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.
The Philippines is now a USD 40 billion digital economy. That figure—reported by the Philippine Statistics Authority—represents 8.5% of the country’s total GDP and signals something that anyone who’s spent … Read more
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
VNG Corporation holds an estimated 55% of Vietnam’s gaming market — a structural dominance that no global publisher has matched in the region. As of Q1 2026, VNG’s ecosystem spans … 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