July 31, 2023
TechREG Chronicle® – Telemedicine
Dear Readers, Telemedicine (or “telehealth”), broadly speaking, refers to remote clinical services, via real-time two-way communication between the patient and the healthcare provider, using electronic audio and/or visual means. Although...
July 31, 2023
Telemedicine Professional Medical Licensing and Payment Considerations
This article revisits the impact of COVID-19 policy accommodations on the proliferation of telemedicine and the impact now that the waivers and other items of policy flexibility are being rescinded....
July 21, 2023
Alipay and WeChat Pay Add Links to Visa and Mastercard
Visitors to China can now link their Visa and Mastercard accounts to the country’s most popular mobile payment applications, Alipay and WeChat Pay. Ant Group, the operator of Alipay, said Friday (July 21) that overseas users of...
July 21, 2023
Ant Group Senior VP Peng Yang to Lead International Business...
Ant Group has appointed its senior vice president, Peng Yang, as president of the company’s International Business Group (IBG). Yang will report to Eric Jing, chairman and CEO of Ant...
July 17, 2023
HyperPay Acquires Sanad Cash to Expand Payment Services in MENA
HyperPay, a payments services provider in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, has acquired Saudi spend management FinTech firm Sanad Cash. The strategic move was designed to bolster HyperPay’s...
July 11, 2023
Hotel Equities Partners With Grazzy and Visa Direct for Digital...
Hotel Equities has launched a digital tipping platform powered by Grazzy and Visa Direct. The platform provides guests staying at any of the firm’s hotels with a convenient, secure and cashless way...
July 11, 2023
Coin Use Plummets in Japan as Consumers Rethink Savings
High inflation in Japan has had an unintended victim: the piggy bank. As the Financial Times (FT) noted Monday (July 10) in a report on that country’s declining cash use,...
July 03, 2023
Ant Group Expands Payments Partnership With Italy’s Tinaba
Alipay and Tinaba have expanded their partnership to help Italian travelers make payments in Asia. Tinaba, a Milian-based payments company, announced in a press release the latest iteration of the team-up late Sunday...
June 28, 2023
Tencent to Allow Visa Credit Cards to Be Linked to...
Tencent will allow Visa credit cards to be linked to its WeChat app. When this ability is rolled out next month, foreign tourists visiting China will be able to pay...