{"id":11594,"date":"2021-01-26T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/01\/26\/mc-payment-poised-to-become-singapores-first-listed-digital-payments-firm\/"},"modified":"2021-01-26T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T10:15:00","slug":"mc-payment-poised-to-become-singapores-first-listed-digital-payments-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/01\/26\/mc-payment-poised-to-become-singapores-first-listed-digital-payments-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"MC Payment Poised To Become Singapore\u2019s First Listed Digital Payments Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>To become first digital&#13;<br \/>\npayments service provider listed on SGX<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>RTO of Catalist-listed&#13;<br \/>\nArtivision Technologies Ltd. approved at EGM with expected completion on 18 Feb&#13;<br \/>\n2021<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Artivision Technologies Ltd.&#13;<br \/>\nwill be renamed to MC Payment Limited<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Well-positioned to capitalise&#13;<br \/>\non ASEAN&#8217;s booming digital payments market<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\">Media OutReach <\/a>&#8211; 26 January 2021<b>\u00a0&#8211; Artivision Technologies Ltd. (SGX:5NK) (&#8220;Artivision<\/b>&#8220;,&#13;<br \/>\nthe &#8220;<b>Company<\/b>&#8221; or the &#8220;<b>Group<\/b>&#8220;)&#13;<br \/>\nshareholders approved the proposed reverse takeover (RTO) of electronic&#13;<br \/>\npayments company, <a href=\"http:\/\/mcpayment.com\/\">Mobile Credit Payment Pte. Ltd. (&#8220;MC Payment&#8221;)<\/a>, at an&#13;<br \/>\nExtraordinary General Meeting (EGM) in Singapore last Friday. With the expected&#13;<br \/>\ncompletion of the acquisition on 18 February 2021, Artivision will be renamed MC&#13;<br \/>\nPayment Limited, and is set to become the first listed digital payments services&#13;<br \/>\nfirm on the SGX-ST. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Established in 2005 and regulated by the Monetary&#13;<br \/>\nAuthority of Singapore (MAS) under the Payment Services Act 2019, MC Payment holds&#13;<br \/>\na major payment institution licence and is a Singapore-based, online-to-offline&#13;<br \/>\n(O2O) financial services technology company with a fully integrated platform and&#13;<br \/>\nwith a focus on servicing merchants in the retail, transportation and food and&#13;<br \/>\nbeverage industries.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The proposed acquisition of MC Payment is expected&#13;<br \/>\nto be completed on 18 February 2021. ZICO Capital is the Sponsor and Financial&#13;<br \/>\nAdviser in respect of the Proposed RTO and Evolve Capital Advisory is the&#13;<br \/>\nfinancial adviser to MC Payment. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The Company is of the view that MC Payment&#8217;s listing&#13;<br \/>\ncomes at an opportune time, with digital payments surging in Southeast Asia amidst&#13;<br \/>\nthe rise in online and e-commerce transactions, in light of safe-distancing&#13;<br \/>\nmeasures imposed by respective government and general public&#8217;s concerns over&#13;<br \/>\nthe COVID-19 outbreak. The Group retains a competitive edge with its accessibility,&#13;<br \/>\nomni-channel unified commerce capabilities and ability to leverage on its&#13;<br \/>\nplatform for additional business enhancing value-added services, leveraging on&#13;<br \/>\nits position as one of the few licensed payment providers with a regional&#13;<br \/>\npresence and a scalable payment infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Currently, MC Payment has a presence in four&#13;<br \/>\ncountries &#8211; Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand &#8211; with ambitions to&#13;<br \/>\nbecome a regional player. With digital payments in ASEAN expected to triple to&#13;<br \/>\nUS$1.5 trillion (S$2 trillion) by 2030[1],&#13;<br \/>\nthe Group is well-placed to capitalise on this significant and growing market&#13;<br \/>\nopportunity, given its established infrastructure and expanding geographical footprint.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Future growth avenues for the Group include&#13;<br \/>\npenetrating new geographical markets through mergers and acquisitions, joint&#13;<br \/>\nventures and\/or franchises, developing new technology and other payment&#13;<br \/>\nsolutions, as well as rolling out new value-added services for merchants, to&#13;<br \/>\nboost customer retention and expand its customer base.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8220;We&#8217;re expecting a robust growth&#13;<br \/>\ntrajectory for the Southeast Asian payments industry, following a surge in&#13;<br \/>\ndigitisation, spurred by increased access to 5G mobile technology, blockchain&#13;<br \/>\nand AI, coupled with the rapid rise of e-commerce. We look forward to an&#13;<br \/>\nexciting future in the digital payments industry, one that is filled with immense&#13;<br \/>\npossibilities and opportunities,&#8221;<\/i><\/b><b> <\/b>said&#13;<br \/>\nMC Payment Chief Executive Officer, Anthony Koh.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\"\/>\n<div id=\"ftn1\">\n[1] This&#13;<br \/>\ninformation was extracted from a media release entitled &#8220;Digital payments in&#13;<br \/>\nAsean to triple to US$1.5t by 2030: report&#8221; published by The Business Times on&#13;<br \/>\n16 October 2020, which can be accessed at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/asean-business\/digital-payments-in-asean-to-triple-to-us15t-by-2030-report#:~:text=DIGITAL%20payments%20in%20Asean%20are,Global%20Research%20Asean%20Next%20report\">https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/asean-business\/digital-payments-in-asean-to-triple-to-us15t-by-2030-report#:~:text=DIGITAL%20payments%20in%20Asean%20are,Global%20Research%20Asean%20Next%20report<\/a>., data&#13;<br \/>\naccessed on 26 January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This press release prepared by MC Payment. (the&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Company&#8221;) does not constitute, or form part of, an offer to sell or&#13;<br \/>\nthe solicitation of an offer to subscribe for or buy any securities, nor the&#13;<br \/>\nsolicitation of any vote or approval in any jurisdiction, nor shall there be&#13;<br \/>\nany sale, issue or transfer of the securities referred to in this press release&#13;<br \/>\nin any jurisdiction in contravention of applicable law. Persons requiring&#13;<br \/>\nadvice should consult their stockbroker, bank manager, solicitor, accountant or&#13;<br \/>\nother independent financial consultant. <\/p>\n<p>This press release should not be relied upon as&#13;<br \/>\na representation of any matter that an advisor or potential investor should&#13;<br \/>\nconsider in evaluating the Company. The Company and its related bodies&#13;<br \/>\ncorporate or any of its directors, agents, officers or employees do not make any&#13;<br \/>\nrepresentation or warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy or&#13;<br \/>\ncompleteness of any information, statements or representations contained in&#13;<br \/>\nthis press release, and they do not accept any liability whatsoever (including&#13;<br \/>\nin negligence) for any information, representation or statement made in or&#13;<br \/>\nomitted from this press release. <\/p>\n<p>This press release contains certain forward&#13;<br \/>\nlooking statements which involve known and unknown risks, delays and&#13;<br \/>\nuncertainties not under the Company&#8217;s control which may cause actual results,&#13;<br \/>\nperformance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from the&#13;<br \/>\nresults, performance or expectations implied by these forward looking&#13;<br \/>\nstatements. The Company makes no representation or warranty, express or&#13;<br \/>\nimplied, as to or endorsement of the accuracy or completeness of any&#13;<br \/>\ninformation, statements or representations contained in this press release with&#13;<br \/>\nrespect to the Company.<\/p>\n<p>It is acknowledged that the Company will not&#13;<br \/>\nundertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions or updates to these&#13;<br \/>\nforward-looking statements to reflect events, circumstances or unanticipated&#13;<br \/>\nevents occurring after the date of this press release except as required by law&#13;<br \/>\nor by any appropriate regulatory authority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/62496#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &#13; &#13; To become first digital&#13; payments service provider listed on SGX RTO of Catalist-listed&#13; Artivision Technologies Ltd. approved at EGM with expected completion on 18 Feb&#13; 2021 Artivision Technologies Ltd.&#13; will be renamed to MC Payment Limited Well-positioned to capitalise&#13; on ASEAN&#8217;s booming digital payments market &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}