With 2020–2021 so severely disrupted, our team of highly professional and experienced analysts at Thunder X Pay started looking ahead to 2022 and what changes could be on the horizon that could positively impact doing business in Cambodia. Our analyist team will update this content as new announcements are made. Feature Photo Credit: Chinese Embassy of Cambodia –  The new Morodok Techo National Stadium.  COVID-19 in Cambodia The Prime Minister said the target was to vaccinate 10 million adults by November 2021, with the goal of vaccinating 2 million adolescents aged 12-17 by the end of 2021 in order to build herd immunity. Phnom Penh ranked as one of the most vaccinated capital cities in the world, with around 99% of adults fully vaccinated in Q3 2021. However, booster shots of Johnson & Johnson and Aztrazenica were rolled out as there were some concerns over the efficacy of Sinopharm and Sinovac in battling the Delta variant towards the end of 2021. By the time Omicron was identified, Cambodia had one of the highest vaccination and booster rates globally and as a

In this article, our experienced analytic team would like to share their professional opinion regarding Laos’ economic condition and potential in 2022. GDP growth last year was probably tepid, hit by multiple Covid-19 waves and the ensuing imposition of restrictions, with rising inflation also likely limiting activity by capping consumers’ purchasing power. At the start of the new year, momentum is likely to have remained restrained amid a surge in Covid-19 caseloads and persistently high price pressures, with the currency continuing to weaken. That said, the latest wave of infections has recently begun to abate, allowing the country to slightly loosen restrictions in January and February, boding more positively for activity ahead. In other news, despite much optimism following its opening in December, the China-Laos railway appears unlikely to boost activity early in the year, with local media reporting that Lao exports to China have been held up by tough Chinese border restrictions amid the ongoing Winter Olympics and the country’s zero-Covid policy. Due to the detailed analysis, has been conducted by our analytic team, the economy should gain steam

Why your marketplace could be at risk from malicious attacks and what we’re doing to combat them. As marketplaces continue to make themselves the epicenter of seller productivity, they’re seeing a simultaneous rise in malicious attacks, prompting the question: how can you maintain global growth while effectively executing fraud prevention? Given that more and more marketplaces are now becoming payment facilitators for their sellers by embedding payments, the level of risk involved has risen exponentially. While intuitive and eminently scalable, it broadens the scope for malicious attacks in several ways that can result in financial and reputational damage for the marketplace. For the purpose of this blog, we will focus on marketplaces and how to prevent these attacks from causing significant damage. It’s worth noting that most of the fraud that plagues marketplaces can occur across any multi-sided business facilitating payments. This is particularly true for seller fraud, which we will spotlight in this blog, and how, in a platform environment, malicious users engage in dangerous activity through the guise of genuine sellers. The risk landscape for marketplace The cruel