Tagged: kakao pay

September 22, 2026 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s consumer finance platforms have taken another step toward tokenized money. Kakao Pay and Kakao Bank have signed a memorandum of understanding with Fireblocks to study secure digital asset infrastructure in the country, with stablecoins at the center of the work. The non-binding pact,… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 10:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ComfortDelGro Taxi and Alipay+ recently announced a partnership that enables mobile payments from Malaysia and South Korea, “namely the Touch ‘n Go eWallet and Kakao Pay, to be accepted as cashless payment options in all its Comfort and CityCab taxis.” Users of these mobile wallets… Read More

July 5, 2021 @ 12:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kakao Pay, a Fintech division of Kakao, which is the South Korean company that operates the KakaoTalk messenger app, reveals that it has submitted its initial public offering (IPO) filing. The company intends to secure as much 1.632 trillion Korean won (app. $1.4 billion) in… Read More