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The MAS Electronic Payment System, or MEPS in short, is an SGD-only online interbank payment and fund transfer system in Singapore. [1] It went online in July 1998, and is owned and operated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The irrevocable transfer of funds and the real-time nature of transfers are some of the key features of MEPS.
PayNow is a near-instant real-time payment system developed by Association of Banks in Singapore. [1] The interface facilitates inter-bank peer-to-peer and person-to-merchant transactions. The system is supported by all major Singaporean banks and is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and works by transferring funds between ...
An M-PESA payment register at a Kenyan coffee shop. M-PESA was first launched by the Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom, where Vodafone is technically a minority shareholder (40%), in March 2007. [17] M-PESA quickly captured a significant market share for cash transfers, and grew to 17 million subscribers by December 2011 in Kenya alone. [1]
NETS operates Singapore's national debit scheme enabling customers of DBS Bank, POSB, HSBC, Maybank, OCBC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, CIMB and UOB to make payments using their physical/contactless ATM cards or mobile devices at more than 120,000 acceptance points in Singapore including major retailers, food courts, hawker centres, convenience stores and supermarkets.
The Payment Services Act 2019 (PS Act) is a statute of the Parliament of Singapore that provides a framework for the regulation of payment systems and payment service providers in Singapore. [1] According to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) the PS Act provides for regulatory certainty and consumer safeguards, while encouraging ...
The Monetary Authority of Singapore or (MAS), is the central bank and financial regulatory authority of Singapore.It administers the various statutes pertaining to money, banking, insurance, securities and the financial sector in general, as well as currency issuance and manages the foreign-exchange reserves.
CEPAS, the Specification for Contactless e-Purse Application, is a Singaporean specification for an electronic money smart card.The specification was prepared by the Cards and Personnel Identification Technical Committee (CPITC), under the purview of the IT Standard Committee of Singapore (ITSCS).
Singapore was the first city in the world to implement an electronic road toll collection system for purposes of congestion pricing. [6] Its use has inspired other cities around the world in adopting a similar system, particularly London 's Congestion Charge Zone (CCZ) , Stockholm 's congestion tax , [ 7 ] and New York City 's Central Business ...