Instant Payments Explained: What Real-Time Really Means for Merchants in 2026
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Instant payments have moved from “emerging” to expected in a surprisingly short amount of time. In many markets, customers now…
Why Southeast Asia Still Can’t Scale Payments as One Market (and What Merchants Must Do Instead in 2026)
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If you’ve spent any time looking at expansion decks for Southeast Asia, the narrative is always the same: 680 million…
Designing Payments for the Gulf Consumer: Why Middle East Checkout Behaviour Defies Global Assumptions in 2026
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For many global merchants, checkout design is built on a familiar assumption: cards first, everything else as an optimisation layer.…
Asia’s Payment Fragmentation Problem: Why Merchants Must Design Country-by-Country Checkout Strategies in 2026
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For many global merchants, “Asia” is still treated as a single expansion decision. One checkout flow, one set of payment…
Japan’s Long Goodbye to Cash: How New Digital Payment Policies Are Forcing Merchants to Rethink Acceptance in 2026
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Japan has been saying goodbye to cash for years, just not loudly. Unlike markets where governments force abrupt transitions, Japan’s…

