citi hosts e commerce and technology summit 2024

Citi hosts E-Commerce and Technology Summit 2024

Citi held the E-commerce and Technology Summit 2024 on August 21 in Ho Chi Minh City, focusing on sector growth in Southeast Asia.
uob becomes bank of choice for aspiring asean consumers

UOB becomes bank of choice for aspiring ASEAN consumers

United Overseas Bank (UOB), Southeast Asia’s third-largest bank by assets, is tapping into megatrends in the region to drive its growth, positioning itself on capturing the rising ASEAN consumer spend and cross-border payments.
citi spurs cross border payments through digitalisation efforts

Citi spurs cross-border payments through digitalisation efforts

Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions Asia-Pacific has just introduced a new service for institutional clients in the region to speed up cross-border payments.
nium partners with visa for instant money transfers in southeast asia

Nium partners with Visa for instant money transfers in Southeast Asia

Nium, a fast-growing digital cross-border payments platform, is enabling users to make real-time money transfers to Visa debit card holders across Southeast Asia powered by Visa’s real-time push payments solution – Visa Direct.
cambodia thailand launch second phase of cross border qr code payments

Cambodia, Thailand launch second phase of cross-border QR code payments

Cambodia and Thailand on June 6 launched the second phase of cross-border QR code payments, which will allow Thai nationals to shop in Cambodia using the Thai currency of baht and vice versa.
visa contactless payments set record growth as vietnamese embrace cashless payments

Visa contactless payments set record growth as Vietnamese embrace cashless payments

Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments, today announced that Visa contactless transactions grew more than 500 per cent from the first half of 2019 to the first half of 2020. The total value of Visa contactless transactions increased more than 600 per cent over the same period.
cross border ties australian style

Cross-border ties, Australian-style

The relationship between Vietnam and Australia is built on respect, trust, and loyalty. Ranjit Thambyrajah, chairman of cross-border funding and investment arranger Acuity Funding, offers his analysis on the investment relationship between the pair.
cross border e commerce to be boosted

Cross-border e-commerce to be boosted

Commodities export through cross-border sites is expected to create booming development for Vietnam’s e-commerce business.
cross border dealmaking bridging expectations

Cross-border dealmaking bridging expectations

Asia-Pacific and the continent as a whole has been and continues to attract a lot of foreign investment, having cemented its position as the region with the highest growth rates in the world, drawing in foreign investors and private equity funds by the droves.
fdi possible in digital cross border services

FDI possible in digital cross-border services

With regional nations racing to lower their taxes in order to woo more investment, which may dent their coffers, creating feasible policies for collecting taxes is expected to help reach their goals of attracting more high-quality funding.
stakeholders see potential in cross border e commerce

Stakeholders see potential in cross-border e-commerce

Realising the expectation of achieving over $11 billion in e-commerce exports by 2027 is a long-term challenge and requires timely support policies from platforms as well as state management agencies.
tax authorities double down on cross border compliance

Tax authorities double down on cross-border compliance

A fresh tax scheme by the General Department of Taxation is focusing on overseas providers engaging in cross-border activities without a physical presence in the country, helping to alleviate their tax compliance puzzles in Vietnam.
crafting balanced treatment in cross border advertising

Crafting balanced treatment in cross-border advertising

To enforce more rigorous control of cross-border advertising activities, the Vietnamese government issued Decree No.70/2021/ND-CP on July, which took effect on September 15. Thai Gia Han, junior associate at Indochine Counsel, pores over the new conditions applicable to digital advertising in Vietnam and how these impact those who provide cross-border advertising services.
cross border taxation to bolster national budget

Cross-border taxation to bolster national budget

Collecting tax from cross-border platforms as well as people profiting from them is the government’s leading mission in 2021, helping to supplement a sizeable income to the national budget.
vietnamese businesses can succeed through cross border e commerce

Vietnamese businesses can succeed through cross-border e-commerce

With the technological advances made throughout the last few decades, small- and medium-sized local enterprises are profiting from an array of options to promote their products on global e-commerce platforms like Amazon, thus contributing to promoting Vietnamese brands abroad.