Recent Blogs
May 16, 2017
Homegrown mobile payment startup, FOMO Pay, has been featured in several Hong Kong media outlets including Oriental Daily News (东方日报). This came after FOMO Pay was shortlisted as a finalist in DBS Accelerator (星展創投計劃), a venture capital program held in Hong Kong. Mainland Chinese consumers are offered a variety of ways to pay for goods and services using their mobile phones, such as WeChat Pay, AliPay and Baidu Wallet. While it is extremely convenient to use mobile payment options for transactions within China, these customers often face difficulties using the same methods to pay overseas. Reason being, many merchants overseas […]
May 16, 2017
China’s Golden Week (黄金周) is an annual national holiday to celebrate the founding of the People’s Republic of China. This year, the holiday was held from the 1st to 7th October. During this time, locals often take the chance to travel, sending waves of Chinese tourists to nearby cities and countries around the world. The rise in Chinese tourist numbers is especially noticeable in popular locations such as Japan, Thailand and South Korea. Figures from the Civil Aviation Administration of China showed that the number of Chinese passengers who travelled by air during the Golden Week holiday totaled to 9.96 million […]
May 11, 2017
China’s mobile payment sector is the largest and the fastest growing mobile payment market in the world. The total number of mobile payment users in China is expected to more than double from 80 million this year to 194 million in 2020, amounting to a total spend of S$365 million in 2020. This is largely due to the increase in smartphone user penetration rate, greater access to high-speed mobile networks and better mobile payment services that cater to the needs of the Chinese mobile buyers. Dominated by market leaders Alipay and WeChat Pay, the Chinese mobile payment sector is a […]
May 1, 2017
FOMO Pay, the first authorized WeChat Pay and Baidu Wallet partner in Southeast Asia, is a winner of The Red Herring Asia Top 100 award. Since its inception in 1996, the Top 100 award celebrates the most exciting startups and private ventures in Asia, Europe and North America. Competition is tough, with hundreds of candidates from each continent vying for the prestigious award. Out of the 100 companies chosen in Asia, only 10 other Singapore startups made it to the list. The selection process involves 3 steps, and companies are graded based on more than 20 criteria, including technological advantage, […]
April 21, 2017
In today’s digital age, the services provided via the Internet have become so advanced. Instant messaging, Internet banking, e-learning… you name it, the Internet probably has it. With FOMO Pay, you can take it up a notch by surprising your loved ones with a unique gift – fresh Musang (also known as Mao Shan Wang 猫山王 or D197) durians. Musang durians are brought in from Malaysia. Known for its bittersweet taste, creamy texture and golden yellow flesh, it is the most desired and expensive durian variety. The durian peak season in Singapore is typically from June to August, and […]
April 11, 2017
FOMO Pay is honoured to be the exclusive online voting partner for Sing! China (中国新歌声)’s Singapore auditions this year and Miss Chinese Cosmos Pageant Singapore (中华小姐环球大赛新加坡赛区) 2016. Aside from designing the voting sites, FOMO Pay also provided technical support and facilitated back-end payment collection from votes. With FOMO Pay, voters got to select from a variety of payment methods – Visa/MasterCard, Union Pay, WeChat Scan and Pay and Alipay, allowing the events to successfully target both local and Chinese consumers. Sing! China (中国新歌声) 2016 Voting site: https://www.2016chinasupervocalsg.com (Voting has ended.) Chinese reality television shows have been gaining traction in Singapore, […]