Singapore remains the operating layer for US technology, capital and regulation across Southeast Asia. US–Singapore bilateral trade hit S$145.7 billion (around US$112.6 billion) in 2024, with the US running a … Read more
Education, fintech, skills, climate technology and consumer platforms give Australia and Indonesia more digital overlap than the relationship usually suggests. Australia and Indonesia are direct neighbours with a combined population … Read more
The next phase of UK–Vietnam ties could be shaped by fintech, education, AI services, healthtech and digital transformation. UK–Vietnam bilateral trade hit a record US$8.4 billion in 2024, up 18% … Read more
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.
Razorpay is India’s dominant full-stack payments and business banking platform, processing an annualised total payment volume (TPV) of $180 billion across more than 12 million merchants. Co-founded in 2014 by … Read more
Kakao Corp isn’t a messaging company that bolted on services — it’s a platform conglomerate that grew out of a chat app. As of its 2025 full-year results, Kakao reported … Read more
Why does Sea Group matter in 2026? Sea Limited closed 2025 with $22.9 billion in revenue, $1.6 billion in net income, and three businesses operating at scale that almost no … Read more
PhonePe processes 48% of all UPI transactions in India. Paytm handles roughly 7%. Two years ago, that gap was half as wide. The Reserve Bank of India’s crackdown on Paytm … Read more
Grab Holdings isn’t just a ride-hailing company anymore — and hasn’t been for years. As of 2025, Grab operates across eight Southeast Asian countries and 900+ cities with 47 million … Read more
South Korea’s digital economy runs through two companies. Naver, the country’s dominant search engine, posted KRW 10.7 trillion in revenue in 2024 — the first time a domestic internet company … Read more