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Amazon Sets Sights On Southeast Asia

PYMNTS

So while online retail accounts for about 5 percent of Southeast Asian commerce today, the region’s internet economy is poised to grow tremendously by 2025, with a projected annual worth of over $200 billion. But Amazon isn’t waiting until 2025, or even 2020. Its small size makes establishing an operation simple.

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What Digital ID Will Mean For Daily Life In 2020 And Beyond

PYMNTS

As digital payments and commerce grows — and as consumers and regulators focus more on issues related to web security and privacy — digital ID continues to take more of a role in addressing those concerns, and helping online companies and organizations win over more consumer and otherwise scale. ID Data Points.

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What’s Next For Payments In The Next Decade: The Seven 2020 Trendlines

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The demand for those smartphones (and the competition for lowering their prices) will increase as access to faster internet comes online, as developing markets move from 2G/3G to 4G, and as developed markets move from 4G to 5G. That’s not just because consumers can shop and buy online without leaving the house.

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Welcome To The Connected Economy

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The demand for those smartphones (and the competition for lowering their prices) will increase as access to faster internet comes online, as developing markets move from 2G/3G to 4G, and as developed markets move from 4G to 5G. That’s not just because consumers can shop and buy online without leaving the house.

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A Digital Transformation Journey: The Humble Wallet

FICO

From the rapid and sudden shift to online and mobile banking, to exploring artificial intelligence (AI) and hyper-personalization , the finance world is changing quickly. And I’m not alone, as many others are eagerly moving their payment information into things like Apple Wallet and Samsung Wallet for daily use.

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The Race For 5G: How 20 Corporations Are Building The Future Of Connectivity

CB Insights

Companies vying to take a 5G lead range from network provider Verizon to device maker Samsung to chipset maker Qualcomm, among many others. Samsung pushing premium 5G devices. In August 2018, Samsung announced it planned to invest approximately $22B in 5G and AI technologies over the course of the next three years.

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BRICS Drives Mobile Payments Growth Last Decade

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Drilling down a bit, and as reported in March, through the Russian publication Izvestia, the joint efforts could see the creation of an online wallet that would unite the payment systems of each of those countries. And for India, of course, national initiatives are also a driving force in cashless payments.

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