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APRIL 30, 2020

The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), the Lyon, France-based global law enforcement agency, said suspects have been arrested delivering cocaine, marijuana, ketamine and ecstasy by bicycle, motorcycle and car in Ireland, Malaysia, Spain and the United Kingdom.

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MAY 14, 2020

To bolster global payments for businesses throughout the world, EMQ launched its new enterprise payment technology with same-day settlement functions in local currencies throughout eight countries.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

The recent announcement that China’s UnionPay and Huawei are teaming up to bring Huawei Pay to Russia stands as the latest example that alternative payments are spreading to different parts of the world. WeChat users in Malaysia can transfer money between friends and family and make payments to offline merchants in the country’s currency.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

The Malaysia-based digital asset solutions provider, exchange operator and regulator, based in Malaysia, will also accept all major digital assets listed on SPEZA Digital Asset Exchange. Edwin Alden V.

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MAY 8, 2019

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the unveiling of an eWallet payment service with Boost and Shell Malaysia. In Malaysia , Boost along with Shell Malaysia unveiled the availability of a payment service through an eWallet at Shell stations, Digital News Asia reported.

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JUNE 24, 2020

eMarketer said nine nations are forecast to experience over 20 percent growth in retail online shopping sales in 2020, headed up by Malaysia, Spain and the Philippines. The analyst noted that there will be a sizable drop in retail sales around the world this year, especially with non-essential goods not sold via digital.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

In the January Digital Identity Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest developments in the world of digital IDs, including new government-provided identity initiatives from Malaysia, Morocc o and Ukraine, verification partnerships from Jumio and open-source digital ID initiatives that could be game-changers for identity security.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Digital cross-border payments provider InstaReM has announced that it is rebranding to become part of Nium , the first global payments platform that allows businesses to send, spend and receive money from around the world.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The joint venture will initially focus on core markets for both Razer and Franklin Templeton’s Singapore subsidiary, including not just Singapore, but also Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, with plans to eventually expand to other countries across the world. “We

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APRIL 24, 2020

With social distancing and an economic downturn the new reality for many markets around the world, venture capital is expected to slow significantly. Yet demand for contactless payments and digital, automated financial solutions means FinTech funding may not take as hard of a hit as other startup segments.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

Digital cross-border payments provider InstaReM has announced that it is rebranding to become part of Nium , the first global payments platform that allows businesses to send, spend and receive money from around the world.

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MAY 6, 2020

And while the startup field might not be as golden as it was in the pre-pandemic days, investors are looking at companies in fields like telehealth, gaming and eCommerce to see where the money is in the quickly-changed world. The company’s total financing is now around $400 million.

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JULY 26, 2020

Despite obstacles in place from the pandemic, digital currency is still continuing to expand around the world. Bitcoin has been negatively impacted by the pandemic over the past few months, halving for the third time in May and slicing the rewards bitcoin miners earn, per Reuters.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The service is being offered in 10 countries, including Chile, Peru, Colombia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Kenya and Indonesia. Western Union has rolled out a new payment option that will let international Amazon.com customers pay in their respective country’s currency, the company announced in a press release.

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APRIL 29, 2019

China, for instance, has a plan to turn 835 acres off the shores of Malacca, Malaysia into a city built off the technology. Lim Keng Kai, the project’s CEO, said per reports that “our company is using cutting-edge blockchain technologies and integrating those into the traditional industry to make Malaysia a world-class tourist destination.

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MARCH 31, 2020

Shopmatic already has a presence in India, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Philippines and UAE. According to its website, MatchMove is “building a world-class fintech platform to enable fast, secure and regulated money-moving experiences for the end-users of our clients and partners.”

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“We are proud to have supported Luno as an early investor, and we recognize a shared commitment to building mission-driven companies that can help transform traditional financial services and improve economic freedom for people all over the world,” DCG Founder and CEO Barry Silbert said in the announcement.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

Mastercard is an iconic global brand that our client schools and their student families trust for convenient and secure payments anywhere around the world,” said Mike Massaro, CEO of Flywire, in a prepared statement. The program will help students and families take a small bite out of the high cost of education, Flywire said in the release.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Ant’s IPO in Shanghai and Hong Kong is expected to be the world’s biggest. Ma is the founder of China’s eCommerce giant Alibaba, an Ant Group affiliate, and is the richest man in China and the 12 th richest in the world. Top investors like the sovereign-wealth funds of Singapore and Malaysia invested $500 million each.

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MAY 23, 2019

The company was founded in 2014 in Singapore and it has licenses and offices in Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, Canada, the EU and the United States. The money transfer company already powers payments for three major banks in Southeast Asia, as well as leading financial institutions around the world.

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MARCH 27, 2019

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Mobile payments are on the rise in Malaysia , bus operator Lynxbus plans to roll out cashless payments in the United Kingdom and Telco M1 plans to help protect mobile phone users from eWallet theft in Singapore with the help of DISA.

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JUNE 29, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic and its boost to online commerce has provided a major lift to Stripe , the San Francisco-based startup whose software provides the backbone for eCommerce networks around the world. BECS Direct Debit in Australia, FPX bank debits in Malaysia and pre-authorized debits (PADs) in Canada.”.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

CIMB , a banking group that operates in countries such as Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand, has inked a deal with Ripple in order to bring the company’s blockchain technology to its SpeedSend remittance offering, Cryptovest reported. He added that the group’s network already includes close to 800 branches and involves 15 countries.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

With billions of [Android] phones around the world at the ready, the opportunity that comes with lighting them up as payment acceptance devices is enormous,” said Mary Kay Bowman, global head of buyer and seller solutions at Visa. Also, Visa said it’s preparing to launch TTP in Brazil, Italy and the United Kingdom. 2 Billion Points Of Light.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The digital asset solutions provider, exchange operator and regulator, based in Malaysia, will also accept all major digital assets listed on SPEZA Digital Asset Exchange. SPEZA is looking forward to working closely with the authorities and being among the first Digital Asset Exchanges in the world to adopt DCEP,” said attorney Edwin Alden V.

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APRIL 30, 2018

UniPAY (Georgia), and MoneyMatch (Malaysia). All of these customers run into the same problem: building bespoke connections to banks and networks all over the world. Ripple has announced that five new customers across Europe and Asia will use xVia to power payments over RippleNet, its blockchain network. RationalFX (U.K.),

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

They are also growing more popular among world governments. Australia, Thailand, Malaysia and the United Kingdom are a handful of nations that are exploring the benefits. In a new PYMNTS conversation, Karen Webster and Dan Burkhart, CEO at Recurly , discuss how Peloton fits into the larger world of digital payments and commerce.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

“TRAVEL MAKES ONE MODEST, YOU SEE WHAT A TINY PLACE YOU OCCUPY IN THE WORLD.” ~ GUSTAVE FLAUBERT. The internet and social media have certainly made the world a smaller place. It’s easier than ever before to read up about places you want to visit, refer to real-world reviews, and plan your entire vacation down to a T.

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JUNE 26, 2020

In the June Digital-First Banking Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of digital-first banking, including the challenges involved in customer onboarding, surges in digital banking resulting from COVID-19 and various contactless banking solutions that aim to serve consumers during the pandemic.

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JULY 28, 2016

A 42-year-old man charged with running a high-end counterfeit money scheme was hauled into a New York courtroom on Wednesday (July 27) after being extradited from Malaysia. Louay Ibrahim Houssein was arrested in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia in 2014 on charges of making fake U.S. “The reliability of U.S.

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APRIL 26, 2016

The solution will first open for SMEs in Malaysia and Singapore, reports added. In Malaysia, meanwhile, reports said that awareness of cloud services is at 76 percent of SMEs, with usage at about 34 percent. More than one-third of survey respondents said they plan to upgrade their current software or to acquire more.

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JULY 27, 2017

Malaysia is the first country to join the Electronic World Trade Platform, a program initiated by Alibaba Group Founder Jack Ma to help SMEs expand their trading capabilities worldwide. “To In addition to this recent partnership, Ant Financial is in the process of acquiring MoneyGram in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

the European Union, Singapore, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia and Malaysia, processing billions of dollars a year for banks, payments institutions and retail users around the world. Backed by investors including Vertex Ventures, Fullerton Financial Holdings, Rocket Internet and MDI Ventures, Nium is currently regulated in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Digital IDs are growing more popular among world governments as well. Developments From Around the World of Digital ID.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

Digital identity solutions are becoming increasingly necessary as the world’s population grows. billion people worldwide lack basic ID credentials, according to the World Bank, and that number rises even higher when it includes individuals with poor-quality IDs that cannot be easily verified. An estimated 1.1

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MARCH 8, 2019

Chinese bike sharing company Mobike, which once attracted billions from big-name investors, said it is closing down all of its operations around the world, to focus solely on China. Laid off team members were told that Mobike was ramping down its business, but they weren’t told why.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Our company is using cutting-edge blockchain technologies and integrating those into the traditional industry to make Malaysia a world-class tourist destination. We have the government approval to remediate this land and came up with some great plans for the area,” project CEO Lim Keng Kai said, according to Cointelegraph.

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