
1. Technology overview
PayerMax is a cross-border payments company founded in 2018 with its base in Singapore and localized offices in 16 countries and regions, including Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Brazil. It helps digital businesses expanding into emerging markets accept local payment methods, pay out and manage money without contracting each local provider.
The platform covers Global Acquiring for local and cross-border pay-in, Global Payout for batch disbursements, Global Collection with overseas local accounts, Risk Control for fraud and chargebacks, FX Management for hedging and rate locks, and Fund Management with multi-currency accounts. It supports more than 600 payment methods, 70 transaction currencies and over 150 countries and regions. Customers are mainly game publishers, social and entertainment apps and cross-border e-commerce merchants.
2. Highlighted features & specifications
- Global Acquiring: Accepts local and cross-border payments through 600+ methods.
- Global Payout: Sends batch disbursements to recipients worldwide.
- Global Collection: Provides overseas local accounts for receiving funds.
- Risk Control: Screens transactions for fraud and manages chargebacks.
- FX Management: Offers hedging and exchange rate locks.
- Fund Management: Holds balances in multi-currency accounts.
3. Potential application
A Vietnamese game studio can accept wallets and local methods in Indonesia, Brazil or Saudi Arabia when launching titles abroad. A cross-border e-commerce seller can collect through overseas local accounts. A content platform can pay creators across markets through batch payouts.
4. Benefits
One integration gives access to more than 600 payment methods in over 150 countries and regions, including wallets and bank transfers common in emerging markets. Local licences in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, the UAE and Saudi Arabia shorten market entry. Exchange rate locks and multi-currency accounts reduce FX risk, and ISO 27001 and PCI DSS compliance supports security reviews.
5. Market trends & opportunities
Domestic payment schemes, unified QR codes and e-wallets have grown quickly across Southeast Asia and the Middle East, so digital businesses expanding abroad must support many local methods. Game, entertainment and e-commerce companies from Asia are increasingly going global and need one partner for pay-in, payout and FX.
6. Other information
Founded in 2018, with offices in Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Shanghai, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Brazil and Mexico. MENA regional headquarters in Riyadh since 2024. Licensed by MAS, Bank Indonesia, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Bank of Thailand and ADGM. Named a global PSP for Google Pay in 2025.
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