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In April 2009, the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) was formed to integrate all the payment mechanisms in India and make them uniform for all retail payments. By March 2011, RBI found out that in India, only six non-cash transactions were executed each year by individual citizens while 10 million retailers accepted card-based payments.
History. The company was launched in December 2000 as Smart Money powered by Smart e-Money, Inc., in cooperation with 1st e-Bank (formerly PDCP Bank; now BDO Unibank) and Mastercard. It was claimed that it was the world’s first card linked to a wireless phone and was marketed by Smart Communications as one of the biggest innovations in finance.
Singapore billion dollar money laundering case. On 15 August 2023, the Singapore Police Force conducted an operation against money laundering. [ 1] It is the biggest money laundering case in Singapore, and among the biggest in the world, [ 2] involving assets worth 3 billion Singapore dollars. [ 3]
GCash is still widely used payment method for physical outlet and offline-related services in the Philippines, particularly retail and events. [8] As of 2022, there were an estimated 58 million active e-wallet users in the Philippines, with this number expected to reach 81 million by 2025. [citation needed]
National net wealth, also known as national net worth, is the total sum of the value of a country's assets minus its liabilities. It refers to the total value of net wealth possessed by the residents of a state at a set point in time. [ 1 ]
The Singapore Government launched CEPAS 2.0 (Contactless e-Purse Application), a Singaporean specification of a common standard for electronic money smart card, in 2009. The transit market was opened to more issuers, enabling NETS to participate and subsequently launch the NETS FlashPay card on 9 October 2009.
The Philippine peso has since traded versus the U.S. dollar in a range of ₱24–46 from 1993 to 1999, ₱40–56 from 2000 to 2009, and ₱40–54 from 2010 to 2019. The previous 1903–1934 definition of a peso as 12.9 grains of 0.9 gold (or 0.0241875 XAU) is now worth ₱2,266.03 based on gold prices as of November 2021.
QR Ph. QR Ph (officially the National QR Code Standard) is the standardized quick-response code system adopted in the Philippines, which is based on the Europay-Mastercard-VISA (EMV) standard. It serves as a swift and secure payment method for customers of both participating banks and non-bank electronic money issuers (EMI) in the country.