e-Commerce, Mobile Transactions and Data Wars
Amazon's Indian Winter
Amazon India's costly consumer-driven venture is floundering on the rocks of the country's exceptionalism, its democratic aspirations swayed by the pressure of its immense population and the weight of its troubled history
Non-Cash China, a mobile frontrunner
Reaching 802 million people for mobile payments in 2020, a 50% surge over 2017, and third party transactions adding up to $34 trillion, China's digital revolution portends major changes in retail and in finance - in China and globally
Amazon goes local
The US tech firms have been putting their trust in a business model guaranteeing identical levels of service across the world but their global offering could be clashing with local expectations, as Amazon's venture in India might suggest
South East Asia - the 'Jewel in the Crown' of another Empire ?
Commerce deserves careful scrutiny as the advance scouting party of a much larger enterprise, the vast infrastructure project staged and controlled by China's Belt and Road Initiative
The reinvention of Rakuten
Building on the strength of its market place, Rakuten is broadening the international reach of an eco-system of users of digital travel services, finance, IP communication and data driven merchant marketing advisory
Is "a Passage to India" the new frontier?
The size of India’s population (1.35 billion), the number of Internet users (34% of total population - 459 million) and mobile payment expected to be worth approx. $33 billion in 2018, form a unique challenge for e-commerce distribution
Rakuten, a neglected Internet giant
A dismal share price performance since 2015 : material factors of investor disaffection may obscure the strengths Rakuten is demonstrating in finance and its strategy for growth
Upping the ante for the payment gateways
Chinese consumer adoption rates of non-cash transactions are facilitated by the dual strategies of the competing digital wallet behemoths, Alibaba and Tencent, pursuing control of the payment gateways singlemindedly
Pininvest Analysis
Experienced professionals, seeking to combine financial acumen and business expertise