... platform Alipay announced it has taken a 20 percent stake in Hong Kong-based food and restaurant review website OpenRice with the aim of transforming it into a mobile payment platform. Alibaba's real ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-18
China’s cyber watchdog has scolded Ant Financial, Alibaba’s payment affiliate, for compromising user privacy after many users of its Alipay service were automatically enrolled in its credit scoring sy ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-11
... ears with Alipay and Tencent’s Tenpay each accumulating over 500 million users. Client reserve funds are prepaid sums from buyers that are held temporarily by payment companies before they are transfe ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-08
... rates the Alipay mobile payment platform. But the fund it manages has already exceeded the value of China Merchants Bank. Ant Financial has been planning for a long time to pursue a global expansion s ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-04
... f Taobao, Alipay and WeChat. Still, the rapid development and increasing clout of these tech platforms are keeping regulators on their toes. Authorities may feel they may need to introduce additional ...More
EJ Insight2018-01-03
... ch accept Alipay and WeChat Pay, use MobiCloud technology developed by the company. EFT is set to benefit from the booming e-payment market in Hong Kong where the number of players is increasing. On t ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-28
... ith their Alipay app to unlock the machine to select goods. The machine will then register what has been picked up when customers close the door, automatically charging via Alipay, the digital payment ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-21
... ts giants Alipay and WeChat Pay. Booqed also helped find an office space for a Shenzhen-based startup, which has just received new funding, expanded its team to 30 and looked for a 6-month short-term ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-18
... 與阿里巴巴的支付寶(Alipay)及騰訊(00700)的微信支付(WeChat Pay)達成全球合作協議,讓網 ...全文
今日信報財經新聞StartupBeat 創科鬥室2017年12月18日
Alipay, the mobile payments unit of China’s Ant Financial Services Group, launched a major shopping event on Dec. 12, called the “Double 12” International Festival. More than 10,000 shops in Hong Kong ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-14
... s such as Alipay that are hugely popular in China. This suggests Hong Kong people can also go their own way and do well without the Chinese mobile payment systems. In Hong Kong, about 20 million credi ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-11
... yers like Alipay and WeChat Pay are expanding their presence in the Hong Kong market. The local mobile payment landscape would thus come to a turning point in the next two years as the rivalry among l ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-07
... ices like Alipay and WeChat Pay. In Hong Kong, many consumers still refuse to use mobile payment tools on account of security concerns. Yet mobile payment has been quite popular not just in China but ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-01
... s such as Alipay and WeChat Pay which are expanding rapidly in Hong Kong. Adrian Tam, a sales and marketing general manager at Octopus, pointed out that traditional Octopus cards were fast, with trans ...More
EJ Insight2017-12-01
... example, Alipay and WeChat Pay went directly for the retail market as soon as they entered Hong Kong. Local startups can hardly do the same thing. If the Hong Kong government is keen to innovate with ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-28
... likes of Alipay and Tenpay. Personally I have a sentimental attachment to the Octopus system as it was a pioneer two decades ago. Payment systems have made so much progress in the last decade that I ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-27
Following their success in the mainland, China’s two largest mobile payment platforms, AliPay and WeChat Pay, are ratcheting up their expansion plans to Hong Kong. AliPay has been introduced in some w ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-24
... ment with Alipay or collect online orders. It’s obvious that the retail experiment has to connect online and offline realms. Market players are still trying out the system. Amazon spent US$13.7 billio ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-22
... Alibaba’s Alipay, which dominate China’s digital payment market, have sought to expand their global footprint, although that push has so far been limited to payment services for Chinese outbound touri ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-21