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Singapore Fintech Fest showcases innovations in payments

The Singapore Fintech Festival yesterday played host to a quartet of distinct cross-border and digital currency payment initiatives, drawing in United Overseas bank, Grab, Ripple and the country's central bank.

15 November 2018

Company announcement

UOB and Grab form strategic alliance

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) and Grab today announced they have entered into a strategic alliance to accelerate the use of digital services among ASEAN’s growing base of digital consumers.

12 November 2018

News

GrabPay launches in Thailand with investment from Kasikornbank

Thailand's Kasikornbank has made a strategic $50 million investment in ride-hailing app Grab as part of plans to launch the company's GrabPay wallet in the cash happy Thai market.

08 November 2018

News

Ride-hailing app Grab launches prepaid Mastercard

Southeast Asian ride-hailing app Grab is pushing further into payments through the launch of a prepaid Mastercard card.

25 October 2018

Company announcement/payments

Microsoft to make strategic investment in Grab

Microsoft Corp. and Grab, the leading on-demand transportation, mobile payments and online-to-offline services platform in Southeast Asia, announced a strategic partnership that will transform the delivery of digital services and mobility in the region by leveraging Microsoft’s world-class expertise in machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

09 October 2018

Company announcement

Grab secures e-money licence in tthe Philippines

Grab, the Philippines’ and Southeast Asia’s leading Online-to-Offline (O2O) platform, today announced it will rapidly expand the GrabPay mobile wallet in the Philippines.

27 September 2018

News

WeChat Pay launches in Malaysia

WeChat, China's most popular social media app, has launched its digital payments service, WeChat Pay, in Malaysia, marking its first product to be released in Asia outside of China and Hong Kong.

21 August 2018

Company announcement

Grab to convert mobile payment platform into 'SuperApp'

Grab today announced GrabPlatform, as part of its open platform strategy to build Southeast Asia’s first everyday superapp.

13 July 2018

News

Ride-hailing app Grab partners Maybank for mobile wallet launch

South-East Asian ride-hailing firm Grab is teaming up with Malaysia's biggest bank, Maybank, to drive adoption of its new mobile wallet.

22 May 2018

News

Ride hailing app Grab launches financial services unit

South East Asian ride-hailing firm Grab has moved deeper into financial services with the launch of a dedicated unit and the introduction of micro-loans and insurance products.

13 March 2018

Company announcement

Grab signs multi-year MoU with Samsung

Grab, the leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform in Southeast Asia, and Samsung Electronics, one of the world’s largest electronics companies, today announced that they have signed a multi-year MOU to drive digital inclusion in Southeast Asia.

01 February 2018

Company announcement

Singapore's oBike integrates with GrabPay

oBike, Singapore’s first homegrown station-less smart bike-sharing company, today announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Grab.

22 January 2018