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How Past Lessons in Digital Payments Can Help Banks Navigate in the New Normal
Payments

How Past Lessons in Digital Payments Can Help Banks Navigate in the New Normal

The past couple of decades have seen a complete upheaval in where we buy things and how we pay for them. New technologies have led to huge shifts in consumer behavior and expectation, while businesses have benefitted from faster and

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Japan’s JCB Taps on Soft Space’s Expertise to Power its Tap on Mobile Contactless Payment
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Japan’s JCB Taps on Soft Space’s Expertise to Power its Tap on Mobile Contactless Payment

JCB, Japan’s international payment brand, is leveraging Malaysia’s Soft Space’s technological expertise to develop the Tap on Mobile programme that capitalises on the wide availability of Android smartphones equipped with NFC (near-field communication). The programme enables merchants to accept card

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Singapore’s FOMO Pay Expands into Malaysia Through OCBC Partnership
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Singapore’s FOMO Pay Expands into Malaysia Through OCBC Partnership

FOMO Pay, Singapore-based digital payment and digital banking solution provider, partnered with OCBC Malaysia to develop OCBC OneCollect as its first merchant cross-border QR code collection service. This service allows any account holder of Singapore’s PayNow participating banks to make

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Malaysians Contribute Over RM250,000 Boost E-Wallet’s Tabung COVID-19 in 10 Days
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Malaysians Contribute Over RM250,000 Boost E-Wallet’s Tabung COVID-19 in 10 Days

Between 21 to 31 March 2020, Malaysians contributed a total of RM258,921.30 to the ‘Tabung COVID-19 by Boost’ fund to aid front liners in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. These donations have been channeled to the Ministry of Health’s

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GHL Launches Service to Help Brick & Mortar Businesses Get Online in 3 Days
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GHL Launches Service to Help Brick & Mortar Businesses Get Online in 3 Days

GHL Systems Berhad (GHL) and its online payments arm, GHL ePayments Sdn Bhd (eGHL), announced the launch of a brand new service to help physical businesses and shops get online and e-commerce ready in 3 days. The GHL group said

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Boost’s Tabung COVID-19 Enables Malaysians to Donate to Frontliners Using Their E-Wallet
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Boost’s Tabung COVID-19 Enables Malaysians to Donate to Frontliners Using Their E-Wallet

Homegrown e-wallet Boost today announced the introduction of Tabung COVID-19 by Boost, a donation fund to help ease the burden of those directly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic in Malaysia. This news follows the group’s launch of RM 150 Million

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Merchantrade Receives BNM Approval to Increase E-Wallet Limit Size to RM 20,000
E-Wallets Payments

Merchantrade Receives BNM Approval to Increase E-Wallet Limit Size to RM 20,000

Merchantrade announced today that their multicurrency e-wallet has obtained regulatory approval to increased its wallet size from RM 10,000 to RM 20,000. Their VISA enabled multicurrency e-wallet was launched in January 2018, and it is primarily used travellers to exchange

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Dapat Vista Partners with Bank Islam and Bank Muamalat to Enable Digital Bail Payment
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Dapat Vista Partners with Bank Islam and Bank Muamalat to Enable Digital Bail Payment

Dapat Vista, Bank Islam, and Bank Mualamalat inked an agreement on Wednesday to launch a digital bail payment solution, eJamin. The solution is said to be the first digital bail payment solution in Malaysia and South East Asia. Dapat Vista

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Singapore’s hoolah Brings its Interest-Free Pay Later Solutions to Malaysia
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Singapore’s hoolah Brings its Interest-Free Pay Later Solutions to Malaysia

hoolah, a Singapore based company, is bringing their interest-free installment solution to Malaysia. Since their launch in 2018, hoolah has been working with a variety of merchants to allow for consumers to get what they need and want, while paying

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Bank Islam Partners KiplePay in Cashless Push for Universities
E-Wallets Payments

Bank Islam Partners KiplePay in Cashless Push for Universities

Bank Islam and KiplePay, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Green Packet announced this week that they have teamed up to launch KipleUNI, a programme to drive adoption cashless technologies. This collaboration integrates the KiplePay app and Bank Islam’s services and enables

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