A Cashless Future for Myanmar, One Step at a Time
Ms. Kyu Kyu Maw is Assistant General Manager at Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon, in charge of Finance & Administration for the hotel. IN MYANMAR, no one bats an eye when someone takes out a wad of cash from a plastic bag to pay for big ticket items and up till recently, electronic payment cards were …
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Koji Yoshimatsu is Senior Manager for the Member’s Card Management Group, Mori Building Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan. As an urban shopping center operator, I’m always on the lookout for smart and innovative solutions that bring added benefits for everyone, including merchants and consumers. That’s why for the very first time, we installed MasterCard® PayPass™ contactless payment terminals at …
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Oman Moves Towards a Cashless Society
July 26, 2012Muhanna Moosa Baqer, Manager of ePayments, Information Technology Authority in Oman In some parts of the world e-Commerce and e-Payments are mature developments and expected, but elsewhere, like in Oman, the emergence of electronic payments and the benefits it can bring is just beginning to come to fruition. For example, one of the first things we …
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Mobile Innovation: Opening Doors through Financial Inclusion
March 13, 2012Mobile payments is more than a technology platform. It’s a way to enable greater financial inclusion and financial access for the 2.5 billion financially underserved consumers worldwide. I was first stricken with images of poverty as a young child visiting India for the first time. Growing up in Singapore and in close proximity to all kinds of …
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To Transport and Beyond! EZ-Link Contactless in Singapore
January 30, 2012Providing commuters with a quicker and smoother way to board and get moving is where we started. Issued by EZ-Link Pte Ltd, the ez-link card launched in April 2002 as a contactless stored value card primarily used on Singapore’s major public transportation services, such as the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), Light Rail Transit (LRT) and the public …
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