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Digital payments at forefront of S-E Asia's booming Internet economy

By Natalie Choy
The Business Times
Digital payments at forefront of S-E Asia's booming Internet economy
The digital payments market in South-east Asia has hit an inflexion point, and growth in this segment is likely to propel the region's Internet economy in the region to a US$300 billion market by 2025.
4 Oct 2019 - 05:50

Singapore

THE digital payments market in South-east Asia has hit an inflexion point, and growth in this segment is likely to propel the region's Internet economy in the region to a US$300 billion market by 2025.

This is according to the annual e-Conomy report by Google, Temasek

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