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Recently, Australia fintech company AirPay Financial Technologies announced its regional collaboration with China leading mobile payment technology company SwiftPass to form a new lifestyle brand “AirPass”. Connecting Australian merchants directly with…
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese online platform Tencent to allow jewellery purchases using WeChat Pay. In a move to promote “seamless cross-border intelligent consumption”, the agreement allows Hong Kong…
Nuwemaru Street in Yeon-dong, Jeju City, was known as Baojian street until it was renamed in April. The street had been called Baojian from 2011 when the Chinese pharmaceutical company of the same name sent 12,000 employees to the southern tourist island as a…
Gaming and chat specialist Tencent has reported a strong third-quarter profit despite ongoing issues with Mainland China regulatory authorities over its gaming software. Tencent’s share price has fallen by about one third this year, shedding US$165 billion…
Customers of 7-Eleven, Cold Storage and Guardian stores in Singapore will soon be able to pay for purchases using WeChat Pay. The owner of the two retail chains, Dairy Farm Group, has worked with NETS to enable visitors from China and Chinese nationals based…
Mobile payment platform WeChat Pay has announced its first mall partner in Singapore. WeChat Pay is rolling out cashless payment services across retail and F&B outlets in the popular Bugis Junction and Bugis+ malls, centrally located in Singapore’s Civic and…
Centara Hotels & Resorts, Thailand’s leading hotel operator, has announced that it is now accepting WeChat Pay transactions on its websites for online room reservations. This is in addition to the 15 hotels that already deploy nearly 100 EDC devices for QR…
Bui Mai Phuong is an avid online shopper, ordering anything from clothing to personal-care products from her smartphone. But she prefers to pay with cash. She is among hundreds of millions of people whom firms such as Softbank Group-backed Grab and China’s…
WeChat Pay, a popular mobile payment method among Chinese consumers, will be available in several European airport retail destinations, as part of the travel retail industry’s attempts to appeal to large visitor numbers from China. Lagardère Travel Retail,…
Chinese tourists are helping drive the growth of cashless payments using Tencent’s WeChat in the Philippines, according to its Filipino partner, Asia United Bank. Chinese tourist arrivals are projected to hit 1 million. Staying in the country for 8 days on…
Tencent’s WeChat Pay is now linking to non-Chinese credit cards for mobile payments. This means expats in China and foreign residents of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan can now bind and activate WeChat Pay accounts with credit-card services provided by JCB,…
China’s unmanned convenience-store brand BingoBox plans to introduce its cashierless concept to Hong Kong next year, targeting neighbourhoods and suburbs. “With unmanned stores the labour cost is eliminated, making them far more cost-effective, even in…
In the middle of London’s Camden Market, a trader from China hands red-bean cakes to a group of tourists from Sweden, as tattooed locals dressed in black leather weave their way between food stalls cooking up dishes including barbecued meat and fish and…
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 consumers. Starting Sunday, the partnerships will allow…
