... 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
... t Pay and Alipay, both of which are extending their usage to taxis and merchants in the Hong Kong market. “AliPay and WeChat Pay are generally used by mainlanders, while we are targeting a different c ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-13
... a Group's Alipay and Tencent Holdings' WeChat to seize an opportunity here. There is lack of innovation in Hong Kong, a situation that can be set right through greater economic cooperation with China ...More
EJ Insight2017-11-08
As some wet markets in Hong Kong prepare to accept Alipay for their daily transactions, there has been a heated debate in online forums as to which is a better choice for the merchants -- Alipay or th ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-31
... ts system Alipay. Tenants at the market, located in the Kowloon peninsula, will be the first batch of vendors that Alipay will cover under a business initiative targeted at wet markets and other stree ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-24
... s such as AliPay, WeChat pay or PayPal. China's situation is different. The country has a number of unique problems that somehow became the tailwinds for e-payment development. The nation's financial ...More
EJ Insight2017-10-11
... d such as Alipay and WeChat Wallet had rendered the Octopus Card completely obsolete. The article then went on to conclude that the outdated Octopus Card was indeed a reflection of our city's sluggish ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-27
... Taobao or Alipay account. While the app enables customers to make orders online, shoppers at the supermarket can scan the barcode on every product on sale and find information about it. Take the ferme ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-18
... ng Tmall, Alipay and Alibaba Cloud, Intime can now accurately analyze consumers’ habits in a 10-kilometer periphery of its department stores. Such data can map out the family structure, average age, a ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-13
... players, AliPay and WeChat Pay, receive strong support from their mother companies, a factor that has been instrumental to their successes. Q: Tech startups in Mainland China are eager to source data ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-11
... s such as Alipay and WeChat Wallet. In Hong Kong, however, it is a different story. People use a variety of ways to pay for what they buy – cash, Octopus, credit card and cheque. The use of mobile pho ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-24
... s such as Alipay and WeChat Wallet. In Hong Kong, howev ...全文
今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2017年08月24日
... dominant Alipay has been expanding in 28 foreign countries including Japan. However, Hong Kong, the financial powerhouse of the region, is oddly lagging when it comes to mobile payment. In response t ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-22
E-payment continues to gain traction in China and Alibaba’s Alipay has been one of the most aggressive promoters of the cash-free trend. But recently, its Hema Xiansheng stores have drawn complaints f ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-11
