Tagged: paynet

August 30, 2023 @ 8:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

More Asian travelers to Malaysia will enjoy a seamless digital payment experience at over 1.8 million merchants across the country while Malaysian residents will be able to pay with e-wallets of their home country abroad, thanks to a MOU signed recently between Payments Network Malaysia… Read More

August 13, 2023 @ 5:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UnionPay International (UPI) and Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd, or PayNet, Malaysia’s national payments network jointly signed an agreement in Shanghai in order to support “the cross-border QR code linkage and enable the full acceptance of the UnionPay App (Chinese-mainland, Hong Kong and Macao versions)… Read More

January 8, 2023 @ 5:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Malaysia-based payments network and infrastructure provider PayNet has recently appointed Gary Yeoh as the firm’s new Chief Commercial Officer. The appointment to oversee PayNet’s commercial operations comes after quite a notable year for Yeoh, who is reportedly a veteran of the Malaysian payments sector and… Read More

December 11, 2022 @ 9:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Boost, which claims to be the leading regional full-spectrum fintech arm of Axiata, and Payments Network Malaysia (PayNet), the national retail payments network infrastructure announced that Boost merchants in Malaysia can now “accept cross-border payments from Thailand tourists via its DuitNow QR.” This new feature… Read More

February 22, 2022 @ 8:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Payments Network Malaysia (PayNet) has launched the Fintech ePayment Accelerator Programme, an initiative that aims to support and advance startups focused on the digital payments sector in and around Malaysia. The three-month initiative focuses on ideas and solutions that can help accelerate the adoption of… Read More

November 30, 2021 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London’s Clear Junction has announced that it’s offering solutions to Paynet which aim to support its vision for cross-border payments services from European markets into Moldova. Paynet is reportedly the first digital wallet platform operating in Moldova. It runs one of the most extensive payments… Read More

November 14, 2021 @ 8:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and Payments Network Malaysia (PayNet) will reportedly be taking part in Project Nexus by working cooperatively with various partners on a proof-of-concept (PoC) to enhance the cost and speed of performing international payments. Project Nexus will aim to look into the… Read More

October 18, 2021 @ 9:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB), the wholly-owned unit trust management firm of Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB), revealed earlier this week the introduction of its mobile registration and online onboarding solution (e-KYC), along with a goal-based investing feature via the myASNB mobile app. The digital onboarding… Read More

April 13, 2021 @ 1:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Malaysia’s PayNet, the national payments network and shared central infrastructure for that nation’s capital markets, has decided to work with FassPay, a subsidiary of Soft Space, which will be a third-party acquirer for MyDebit, the country’s local debit card scheme. This new appointment should allow… Read More

March 27, 2021 @ 7:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital wallet provider Boost recently revealed that it’s now a part of the PayNet Real Time Retail Payment Platform (RPP). Boost confirmed that it will be adopting DuitNow QR (beginning on March 26, 2021). DuitNow QR is the national QR code standard used in Malaysia…. Read More