Ecommerce, social commerce, payments, logistics and cloud are making China–Indonesia one of the region’s defining digital relationships. Indonesia’s digital economy reached an estimated US$99 billion in GMV in 2025 (e-Conomy … Read more
Chinese platforms, payments, ecommerce, EVs and travel flows are reshaping Thailand’s consumer and digital economy. Thailand’s ecommerce market grew faster than any other Southeast Asian country in 2025, and Chinese … 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.
Toss, operated by Viva Republica, isn’t just South Korea’s most popular fintech app — it’s the clearest proof that the Asian super app model can work outside China and Southeast … 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
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
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