Visa

Visa’s quarterly revenue just missed Wall Street estimates — a rarity for the world’s biggest payments network.

The feature, mobile tap, allows merchants to accept contactless payments without the need of a point-of-sale terminal.

This means eligible NETS merchants will now be able to accept payments using NETS, Mastercard and Visa.

Cake DeFi launches B2B vertical while BigPay partners TripleA to allow crypto top-ups in Singapore.

Affirm is out to disrupt the credit card business by changing the way young people shop, pay and use credit.

Currently operating in Singapore and Thailand, YouTrip is now eyeing Malaysia and the Philippines.

Digital banks are coming and Singaporeans seem to be excited for it.

Singapore (Oct 7): “Officially Tuas is designed to handle 65 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent units), but I am sure PSA can squeeze a little more out of it if we work hard.” – Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, at the groundbreaking of the Tuas Megapor

SINGAPORE (July 22): “Carrying around their cup was a status symbol. They were the first store in New York to offer extra virgin olive oil. Now Amazon has extra virgin olive oil. Everyone has extra virgin olive oil.” — Restaurant critic Joshua David

SINGAPORE (July 17): Visa has invested in Gojek, the mobile on-demand service and payments platform, as part of the latter’s ongoing Series F fundraising round.