Vietnam’s digital economy reached an estimated $39 billion in gross merchandise value in 2025, growing at roughly 19% year-on-year and cementing the country’s position as Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing digital market … Read more
India’s digital economy reached an estimated $402 billion in 2025, accounting for 11.74% of GDP and growing faster than virtually any comparable market on earth (MEITY, 2025). With 1.03 billion … Read more
China’s digital economy reached 54 trillion yuan (~$7.5 trillion) in 2023, accounting for 43% of GDP and growing at 10.3% year-on-year — making it the world’s largest digital economy by … Read more
Asian financial institutions are leading global enterprise AI adoption, with the sector representing the most mature deployment of artificial intelligence across the region. DBS Bank in Singapore creates an estimated … Read more
Cash-on-delivery collapsed in Southeast Asia faster than any payment method transition in regional history. In 2019, COD represented 52% of all e-commerce payments across the region. By Q1 2026, it … 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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