Malaysia is in one of the world’s fastest-rising digital markets, but payment fragmentation still holds businesses especially SMEs from expanding into ASEAN. Different settlement times, extra steps for compliance and manual reconciliation add real cost to doing business across borders.

Lee Zian Wei, Chief Strategy Officer, Xendit Malaysia and Jayson Poon, Country Manager, Xendit Malaysia share perspectives on how Malaysia can move toward reliable, fast and consistent regional payments; and what that could mean for our competitiveness in an ASEAN digital economy projected to pass USD 1 trillion by 2030.