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Our Singapore Consumer team is delighted to present our Doing Business in Singapore guide.

The misleading promotional activities on Expedia Singapore's website has now halted, thanks to the competition watchdog, the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore ("CCCS").

In recent years, the consumer credit landscape has seen a rise in "Buy Now Pay Later" ("BNPL") transactions, notably popular with retail customers for purchases at physical stores and online platforms.

In an age of intense market competition, businesses have resorted to various novel marketing and pricing practices to capture the attention of consumers.

Since 2020, BNPL transactions in Singapore have more than tripled, with the latest figures valuing BNPL transactions in Singapore at S$440 million.

Competition and consumer enforcers across Asia-Pacific are intensifying scrutiny of dark patterns—manipulative online design techniques that lead users to make unintended decisions. This enforcement trend is expanding beyond traditional privacy and consumer protection concerns into competition law territory, with regulators in Singapore, China, Japan, and Australia now treating these practices as potential antitrust violations that can distort markets and harm fair competition.

With a view to mitigate the emerging challenges in Singapore's e-commerce marketplace, Enterprise Singapore (ESG) through the Singapore Standards Council (SSC) has collaborated with the industry experts like...