A working tracker of who owns mobile payments across fifteen Asian markets. Alipay and WeChat Pay in China, UPI in India, GCash in the Philippines, and a region-specific stack everywhere else.
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In 2017, China became Singapore’s top market for both tourism receipts and visitor arrivals, contributing 3.2 million tourists. As one in a series of parallel moves seen worldwide, mobile payment … Read more
In 2018, China is an almost entirely cashless consumer economy, where popular mobile payment apps such as WeChat Pay and Alipay have enabled consumers to go straight from cash, to smartphone … Read more