Cards & Payments

Citi launches Virtual Card Accounts in 6 Asian markets

Including Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea.

This is how Display Cards revolutionize bank cards in Asia

Earlier this year, Standard Chartered Bank launched a novel display card solution in Singapore. While the card looks and functions like a regular...

HSBC and ICICI boosting Indian credit card base

This is their first expansion since 2008-09.

BPI introduces low interest credit cards

Claims 2% finance charge is the market’s lowest.

How Asian banks can migrate efficiently to EMV chip-based cards

Those of us who closely follow developments in the banking industry would know that the Association of Banks Singapore mandated last year that banks...

RMB now ranks 13th in the world payments currency list

It has already overtaken the Russian Rouble.

See what Maybank Singapore's new Manchester United Platinum Debit Card offers fans

Cardholders get 20% off tickets to the Man Utd Museum and Stadium Tour.

Visa launches Visa Ready Partner Program

Mobile network operators can now gain access to Visa IP.

Why China is the stalwart in Asia's cards and payments industry

For financial institutions and customer-centric executives, it has never been more important to focus on the rapidly developing cards and payments...

Zeus Trojan returns to victimize Japanese banks

The Trojan that began stealing banking information in 2007 resurfaces in Japan.

RMB credit cards surge highest in Macao

Macao's number of RMB cards out 648,881 personal credit cards surged by 39 percent from a year earlier.

Vietnamese oppose plan to pay using bank cheques

Government wants payment via banks to create a non-cash economy.

South Korea's credit card spending up 13.5% in 2012

An increase in employment and consumer prices increased South Korea's credit card.

Banks to answer for fake ATM notes in rural India

India wants to change the law that makes the holder of counterfeit currency responsible.