{"id":5540,"date":"2026-06-01T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/?p=5540"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:29:02","slug":"soft-space-featured-in-nanyang-siang-pau-for-its-role-as-the-invisible-engine-behind-contactless-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/?p=5540","title":{"rendered":"SOFT SPACE\u00a0Featured in Nanyang\u00a0Siang Pau\u00a0for its\u00a0Role as the Invisible Engine Behind Contactless Payments\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5542 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss_x_nysp_standardized-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss_x_nysp_standardized-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss_x_nysp_standardized-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss_x_nysp_standardized-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss_x_nysp_standardized-1-260x146.png 260w, https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss_x_nysp_standardized-1-50x28.png 50w, https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss_x_nysp_standardized-1-133x75.png 133w, https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ss_x_nysp_standardized-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>June 2026 &#8211; SOFT SPACE<span data-contrast=\"auto\"> was recently featured exclusively in Nanyang Siang Pau, one of Malaysia&#8217;s leading Chinese-language business publications. The piece spotlights SOFT SPACE&#8217;s B2B model and its role as a behind-the-scenes technology provider, supplying payment infrastructure to banks and financial institutions rather than serving consumers directly.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The feature traces the company&#8217;s journey from its founding observation that smartphones could replace physical payment terminals, to expanding globally across Japan, Australia, Europe, and the US,\u00a0with COVID-19 cited as a key turning point that accelerated demand for software-based contactless payment solutions.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It also highlights SOFT SPACE&#8217;s focus on Japan as a key growth market and its selection as one of only two Malaysian companies being nurtured for a potential Tokyo Stock Exchange listing.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0the full\u00a0feature\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.enanyang.my\/news\/20260601\/Finance\/1266964\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2026 &#8211; SOFT SPACE was recently featured exclusively in Nanyang Siang Pau, one of Malaysia&#8217;s leading Chinese-language business publications. The piece spotlights SOFT SPACE&#8217;s B2B<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-announcement","category-news-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5540"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5617,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5540\/revisions\/5617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/softspace.com.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}