{
  "id": 8870667,
  "title": "ASEAN’s digital payment boom outrunning its scam defenses",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/aseans-digital-payment-boom-outrunning-its-scam-defenses",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-21T07:11:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/09/aseans-digital-payment-boom-outrunning-its-scam-defenses/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Southeast Asia’s rapid economic integration has long been a celebrated success story, and nowhere is this more evident today than in its retail payment systems. Across the region, central banks are linking their national QR code protocols under the ASEAN Regional Payment Connectivity initiative, enabling friction-free, cross-border digital transactions between citizens of Indonesia, Thailand,…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}