In about 4 yrs: Retail payments across Asean via mobile numbers
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OVER the next four years or so, Singapore will work with other Asean countries to link up their real-time payment systems to enable small retail payments using just mobile numbers, with the link-up between Singapore and Thailand expected to be completed by the middle of next year, said Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) chief Ravi Menon.
But with large cross-border business payments still cumbersome and costly, a new form of cryptocurrency known as stablecoins, as popularised by Facebook's Libra, is a "competing potential solution", said Mr Menon.
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