Novatti Shares Soar 67 Percent On WeChat Distribution

Novatti said that the new collaboration gives the firm a “new recurring revenue stream,” which helps play into the traditional target audience of Chinese tourists. Financial Times said that Novatti will garner a monthly fee and commission fees, tied in part to how much business is generated for WeChat. The statistics are encouraging — Australia is slated to see more than 1 million visitors from Mainland China through this year, and WeChat is now top of the list in terms of rollout, as retailers take on the service (Novatti estimates it will be thousands of retailers).

In other expansion in Australia, Alibaba is slated to open an office Down Under later this year. That could be viewed as staking a claim on Alipay in the region as a conduit to residential and business payments.