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    • Why SWIFT Remains Indispensable For Cross-Border Payments
      24 May 2023—Forbes
      The paramountcy of the SWIFT interbank messaging network to cross-border payments can be measured in many ways, and SWIFT itself likes to do so with its data on transaction numbers and amounts. For instance, as of December 2022, Swift had recorded an average of 44.8 million FIN messages (payments and securities transactions) per day during the year, a year on year rise of 6.6%. And of course, SWIFT serves as the primary interbank messaging service for financial institutions globally. It works...
    • Big Tech Makes A Play For Japan’s Fragmented Payments Market
      24 Feb 2023—Forbes
      Japan’s affinity for cash has made it a relative laggard in adopting digital payments, especially compared to neighbors like Korea and China. Japan only broke the 30% milestone for cashless payments in 2021, partially due to the pandemic. In contrast, Korea was almost 94% cashless in 2020, while China was not far behind at 83%, according to the World Economic Forum. That said, given Japan’s large market size of 126 million and unhurried adoption of digital payments, there remains ample...
    • Why Meta Is Missing The Boat On Asia’s Fintech Boom
      15 Feb 2023—Forbes
      Meta makes almost all of its revenue from advertising. The company has long known it needs a new engine of revenue growth, but it waited too long to introduce payments and explore fintech in general. In Asia, where fintech growth has generally been much faster than in Meta’s home market of the United States, the company has faced market barriers in some cases and intense competition overall. At this point, it may be able to gain some payments market share in certain Asian countries with...
    • The Future Of Payments In An AI-Enabled Future
      31 Jan 2023—Forbes
      Unless you’ve been in a cave or on a beach over the past month (cue revenge travel meme), you’ll no doubt have heard of ChatGPT, the chatbot on steroids from the company OpenAI that is now fielding tender investment offers at a valuation of US$29 billion. Not bad for a 7-year-old start-up, although some may argue, somewhat slow by recent silicon valley standards... More impactful than the funding itself, are the implications for the financial industry. Indeed, if anything, ChatGPT’s response...
    • The Future Of Fintech In Asia
      29 Dec 2022—Forbes
      Although the title sounds grandiose, it is not hyperbole to say that Fintech is as a cross-roads in Asia. For the past few years, low-interest rates and asset bubbles have driven fintech valuations across the globe higher, and Asia is no exception. However, inflation, rising interest rates, and VCs’ shift to ‘risk-off’ investment strategies brings pause to what has been an incredible run-up in all things Fintech including crypto. In a recent report from Kapronasia and Elevandi, we look at how...

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