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.
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