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First Australian Bank To Integrate With Alipay

Tyro, Australia’s business-only bank announced it had entered an agreement with the world’s largest mobile and online payment platform, Alipay, to become the first Australian bank to offer a seamless, all-in-one EFTPOS solution with Alipay for Tyro’s merchants and improve

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Alipay Launches World’s First Paperless Tax Refund Service in South Korea

Alipay operated by Ant Financial Services Group, announced that it has partnered with Global Tax Free (“GTF”), a tax refund agency, to launch the world’s first paperless mobile tax refund function in South Korea. Alipay has consistently been at the

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AlipayHK and GCash Launch Cross-Border Remittance Service on Blockchain

AlipayHK and GCash  announced the launch of a cross-border remittance service through their e-wallet platforms, powered by  blockchain technology developed by Alipay, the online payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group. Alibpay claims that this is the first blockchain-based

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Alipay Introduces Two New Money Market Funds

Alipay, the world’s largest online, mobile payment and lifestyle platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group,  announced  last month the addition of two new money market funds to Yu’e Bao, the spare cash management platform within the Alipay app. The

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Overseas In-Store Payments On Alipay Increased 700% Yoy During Golden Week 2017

Golden Week 2017: Alipay stats   This Golden Week, Alipay users conducted eight times as many in-store transactions overseas as they did last year. Asia dominated the list of top-ten destinations in terms of transaction volume. Hong Kong topped the list, followed by Thailand, Taiwan, Japan,

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Globe, Alipay, and the Chinese Tourist Trap

One week ago, Globe Telecommunications announced a new capital infusion from Jack Ma’s Ant Financial and Ayala Corporation into its Globe Fintech Innovations subsidiary (officially, Mynt). Mynt launched in late 2015 as a sort of revamped and consolidated version of GCash and its

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Apple Pay, Android Pay and Alipay Now Available in some Hotels in Hong Kong

Guests are now welcomed to use Apple Pay, Android Pay and Alipay at Hotel Panorama by Rhombus and Hotel Pennington by Rhombus, while Apple Pay and Android Pay are also available at Hotel LKF by Rhombus. Following the success of

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Swiss SIX Payment Services Goes Alipay

Pan-European payments provider SIX and Chinese mobile payments pioneer Alipay respond to a major retail trend by planning to support merchants in tapping into the potential of millions of new customers. Users of the popular Chinese payment App Alipay will

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Ant Financial Worth US$75B, Considers IPO in HK Next Year, All Facts you Have to Know about Alipay

Ant Financial, Alipay’s parent company and Alibaba’s financial-services affiliate, is said to be worth US$75 billion, according to Elinor Leung, the head of telecom and Internet research at CLSA in Hong Kong. According to a Bloomberg report, Leung estimates that

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HKMA Picks 16 Firms for Retail CBDC Pilot Programme ‘e-HKD’

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has commenced its e-HKD Pilot Programme with a total of 16 firms selected from the financial, payment and technology sectors whom will participate in the first phase this year. The firms include Alipay HK,

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