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June 4th 2019

Marco Polo completes EU to Asia trade transaction

Bangkok Bank and Commerzbank have jointly run an international trade transaction based on distributed...

June 4th 2019

UOB and Mastercard partner on SME payments card

UOB and Mastercard have announced the launch of the UOB Regal Business Metal Card, Asia Pacific’s...

May 20th 2019

Deutsche Bank processing corporate instant payments in Malaysia

Deutsche Bank has announced that it is now able to process payments using Malaysia’s instant credit...

May 20th 2019

Paytm First Card issued by Citi

Paytm has launched First Card, which it says is India’s first card with 1% universal unlimited...

May 13th 2019

Mastercard announces US$1bn additional investment in India

Mastercard has announced an investment of US$1bn over the next five years in India, in addition...

May 13th 2019

Japan’s cashless initiatives set to spur electronic payments, GlobalData Report finds

Japan is making progress towards becoming a cashless society, with the share of cash in total payments...

April 29th 2019

Citi introduces biometric authentication for business clients in Asia

Citi’s institutional clients in China, India, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam can now use fingerprint...

April 29th 2019

First settlement executed on Comdex platform

Comdex has announced the successful execution of the first ever settlement on the Comdex platform...

April 18th 2019

Standard Chartered expands corporate solutions to additional Asian markets

Standard Chartered has announced the expansion of Straight2Bank Pay, its digital collections gateway...

April 15th 2019

NAB enables end-to-end payments tracking with SWIFT gpi

NAB business customers can now track their international payments by the click of a button and view...