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Ride-hailing company Grab is expanding its mobile wallet services in the Philippines following receipt of an e-money license from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

Statistics from the central bank revealed that more than 98% of transactions in the Philippines still happen in cash, whereas 86% of people remain unbanked. Cash handling and services also cost millions of pesos a year…

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), parent company of disruptive Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm, is reportedly in the early stages of negotiations over a potential acquisition of India’s largest cable operator Hathaway Cable & Datacom.

Reliance Industries is evaluating pursuing the acquisition in order to accelerate the launch of its planned GigaFiber FTTH service,  the…

The Philippines government has approached Vodafone Group with the possibility of entering the market as the nation’s third telco.

An official from the Department of Budget and Management announced at a press briefing that he had met with Vodafone officials during a visit to London last week to inform them of the government’s plan to introduce a third market entrant to break up the…

Uzbekistan wants to reform its power utility to change the way it trades energy with its four neighbors.

Singtel and Thai mobile affiliate AIS have jointly launched a cross-border mobile payment alliance known as VIA, introducing Singapore-Thailand cross border mobile payments in collaboration with Thailand’s Kasikornbank.

Through the collaboration, Singtel and AIS will offer QR code based mobile payments through their respective mobile wallets - Singtel Dash, as well as AIS Global Pay…