BNP Paribas Integrates WeChat Pay, Year After Its Alipay Launch
EXCLUSIVE - BNP Paribas opened Chinese mobile payment service WeChat Pay to its retail partners in Europe today. The payment ...
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Apple Pay Overpowered by Tencent’s WeChat Pay
Apple issued an official statement today stating that its mainland Chinese users will now be able to use WeChat Pay ...
Tencent Amps Up AI Efforts for WeChat Pay
Tencent is making a significant bet on artificial intelligence in its financial advisory services. In May, the giant Chinese digital ...
Tencent Will Increase Investment in Payments, AI
Tencent Holdings will be increasing its investments in financial technologies like artificial technologies and in payments, the company stated during ...
What’s Driving the Return of QR?
Until recently, choosing between NFC payments and QR codes would have been an easy choice. Now, with EMVCo releasing QR ...
3 Out of 4 Apple Pay Transactions Happen Outside the U.S.
Apple Pay usage continues to grow on a global scale, but not so much when it comes to the U.S. ...
AliPay, WeChat Processed $3 Trillion in 2016
Chinese consumers sent about $3 trillion in payments through Alibaba and Tencent payment services in 2016. According to a new ...
Starbucks Brews IoT Innovation With iMessage Gifting, Amazon, And More
Why build your own network for your IoT products, when you could just partner with Starbucks? It’s worked for Apple, ...
Credit-Scoring Tool Wecash Gains 5 Million Users in 12 Weeks
When services scale in China, they go big. Beijing-based credit-scoring platform Wecash recently counted more than 35 million users. Not too ...
Putting Bitcoin Where It Belongs, Circle Partners with Barclays in U.K.
It seems like Circle has cryptocurrency all figured out. The point of Bitcoin isn't just to use Bitcoin, despite what anarchists might ...
