The Philippines‘ digital wallet market hit $4.1 billion in 2025, growing at 11.2% CAGR (Expert Market Research). Digital payments now account for 57.4% of all retail transaction volume and 59% … 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
Digital wallets, account-to-account payments and buy-now-pay-later services are changing how Southeast Asian consumers pay online. However, payment preferences differ substantially by market, and cash on delivery remains part of the … Read more
Everyone loves the UPI story. And why wouldn’t they? A country that had 190 million unbanked adults a decade ago now runs the world’s largest real-time payments network. The Unified … Read more
In the space of a single decade, India built the world’s largest real-time payments network, enrolled 1.34 billion citizens in a biometric identity system, and created an open-finance data-sharing framework … Read more
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