Insights
17-Oct-18 Singapore e-payments provider Nets is in talks with WeChat Pay to allow its users to make mobile payments in China. The partnership would allow NetsPay users to scan QR codes in China and settle purchases in Singapore dollars. [image: South China Morning Post]
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05-Oct-18 ICICI Bank announced a multi-year partnership with Bhubaneswar city, capital of the state of Odisha in India, to launch a Common Payment Card System which will help citizens use a single payment option for multi-purpose city-level usage. [image: OTV]
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Events
GGM's head of Financial & Business Services, Tom MacDonald, has been invited to speak about payment market trends in the Middle East at the Commercial Payments International Middle East & Africa Symposium in Dubai on 6-Nov-18. Tom will use GGM's proprietary payments market data to compare the Middle East with other world regions, and identify opportunities and threats throughout the payment ecosystem. [Image: Commercial Payments International]
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Insights
20-Sep-18 As part of Flipkart's strategy in India to drive its merchandise volume by 20%, the company is launching affordability instruments, offering customers instant credit of up to INR60,000 (USD823), following Amazon's lead. [image: Business Today]
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Insights
17-Sep-18 Singapore has launched Singapore Quick Response Code (SGQR), which it claims to be the world's first unified payments QR code. It will be adopted by 27 payment schemes including PayNow, Nets, GrabPay, Liquid Pay and Singtel Dash. [image: Finextra]
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