Country report

Country report · 03. July 2020

Cashless payment experiencing sharp growth in Vietnam

THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC HAS CAUSED VIETNAMESE PEOPLE TO CHANGE THEIR CASH USE HABITS. BESIDES, DISCOUNT POLICIES OF ONLINE PAYMENT CHANNELS HAVE ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE STRONG GROWTH IN CASHLESS PAYMENT ACTIVITIES. As of May 2020, there had been 34 companies licensed to provide intermediary payment services in Vietnam, of which more than 20 are e-wallets associated with an active bank account. The frequency of use and average daily spending value via e-wallets are recorded to be really high....

OpenCorporates: "US Company Data: State of the Nation 2020"

How accessible is official company register data in the US? Executive summary ● The US is the most important and vibrant market in the world – powered by the activity of millions of companies. Yet the fundamental data about these companies – what companies exist, when they were incorporated, who is connected with them – is very hard to access as data, despite it being public information, collected by the States. ● In today's data-driven world, this dataset is fundamental to almost...