... 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
... 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
... Alibaba’s AliPay and Tencent’s Tenpay together control about 90 percent of the third-party payment market in China.) As such, the People’s Bank of China has decided to establish a centralized clearin ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-09
... o use the Alipay smartphone payment platform when they stay in Marriott properties abroad, the newspaper said. The deal will also enable Chinese consumers to avail themselves of Marriott’s loyalty pro ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-08
... origin to Alipay, whose formation in 2004 was arguably a stroke of genius by Jack Ma, Alibaba’s chairman, and his team. Back then, they were scratching their heads trying to solve the problem of onli ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-26
... s -- with Alipay, Alibaba’s mobile payment platform. Alipay, launched in 2004, now has more than 500 million users in China. Mobile payment is becoming hugely popular as it offers benefits to both me ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-19
Silicon Valley startup Stripe has partnered with digital payment providers Alipay and WeChat Pay to enable merchants using its platform globally to accept payments from hundreds of millions of Chinese ...More
EJ Insight2017-07-10
... ts system Alipay and deposit-absorbing online investment fund Yuebao, and tax authorities grinding their teeth about lost revenues and finding ways to tax e-vendors, has Ma just made more enemies for ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-09
... , such as Alipay or WeChat payment has been blooming for a long time in China, it is also getting popular in Hong Kong. So what is the difference between the two? And what is the difference between CB ...More
EJ Insight2017-05-18
... t gateway Alipay: offer an old lady the same power as that held by, say, the chief executive of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, in making payments with the press of a few buttons. In other co ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-25
... s such as Alipay or WeChat. But for sellers, they would get digital payments directly from the buyer, lowering transaction costs as the middleman is cut out of the process, the report said. As the cen ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-24
... l put its Alipay mobile-payment system in Bailian's stores, helping it expand its influence in China's online-payment race. Bailian, meanwhile, can use access to Alibaba's technology, including its we ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-21
... biquitous AliPay and WeChat payment, from chain stores to roadside stalls. You feel you are living in the Stone Age in Hong Kong when local retailers still hand out stamp-sized paper coupons on the pr ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-20
... a Group’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay to settle small payments. Just when HSBC, with over four million account holders in Hong Kong alone, took such a long time to invent something that can be com ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-09
... ao World, Alipay and Tmall -- are able to collect and file sensitive information on users, such as their mobile handset identity numbers, activities and location data. Thie information, which is route ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-12
Ant Financial Services Group, the financial affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has rolled out a new social networking feature called "Circles" on its flagship Alipay app. Following the launc ...More
EJ Insight2016-11-30
