It partnered with Mumbai-based private lender IndusInd Bank to provide remittance services from the US and Singapore to India with no hidden fees or exchange rate markups. It also launched Wise Platform in India to help large companies and banks build Wise’s cross-border payments tech into their infrastructure, according to a press release.
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| Jun 21, 2023
Singapore. Of the six countries in our forecast, Singapore has the most digitally oriented ad market. This year, digital will make up 40.3% of total ad spending, and mobile will account for 82.4% of digital ad spending. Thailand. In terms of total ad spending, Thailand is the second-largest Southeast Asian market we track, behind only Indonesia.
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| Feb 1, 2022
Our digital user estimates for Southeast Asia, which we currently define as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, are updated on an annual basis to continually incorporate the latest changes and developments in consumers’ technology adoption.
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The survey included over 1,400 industry professionals, marketers, and publishers in the US, UK, Australia, Colombia, India, Mexico, and Singapore. Post-cookie readiness: With regard to post-cookie identity resolution, many marketers appear to be playing the field for the time being.
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Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam together will account for about half of TikTok users in Asia-Pacific, excluding China. And all of those countries except Singapore will see their TikTok user base rise more than 10% this year.
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| Mar 28, 2023
Methodology: Data is from an Airship survey conducted by Sapio Research as cited in a May 2023 press release. 11,000 respondents ages 18+ were surveyed in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, the UK, and the US during February 2023. Airship is a provider of mobile engagement solutions.
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| Jun 5, 2023
As examples, the report cites existing requirements in Singapore and in the EU, where companies must explicitly let people withdraw their consent at any time they want. Include expirations for consent. This approach entails using an automatic revocation unless consent is reaffirmed. Move away from passwords.
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| Dec 6, 2021
The share of transactions made via real-time payments infrastructure in Singapore, for example, is expected to increase 78% between 2021 and 2026, per ACI Worldwide. Mastercard’s benefit: partnering with Checkout.com can give Mastercard a stronger foothold in Asia-Pacific and increase its cross-border payments volume.
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Source: Ipsos; Moloco
Article: Shein accelerates Singapore hiring ahead of a potential US IPO. Article: What the metaverse means for retail today, and what's in store for tomorrow.
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Source: Ipsos; Moloco
In late 2021, Southeast Asian nations connected domestic payment networks: Singapore, for example, built out interoperability with the Philippines’ central bank, India’s Unified Payments Interface, and Malaysia’s DuitNow to simplify cross-border transactions between app users in each country.
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| Feb 8, 2022
Respondents were based in Australia, Colombia, India, Mexico, Singapore, the UK, and the US. Lotame is a data management platform (DMP).
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| Dec 8, 2022
The company also plans to expand its streaming service within Southeast Asia, with plans to move into markets like Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines. Prime Video is rebooting Japanese shows and livestreaming the World Bantamweight title fight in June, to win over audiences in Japan.
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Source: Milieu Insights
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Respondents were from United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Thailand.
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The background: Walmart-owned PhonePe has shifted strategies in recent months, separating from parent Flipkart and moving its headquarters from Singapore to India. It has already enjoyed huge success on India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI). PhonePe enabled the biggest share of UPI transactions by volume in December, beating Google Pay and Paytm, per NPCI data.
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| Jan 20, 2023
The news: Stripe introduced Tap to Pay on Android for merchants using Stripe Terminal in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK, and the US, per TechCrunch. The tech lets merchants accept in-person contactless payments with any Android mobile device that has NFC technology. Compatible payment methods include Google Pay and Visa, Mastercard, and American Express cards.
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| Feb 24, 2023
Standard Chartered’s Alex Manson, who runs its SC Ventures unit, said that Thought Machine is providing core services for its digital banks in both Hong Kong and Singapore. The company also counts Lloyds—it led its Series A round and is part of the new one— and SEB as clients and investors. Thought Machine said it will use its proceeds to continue building out Vault, its core banking product.
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| Nov 30, 2021
It also plans to stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UK and imposed a 0.5% surcharge on Visa credit cards in Australia and Singapore. Card fees on ecommerce purchases tend to be higher because they carry a greater risk of fraud. And as one of the biggest online retailers in the world, Amazon pays billions of dollars’ worth of fees each year.
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| Nov 19, 2021
The news: Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, named search and artificial intelligence as the companies’ key areas of focus and expansion at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore.
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| Nov 18, 2021