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Prime Is The Ticket For Amazon: Prime Tickets On The Way
Prime Is The Ticket For Amazon: Prime Tickets On The Way
November 23, 2016  |  Amazon

Amazon isn’t known to sit idly by when it enters a market, and that could be true of the online ticketing business, which it got...

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Amadeus Brings T&E Services To Asia
Amadeus Brings T&E Services To Asia
November 10, 2016  |  B2B Payments

Amadeus has expanded its corporate travel and expense management solutions into Asia. The company revealed this week that its Cytric Travel & Expense solution is...

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‘Content Is King, But Context Is Queen’ In Asia
‘Content Is King, But Context Is Queen’ In Asia
October 19, 2016  |  Retail

Retail news from the Asia region is full of futuristic virtual reality from VR malls to payments. Alibaba is leading the technology action, and Pos...

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UnionPay’s Chip Card Tech To Be Adopted In Six Asian Countries
UnionPay’s Chip Card Tech To Be Adopted In Six Asian Countries
October 17, 2016  |  International

UnionPay announced Friday (Oct. 14) it launched a chip card technology licensing cooperation with seven members of the Asian Payment Network (APN). In a press...

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Looking East For The New FinTech Revolution
Looking East For The New FinTech Revolution
May 18, 2016  |  Payment Methods

No longer the purview of Western nations, FinTech is gaining traction in the East — from China to India and beyond — and thus is...

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Asian FinTech Investments Quadruple To $4.5B
Asian FinTech Investments Quadruple To $4.5B
March 14, 2016  |  International

As a region, Asia has seen $4.5 billion come into its financial startups from investors across a variety of stripes, which is quadruple the investment...

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Distributing Distributed Ledger And Cross-Border Payments
Distributing Distributed Ledger And Cross-Border Payments
February 01, 2016  |  B2B Payments

In the continued march to bring international payments to a streamlined process, platform remains key and so does geographic focus. Ripple, the startup focused on...

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