Author: Leslie Choo, Managing Director- Asia & Japan/Korea, ACI Worldwide

For the global banking and finance industry, Southeast Asia (SEA) has established itself as a key region in terms of innovation and growth opportunities in real-time payments. Underlying this is the fact that SEA’s internet economy is projected to triple in size by 2025 and reach US$300 billion, making it one of the fastest growing digital economies globally. Taken as a single entity, SEA also represents one of the world’s five largest economies, but of course it doesn’t have the deep integration within the bloc that benefits larger economies, such as India or China. Neither does the SEA region benefit…