Category: Industry Insights

Can You Pay With DuitNow’s QR Abroad?

In today’s evolving digital landscape, the financial services industry is undergoing a significant transformation. Accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, we will be seeing a 42% increase in global volume for cashless payments from 2025 onwards. As such, we’re witnessing traditional modes of payment being replaced by innovative solutions. One such development is cross-border QR payments […]

3 Factors Affecting Your Transaction Success Rates

In this exciting era of digital payments, it’s evident how much has changed over the years. We’ve seen payment methods evolve tremendously and with that, there is a term you should know: transaction success rate. This term is a huge deal and rightly so. “Why?” you might ask. Because it affects how your business gets […]

Subscription Business Model: How It Can Provide Consistent Revenue

Picture this: you’re scrolling through your Instagram feed and you come across an ad. It’s for a streaming service with the latest series or a monthly box with curated products. Sounds intriguing? Well, that’s just the tip of the iceberg that is subscriptions. In Malaysia, the subscription business model is gaining momentum, capturing the attention […]

All You Need to Know: Digital Payment Methods in Malaysia

In today’s fast-paced world of all things e-commerce, it’s crucial for businesses to offer a variety of digital payment methods to stay ahead of the game. Why? Due to ever-evolving technology, fierce competition in the market, and meeting your customer’s expectations. After all, who wants to deal with complicated payment processes?  It’s about making it […]

Curlec Announces New Integration Partnership, Becomes The First Payments Provider To Offer Direct Debit & FPX to Xero Users In Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, 1 February 2023 – Malaysia’s leading payments platform, Curlec has announced its partnership with global small business finance platform, Xero to help empower businesses of all sizes to automate and reconcile their payment collections and take control of their cash flow.   Curlec will be the first payments provider to offer bank-to-bank payment options such as […]

Curlec + Xero: When Payments Meet Bookkeeping

We’ve all been there. You sell a product or service, raise an invoice, and then, you have to wait for the customer to pay. There is nothing more frustrating.  Cash flow problems are common concerns for businesses, big or small. And as business owners, when you don’t have an efficient process in place to get […]

Curlec Year In Review: New Investors, New Features, New Beginnings! 🚀

In a blink of an eye, 2022 is coming to an end. Where did time go? We at Curlec have been busy. After a whirlwind 2021 that brought us the new normal, 2022 was a year of new beginnings. New investors, new features, new products – all with the aim to support and propel the […]

Curlec Is One Of Five Startups Across APAC Selected For Visa’s First Accelerator Program

Curlec has been selected as one of five inaugural cohort of startups to be part of Visa’s first ever Accelerator Program in Asia Pacific this 2021. Over the next four to six months, the participating startups will focus on creating defined commercial opportunities to collaborate on new payment solutions with Visa and its extensive network […]

Why You Should Be Billing Your Customers On A Recurring Basis

From fresh flowers to coffee machines and yes – even cars, recurring billing has come a long way from its traditional use cases of utilities and rent. At the heart of it lies a shift in consumer buying habits. Hunting for overall experience, rather than just product. Becoming a user, but not necessarily an owner.  […]

Payment Trends On The Horizon For 2021

We get it – having to stay afloat as a business during downturns like this is a feat in itself, what more having to stay on top of your payment game. As we find ourselves easing into 2021, we’ve compiled four payment trends we expect to see in Malaysia’s payments landscape for the year ahead […]