Joseph Chan, Founder & CEO of AsiaPay, started and spearheaded the company with the sole aim of bringing safe, convenient, and integrated payments to different Asian markets and industries. His visionary take on electronic payments started as a Hong Kong-based firm back in 2000, and is now operating in 11 markets in Asia.
Before building his mark on the industry, Joseph aims towards delivering consumers’ desired payment convenience, values, and merchants’ integrated payment processing, settlements, and reporting, which stand as key factors why AsiaPay was built. He says, “The award-winning payment solutions that we build have eyes on the future generation’s potential for whatever source, form, or means of payment for consumers and merchants across the continued expansion of digital commerce channels.”
Below are highlights of the interview conducted between the World’s Leaders and Joseph Chan:
Tell us about how efficient your organization’s products and services are from an operational standpoint.
Operating efficiently means using resources like time, employees, equipment, products, and capital in an optimised way to serve the business. Efficient companies are leaner, agile and more profitable. Ever since the pandemic began, there’s a vast difference from how we operate the company then and now. With the unique challenges we are facing, we have moved along with the payment innovations of providing cutting-edge products and services to our clients.
- Quality
-Performance and reliability: We strive to provide a robust, high-performance, and resilient digital payment processing service at zero-down time.
-Security: We understand there is no bullet-proof security in digital work. Apart from enforcing the latest card standards and technologies and complying with PCI DSS standards, we continue to engage new security companies in partnerships for their advanced value-added security technologies and services
-Account service and Technical Support – We believe in localisation day one. Locally trained professionals provide dedicated account and technical support in the local time zone and languages.
-User Experience-we launched a revamped Merchant Admin Portal, to modernize, enhance, and simplify the administration experience for our valued clients.
-Experience and knowledge sharing: we continue to provide regular guidelines and training to clients on the latest payment tools and technologies, as well as new payment standards and practises.
-Launched PayDollar AppPay mobile App which allows merchants to accept multiple payments through QR code and payment link with their own smart phone devices.
-Fully support merchants to accept the most local popular BNPL payments in different countries.
-Launched ApplePay, Click to Pay, and ShopeePay, etc. which support our merchants’ stay on top of marketing trends and optimise sales conversions.
- Efficiency
-Make the leap to omnichannel payments solutions to support omnichannel commerce.
-To enhance customer experience, business growth, and competitive edge, especially in these uncertain times.
-Get digital and make all payments touchless.
- Time of delivery
-To provide secure, reliable digital payment processing, quality local client service, and 24/7 technical support.
- Health and safety
At AsiaPay, we:
- Practice Working-from-Home & Flexible Working Hours
- Ensure the safety of the working environment with continued sanitization and the provision of medical supplies.
- Make effective use of online meeting tools and webinars.
What’s more, we:
- Develop various “Learn-from-Home” training programmes
- Launch the “Family Aid” programme for families with financial needs.
- Offer “holiday benefits” after the lockdown
How effective is your organization’s strategic vision? What are the three things you would like to share about the company?
Our strategic vision is to be the leading DIGITAL PAYMENT SERVICE & TECHNOLOGY player in Asia and beyond.
Firstly, on the technical front, we have been PCI DSS level 1 compliant since 2006, one of the earliest PSPs in Asia that achieves such a high standard of Data Security for payment processing, over 15 years in Asia.
Secondly, on payment authentication, we are one of the very few 3D Secure certified vendors in Asia that is compliant with all 6 card brands-Visa, MasterCard, Amex, Discover/Diners, JCB, and CUP for issuing side and acquiring banks since 2003, not only the existing version 1.0 but also the latest 2.0. We are one of the very few certified vendors that supports the latest card tokenization standards of Visa (VTS) and MasterCard (MDES).
Finally, as a fintech player in risk control and monitoring, we provide our advanced anti-fraud processing and reporting tools to merchants for FREE (no additional costs) as part of our payment service.These have been used every day by all our banks and merchant clients in 11 countries in Asia since 2005.
What is the direction and state of innovations in the company?
As the pandemic accelerates global economies toward a cashless future, we at AsiaPay will continue to make every effort to capitalise on the latest digital payment and commerce technologies to create new values and opportunities for Asian banks and merchants that improve customer experience, business growth, and competitive edge, particularly in these uncertain times.
Does your organization’s corporate responsibility strategy match the availability of your current resources?
When it comes to corporate responsibility strategy, our mission is to help our business partners grow their business through online by providing innovative, secure and cost-effective solutions that will make them competitive in the eCommerce landscape.
AsiaPay fosters a strong employee-centered culture that is reinforced by its core values of Collaboration, Inclusion, Innovation and Wellness.
AsiaPay is focused on responsibly managing and reducing its environmental impact. We adopted an environmental “Green Office” with the slogan “Go Green at Work: Reduce, Reuse, Replace & Recycle” in order to generate less pollution and waste. In each training plan.
AsiaPay’s approach to operating its business is one that is ethical and responsible.
Testimonials from Clients
“Certified PayDollar PayGate means our merchants can adopt their payment solutions to talk with our infrastructure to process online Visa, MasterCard, and Diners Club transactions in a secure and reliable topology…” Citibank HK
“Decided to switch to AsiaPay to achieve cost savings and improved availability…We have not only attained significant cost savings, but also substantially enhanced our services to our customers with more payment options and enhanced security. We appreciate their tireless efforts in meeting our needs and their proactiveness in adding value to their services… ” ~ SaSa.com
