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StarHub enhances prepaid app to allow mobile remittances
StarHub Mobile Prepaid customers can now easily send money to family and friends in over 40 countries in as quickly as a day.
December 14, 2020
E-payment
PayPal enters China, but what about Southeast Asia?
Singapore (Oct 7): Inside the sprawling 728,000 sq ft Silicon Valley headquarters of payments company PayPal Holdings, CEO and president Dan Schulman walks about in a black crewneck sweater and jeans, his feet shod in open-toed sandals. His lightly tanned
October 04, 2019
Fintech
GrabPay now available at BreadTalk, to roll out at Toast Box in Oct
SINGAPORE (Aug 8): BreadTalk has partnered with Grab to introduce the ride hailing and mobile payments app’s GrabPay service across its 42 bakery outlets across Singapore.
August 08, 2018
Broker's Calls
Rise of cashless payments keeps Singapore's banking sector 'overweight'
SINGAPORE (Dec 1): UOB Kay Hian is maintaining Singapore’s banking sector on “overweight” as the recent boom in mobile payments is paving the way for Singapore to become a cashless society.
December 01, 2017
Broker's Calls
Banking on cashless payments to raise profits by up to 9%
SINGAPORE (Sept 18): Even as Singapore gears up on its cashless payments ambitions, Maybank Kim Eng Research says higher adoption of e-payments could raise the banks’ earnings in FY17-19E by as much as 9%.
September 18, 2017
Are ride-sharing companies the new banks?
(Sept 5): In Southeast Asia, mobile banking is taking on a whole new meaning. Last week, Grab, one of the region's top ride-hailing companies, announced that users of its app can start sending credits -- used to pay for rides -- to each other. By the
September 05, 2017
Fintech
OCBC launches first standalone mobile payments app
SINGAPORE (May 30): OCBC Bank has announced the launch of its first standalone mobile payments app, OCBC Pay Anyone, which is now available for download at the Apple and Google Play mobile app stores.
May 30, 2017