News & Reviews:   BIGPAY

BigPay has announced some changes to the fees for some of its services that would affect Malaysian users. Going into effect this 30 August, the changes include an additional 0.5% fee for overseas spending and up to a 3% fee for credit card top-ups.

BigPay today announced that it is strengthening its partnership with airasia in 2023 to offer users year-long travel discounts starting with 5 per cent off airasia flights. The promo is available when users pay for airasia flights with their BigPay physical or virtual card.

BigPay today announced a new feature called ‘Stashes’, a virtual account that allows users to organise and save money that is separate from their BigPay spending wallet. Moreover, through its ‘Round-up’ feature, users can also opt to round up their transactions to the nearest Ringgit to be automatically put into the Stash.

The digital wallet app AirAsia Pocket, owned by AirAsia, now only allows top-ups using the BigPay cards. Besides that, it has also removed the feature of transferring money to other users and only focuses on top-up and payment features now. It's unsure why the change, but it definitely has set some limitations for the usage.

BigPay today announced the launch of cash pickup services in Indonesia and the Philippines, a new addition to its existing remittance services. Called ‘Cash Pickup’, this new feature allows BigPay users in Malaysia and Singapore to send money to recipients in the aforementioned countries even if the recipients don’t have any bank accounts.

Today, BigPay has announced that DuitNow is available for Malaysian BigPay users across the nation. With that, BigPay users can use DuitNow QR and DuitNow Transfer for all payments. 

By now, most of the youths have already claimed their ePemula credits but we also saw lots of memes on Twitter. On the platform, it seems that many of them are rather disappointed by some of the limitations.

The Finance Ministry (MOF) in a statement yesterday announced that around 2 million Malaysian youths will receive an RM150 e-wallet credit starting this mid-April. Part of the government’s ePemula scheme, those that are eligible include youths aged 18 to 20 as well as full-time students in higher learning institutions.

Furthermore, those eligible would get to enjoy the benefit through one of four e-wallet providers, which are BigPay, GrabPay, ShopeePay and Touch ’n Go. MOF said that the four e-wallet service providers have a network of 1.2 million retailers in Malaysia.

Our government is back with another financial aid with the initiative to encourage cashless spending among youths and full-time students at registered local institutions of higher learning (IPT). Besides that, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) also hopes that it could ease the financial burden of the target group.

Based on a statement by rnggt.com, it seems that companies such as Axiata, BigPay, Grab, and more, will allow the public to take a small loan. But that’s not all, depending on which income group you’re in, you could potentially get reduced interest rates when borrowing less than RM500.