Recent Blogs
December 8, 2017
5 Reasons why Small Businesses should go Cashless At FOMO Pay, we often receive queries from businesses on why they should adopt mobile payments and join the cashless society. As a mobile payments company, we have the necessary experience and expertise on the ins and outs of the industry. Even then, we together with other payment companies sometimes find it difficult to persuade some businesses, especially SMEs, to adopt mobile payments. The reasons for this are varied. For some, it is the technological hurdle that business owners have to overcome. For others, they believe that mobile payments currently do not […]
November 29, 2017
FOMO Pay chosen to join Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator For over 40 years, Oracle Corporation has been operating at the bleeding edge of computer technology. The company specializes in developing and marketing database software and technology and enterprise software products. In 2015, Oracle was named by PWC as the second largest software maker by revenue. In April 2016, Oracle announced that it had opened a six-month Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator program in Singapore. The program has an especial focus on reimagining enterprise innovation through collaborations with start-ups that foster co-development and co-innovation. The program will be run by members of […]
November 22, 2017
Payments Council endorses Singapore Quick Response Code Specifications for electronic payments Singapore, 20 November 2017… The Payments Council has endorsed the specification for a common Singapore Quick Response Code (SG QR) that can accept electronic payments by both domestic and international payment schemes, e-wallets, and banks. The new SG QR was developed by an industry taskforce co-led by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Infocomm Media Development Authority. What is SG QR? The first of its kind globally, the SG QR includes protocols customised for Singapore, building on the QR specifications of EMVCo, a consortium of international payment schemes. […]
November 20, 2017
FOMO Pay Won This Year’s MAS FinTech Awards in SME Category Singapore, 16 November 2017 The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) today awarded FOMO Pay MAS FinTech Awards in SME Category at this year’s Singapore FinTech Awards. Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman, MAS, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, presented the awards to our CEO, Mr. Louis Liu at the ceremony that was attended by more than 3,000 attendees. Organised as part of the Singapore FinTech Festival, the FinTech Awards recognizes innovative FinTech solutions that have been implemented by FinTech start-ups, financial institutions and technology […]
November 2, 2017
FOMO Pay selected to join Unilever Foundry 30 SEAA Community On 13th September 2017, Unilever announced that it would be accepting 30 promising startups to participate in its Foundry30 SEAA programme. The startups are selected based on their ability to demonstrate a unique and exciting point of difference, and vision of positively creating technological, consumer and social change within the South East Asia region. With a population of over 600 million people, the region was chosen by the global conglomerate based on its fast growing internet market and rising middle class, which makes the region such an exciting hotspot for […]
November 1, 2017
Ride-hailing company Grab officially launched its in-store mobile payments method today, marking its biggest move yet outside of the transportation segment. FOMO Pay as the pioneer channel partner will add Grab Pay into its existing portfolio including WeChat Pay, NETSPay, UnionPay, Baidu Wallet, BestPay, etc. As reported by Tech in Asia, Grab Pay is “designed to be scalable and flexible to work with other QR code-based mobile payments systems in Singapore, thus facilitating a collective effort to move Singapore towards a cashless society.” This could be a huge step towards a cashless society under SGQR Taskforce and Singapore’ Smart Nation vision, FOMO Pay […]