Data from the State Bank of Vietnam shows that the number of non-cash transactions has been on a rise in Vietnam during the pandemic.

COVID-19 has dramatically increased reliance on real-time and digital payments, leading to a 41 percent surge in real-time payment transactions from 2019 to 2020.

Notwithstanding border restrictions, the region’s digital payments ecosystem is growing as countries collaborate to connect their domestic payment systems.

The region’s financial institutions and merchants have needed to work swiftly to support unprecedented levels of digital payments.

Qi Card mobile money offering provides Iraqis with digital means for safe and secure financial transactions.

As governments issue movement restrictions to help curb COVID-19, businesses accelerated their digital transformation which includes, among others, digital payments.

With the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the need for new and evolving digital payment services has become even more urgent.

Decentralized peer-to-peer crypto trading platform CryptoLocally and blockchain-powered on-demand digital finance and payment platform, Sesacash, will be working together to address the many challenges confronting African nations in the financial sector.

50 nations promised cash to fight Covid-19, but few, like India and Bangladesh, are doing it right. India’s trinity of Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, and mobile communications — or JAM — can work wonders if it is used extensively to reform citizen–state engagement.

Paytm, India’s largest digital payments and financial services company has entered into a strategic partnership with Indian Oil Corporation Limited to enable digital transactions across its fueling stations as well as LPG cylinder delivery ecosystem.