Issue No 131
Facebook’s much-talked about digital currency, Libra, leads the headline for this issue. While in another story, we discuss the continuous decline of bank branches across selected markets in the Middle East and Asia Pacific. For the Country Profile section, we take a look at Vietnam as banks in the country continue to dominate the retail finance services market. In other pages, Jeremy Tan, CEO of Liquid Group, talks about the next wave of mobile payments, digital apps and platforms across different sectors, noting that “Today, the technology cost and barrier are completely gone and 20 years from now, all payments will be done on mobile.”
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