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13-Jan-18 The number of mobile payment users in India surged 75% from 2016 to 56 million in 2017. This is expected to grow to 77 million in 2018 - nearly 30% of India's smartphone users. [image: Business Standard]
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12-Jan-18 Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group will take advantage of its vast customer base of 60 million to strengthen mobile payment services, aiming to unite its customers through a digital wallet app. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]
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12-Jan-18 Line, the company behind a messaging application of the same name, is stepping up promotion of its Line Pay mobile platform to vendors across Japan, seeking to make it available at 1 million locations by 2020. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]
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12-Jan-18 Chinese Internet regulators have scolded the country’s leading mobile payments company, Ant Financial, parent company of Alipay, for compromising its customers’ privacy by automatically enrolling users in its credit-scoring system, putting pressure on firms to better protect personal data. [image: Mobile Marketer]
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10-Jan-18 A fast and easy payment system linking major banks and electronic payment platforms will be available in Hong Kong in September 2018. A pilot scheme is also in the works to allow people to pay government bills using their electronic-wallets. [image: Dickson Lee / SCMP]
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