers search, purchase and pay for goods and services. Clearly, commerce is moving to mobile phones and so is the payments ecosystem. [image: Techwire Asia]
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27-Apr-18 Ant Financial, a unit of Alibaba, is buying a 20 percent stake in Bangladeshi mobile financial services provider bKash. Established in 2010, bKash runs a network of more than 180,000 agents with over 30 million registered accounts. [image: Reuters / Bobby Yip]
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