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.
Dana has done something none of its Indonesian competitors have managed: it’s built a user base approaching 200 million[1] — roughly 70% of Indonesia’s population[1] — without being embedded inside … Read more
A super app is a single mobile application that bundles multiple services — rides, deliveries, payments, lending, shopping, entertainment — into one platform. The concept barely exists in the West, … Read more
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
The DIA Briefing
Asia’s digital markets, every other week. Free.