"E-Wallet"

The government is issuing Bt200 million in saving bonds at Bt1 each, for sale to the public via Krung Thai Bank (KTB)’s e-wallet system, the Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) announced on Tuesday (June 16).

Thais ranked second globally for time spent on their mobile phones and fifth for the amount of time spent on the Internet, according to a report by “socially led creative agency” We Are Social. Filipinos were ranked number one for overall Web usage.

E-WALLET Go-Pay announced last week that it has equipped 80 street performers in Jakarta with accounts as part of a new partnership between the company and the Street Musicians Institute (IMJ), of which all the performers are members.

THE PUBLIC has been warned to beware of hackers accessing Facebook accounts to dupe others to send money using e-wallets.

E-payment provider TrueMoney announced on Monday “new and improved” features for its TrueMoney Wallet application.

CHINESE mobile payment leaders Alipay and WeChat Pay are wrapping up a week-long battle to encourage consumers to use their e-wallet services amid an escalat-ing duel for digital payment supremacy.

TOUCH ‘n Go Sdn Bhd’s (TNG) tie-up with Alibaba’s Ant Financial Services Group to build an e-wallet for the Malaysian market is an exclusive deal, says Effendy Shahul Hamid of CIMB Investment Bank Bhd.

YANGON - Myanmar Apex Bank, the nation’s first bank to offer an e-wallet service, has set its sights on expanding the service across the country in three months, banking on the high mobile phone penetration rate.

SINGAPORE - The brief was simple. Spend a week using only Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay. Just tap and pay with my smartphone. No cash, coins or even physical credit cards.

HCM CITY - M_Services JSC, the company that sells MoMo or Mobile Money service, has raised US$25 million from Standard Chartered Private Equity and $3 million from global investment bank Goldman Sachs.