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29-Jan-18 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will visit the UAE to launch the new Overseas Filipino Bank, offering deposits, loans, investments and remittance and payment services to cater for the needs of overseas Filipino workers. [image: iStock / Asia Times]
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27-Jan-18 Korea’s leading online shopping companies Tmon and WeMakePrice are discussing the introduction of virtual currency payment options. WeMakePrice is considering a way to use virtual currencies in conjunction with its own payment service, Wonder Pay. [Image: Business Korea]
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27-Jan-18 RuPay will provide health information and discounts to all its customers according to its agreement with India’s largest health care network, Oxxy, with over 200,000 hospitals, diagnostics and pathlabs across 1,500 cities in India. [image: ET Healthworld]
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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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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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