Banking on the future at convenience stores: financial services drive emergence of kiosks in...

The Asia of the new millennium is a diverse world, at once both emerging and on the leading edge in economic and technology matters. Into this world comes the concept of convenience stores, driven into Asia's major cities and emerging burgs with increasing speed. Technology companies that have cracked the veneer of Asia's cultural and political systems find countries ready for new technology, in many cases because they have no old technology to compare it with.

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