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Indonesia: Consumers Prefer Mobile Banking, E-Wallet For Transactions: Populix Survey

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Research firm Populix has released its latest survey on consumers’ preference for banking and e-wallet apps which found that 64 respondents own banking and financial services apps on their mobile devices.  They also found that 91 percent of respondents own mobile banking apps while 84 percent already have an e-wallet account, and 33 percent have installed digital […]

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Thailand: Weak baht ‘driven by external factors’

Thailand’s weakening baht is being driven down by external factors and the central bank is closely monitoring the situation, Finance minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith said, with the currency trading at its weakest level in more than five years against the dollar. There were no large capital outflows from the debt market, Mr Arkhom told reporters on […]

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Philippines: Inflation climbs to 6.1% in June

MANILA, Philippines — The country’s headline inflation rate rose to 6.1 percent in June, the highest in more than three years, driven by rising food prices and transport costs, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said. In a briefing yesterday, national statistician Dennis Mapa said the 6.1 percent June inflation matched the rate in November 2018, […]

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