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Substack, a service focused on email newsletters, has now confirmed that its service experienced a user data leak to a third party in October 2025. Substack said that among the data affected were email addresses and phone numbers.

At the Singapore FinTech Festival, Mastercard unveiled an ambitious vision to transform e-commerce in the Asia Pacific: making online shopping completely password-free and card-number-free by 2030. While over a third of Mastercard transactions worldwide are already tokenised, realising this vision in the Asia Pacific — projected to exceed USD 7 trillion by 2030 — will require collaboration across the payments ecosystem.

In case you missed it, commuters can now use their debit and credit cards to pay for tokens at selected vending machines. The locations that will support these new payment methods are at the Kajang MRT line, with the Tun Razak Exchange (TRX) and Bukit Bintang stations, said RapidKL.

In case you missed it, there was a new announcement made on the Setel app yesterday. If you go to your inbox, you will read that there will be a 1% convenience fee going live soon.

That's right. Just three days ago, Boost silently introduced a new convenience fee rate change for Boost eWallet users using their credit cards to top up. As it's for Boost eWallet, this does not affect Boost Bank top-ups.

In this short announcement, Grab has quietly put up a notice on a new update for topping up your GrabPay Wallet. Starting from 11 September 2024 onwards, Grab users will be charged a fee if they use their credit cards to top up.

Usually, you need a Touch 'n Go and RFID cards to pass the Penang Bridge. Well, PLUS Malaysia announced that Penang Bridge users can now make toll transactions using bank debit and credit cards. 

Today, our Minister of Transport of Malaysia Anthony Loke addressed the government's project on Open Payment for public transport in Malaysia. As such, they will implement the integration of MyDebit and Credit Cards as additional payment modes to the existing Touch 'n Go or Token cards.

Touch ’n Go (TnG) eWallet has revealed new changes to how it treats reloads using credit cards, whereby customers will be charged a 1% admin fee for all manual reloads above RM1000 starting this November. Furthermore, it will also remove the current option to either make a credit card reload transferable or non-transferable.

Following the implementation of the open payment system at MEX, NPE, BESRAYA and several other highways, another expressway is now joining in and accepting payment via debit or credit cards - The Ampang-Kuala Lumpur Elevated Highway (AKLEH). Currently being tested at one of the highway’s toll plazas, read on to find out more.