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13 Southeast Asian Fintechs Among CNBC’s Global Top 250 List

Fintech News

In May 2024, Aspire launched in Hong Kong, offering a suite of financial solutions to SMEs, including the ability to open local business accounts for payables and receivables management, international payments, as well as payment gateway solution. The group reported a gross transaction value (GTV) of IDR 116.5

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

Many leading tech companies — including Google (Checkout), Yahoo (PayDirect), and Microsoft (Passport) — tried to compete with PayPal to gain a foothold in the online payments market, but ultimately shuttered these product lines in the mid-2000s. In late 2019, Stripe entered into the provision of financial services products to customers.

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If Facebook Wants To Be WeChat, Why Did It Launch Libra?

PYMNTS

And all of them – developed and developing – use regulated rails, bank accounts and compliant fiat currencies to remove user confusion and friction, establish trust, enable merchant acceptance and accelerate market entry and scale. Just like WeChat did. Of Messenger and Libra.

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