These include Alibaba.com, the world's largest wholesale e-commerce company and which recently teamed up with Kasikornbank, Thailand's fourth-biggest bank by assets, to help support Thai SMEs entering China’s e-commerce market.
Thailand's e-commerce market is also tipped for intensified competition, as Taobao — an online shopping portal under Alibaba and similar to eBay — is aggressively expanding in Southeast Asia to sell cheap Chinese-made products to ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malaysia.