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.

As instant noodle sales bounce back in Vietnam, major food makers continue to employ different strategies to diversify income and capture new growth.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on March 23 that the Nexus Project prototype of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has successfully connected with the payment systems of Europe, Malaysia and Singapore.

Standard Chartered Vietnam today announced the launch of its 24/7 instant interbank transfer service on SCPay, its new cloud-native global payments platform, allowing both corporate and individual clients to send and receive funds to and from external bank accounts anytime anywhere including on weekends and public holidays. The service is applicable to beneficiary/ remitter accounts of National Payment Services Vietnam (NAPAS) network member banks.

Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) and Instanta Sp. on September 29 inaugurated ILD Coffee Vietnam, a joint venture freeze-dried instant coffee facility located in Binh Duong province, with an annual production capacity of 5,600 metric tonness of freeze-dried instant coffee.

Trung Nguyen Legend, dubbed a pioneer in the Vietnamese caffeine revolution by Discovery, has launched its G7 Gold products. As the first generation of instant coffee combines the flavours of the world's three coffee civilisations, Trung Nguyen Legend affirms its innovation efforts.

Binh Dinh Investment Promotion Centre announced on September 7 that the province will expedite a premium freeze-dried instant coffee project with an investment surpassing $80 million.

Dutch Louis Dreyfus Company Asia Pte. Ltd. (LDC) announced that the company has signed a joint venture with Instanta Sp. z o.o., a Polish private label coffee company, to build and operate a freeze-dried instant coffee plant.