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During the opening keynote plenary, State Bank of Vietnam, MasterCard, Bank of Thailand, Legislative Yuan Republic of China shared their cashless strategies for the future and explored policy response towards cashless society.
Vietnam and the Philippines. Over at the E-Commerce and Retail University, visitors gained insights into how to set up their e-commerce operation and practical tips in retailing in the digital age.
Exhibiting excellence
Additionally, more than 150 exhibitors showcased their products and services at the event, including enterprise productivity solution provider Botbot. AI“ Our participation in Seamless Asia 2018 underscores our commitment in helping enterprises reshape their back-office operational strategies and approaches, to not just cope but excel in an oversaturated and commerce environment,” said Chelsea Sim, chief of staff at Botbot. AI.
According to the event organiser, exhibiting partners made sales, demonstrated new products and traded business cards with thousands of attendees from across the region. Solutions on offer ranged from payments and commerce platforms to payment gateways and processors, to point-of-sale( POS) terminals, and mobile payments and payment security, as well as from customer relationship management( CRM), marketing and loyalty to data and retail analytics, m-commerce, and much more.
At the event, Fintech company MatchMove unveiled the latest feature in its proprietary Banking
Wallet OS, which uses facial biometric technology to instantly verify user identity. By seamlessly incorporating biometric verification, Optical Character Recognition( OCR) and document authentication into the user signup process, MatchMove’ s payments platform is said to provide a less intrusive and highly responsive user onboarding experience. And clients who use its Banking Wallet OS to give their users co-branded( physical and / or virtual) payment cards can expect this technology to enhance user experience and strengthen security and compliance checks for their digital payments, according to the company.
Ashley Koh, senior vice-president and general manager at MatchMove, said:“ In today’ s app world, customers and businesses are impatient to find good payments solutions while cybercriminals are proliferating and regulators are demanding more stringent checks. As an innovative digital payments solutions provider to enable facial biometric technology, we are well ahead of the curve to embrace a seamless user onboarding experience. We will continue to innovate and fulfil our mission of improving the quality of lives as we expand our footprint to become the world’ s largest and safest mover of digital money.”
To identify and reward companies and individuals who have demonstrated an unparalleled ability to succeed, continually set standards of excellence
With more than 5,000 leaders from across payments, banking, e-commerce and retail converging for two days of networking, learning and deal-making, this year‘ s Seamless Asia continued to provide a platform to discuss the future of commerce in Asia.
and who will be the future stars of the industry, the Seamless Asia Awards was held to celebrate achievements across payments, e-commerce and retail experience.
Organised by business media company Terrapin Holdings, Seamless Asia is set to return next year. ra
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