Alibaba Group Holding is introducing Tencent’s WeChat Pay as a payment option on its Taobao and Tmall platforms, according to…
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Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba Group, is in advanced negotiations to acquire Dutch payment company MultiSafepay. The deal, pending…
Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Alibaba Group, is giving up control of the fintech unit Ant Group after China…
With a population of 1.4 billion, China has all the makings of a hotbed for e-commerce, a match made in…
In China, online lenders are filling the credit gap, leveraging cutting edge technology including artificial intelligence (AI) to make lending…
In July, Tencent’s super-app WeChat ran a trial that enabled passengers of two Spring Airlines flights between Shanghai and Chengdu…
Since president Xi Jinping announced a plan to gradually turn Hainan into a pilot free trade zone by 2020 and…
When one considers China’s influence on the rest of Asia, it is often seen as a benchmark; how China’s dramatic…
Mobile payments is rapidly becoming a dynamic market in Japan as the government pushes to increase cashless payments to 40%…
China’s tech giants Alibaba and Tencent are going after global remittances, a market that sees more than US$600 billion being…
The company that drove Uber out of China, Didi Chuxing, comes into the new year embroiled in controversy. About a…
The Chinese retail industry is entering a “new retail” era, characterized by the widespread use of technologies such as artificial…
Sometime around the tail-end of 2010 the banks started realising that something called a FinTech could be a threat to…
Alibaba Group will invest over 100 billion yuan to build the technical backbone for a smart logistics network aimed at…
Traditional financial centers such as London and New York are witnessing increasing pressure from Chinese cities such as Beijing and Shenzhen which…
WeLab, one of the fastest growing fintech companies in Greater China, announced last month that it has raised US$220 million of…
The 11.11 Global Shopping Festival generates bigger numbers every year than any other online sale in the world. This year’s…
SouChe (literally meaning Search Car in Chinese) announced that it has closed its Series E funding round led by Alibaba…