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435Global PaymentsThyngs Teams With CDS Global; Alipay Partners With Turkish FinTech
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Thyngs work with CDS Global to support...
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1.2KDigital PaymentsWeChat Pay, Alipay Banned In Nepal
WeChat Pay and Alipay, the Chinese digital payment apps, have been banned in Nepal due to a loss of income as a...
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2.2KRetailHow Connected Consumers Tap Into In-Store Smartphone Shopping Features
Smartphones fit squarely in the center of the social and digital lives of many shoppers — and provide these consumers with constant...
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1.6KGlobal PaymentsSweden’s Anyfin Notches €8M; Oman Arab Bank Debuts NFC Rewards
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Sweden-based Anyfin’s €8 million extended Series A...
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3.1KeCommerceKlarna Powers Alipay ‘Pay Later’ Option
Three popular payment companies, Alipay, Adyen and Klarna, have teamed up to allow AliExpress shoppers to use Klarna’s “Pay Later” option for...
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2.0KGlobal PaymentsPaySend Debuts Payment App; PFS Teams With Garmin Pay
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. PaySend, a U.K. FinTech firm, has debuted an...
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1.6KGlobal PaymentsSonect Gets eMoney License In Lithuania; Alipay Teams With HarkHark For Mobile Orders
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Sonect obtaining an eMoney license in Lithuania....
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6.6KGlobal PaymentsViva Air To Tap Into Mobile Payments; Bookme Closes Pre-Series A Funding Round
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes CellPoint Mobile’s plans to enable mobile payments...
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2.6KGlobal PaymentsKOKU Notches $2M In Funding; Citi Taps Into Biometrics In Asia
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the $2 million pre-series A raise...
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3.4KDigital PaymentsAlipayHK And McDonalds Hong Kong Team Up For In-App Payment
AlipayHK, a mobile payment system in Hong Kong, has partnered with McDonald’s to offer payment on the McDonald’s app on smartphones, the...
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3.7KGlobal PaymentsTransferWise Formally Rolls Out PayNow Payments; Klarna Unveils Open Banking Platform
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the formal rollout of payments via PayNow...
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3.0KGlobal PaymentsAPEXX Payments Marketplace Debuts In Russia; Citcon Connects With ACCEO For Mobile Payments
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the debut of global payment marketplace APEXX’s...
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3.9KPayment MethodsBarclaycard Brings Alipay To UK Retailers With New Deal
Barclaycard, the U.K. credit card and debit card payment processor, announced Thursday (March 14) it inked a new agreement with Alipay, the Chinese...
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3.9KGlobal PaymentsState Bank Of India Teams With FSS; AlipayHK Attains 2M Users
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the State Bank of India (SBI)’s...
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2.5KGlobal PaymentsSnapPay Teams With Alipay At FoodyMart; Soldo Awarded Irish eMoney License
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes SnapPay teaming up with Alipay to...
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4.4KPayment MethodsAlipay Comes To Canada
SnapPay, the Canadian cross-border payments company, and Alipay, the Chinese digital payments platform operated by Ant Financial Services, announced a collaboration Wednesday...
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4.0KAppleApple, Alipay Pair On Interest-Free iPhone Financing In China
In an attempt to increase iPhone sales in China, Apple has teamed up with Alipay to give potential buyers a more affordable...
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4.8KConsumer FinanceAlipay Will Charge Fees For Repayment By Credit Card
Mobile payment company Alipay is going to start charging a fee of 0.1 percent to customers who use the service to decrease their...
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3.5KRetailWhy North American Merchants Are Adopting Alipay In-Store (And Online)
To serve travelers from China who want to shop in-store and online, retailers thousands of miles away from Asia are accepting Alipay...
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2.4KData DiveData Dive, Signing On/Signing Off Edition: Amazon, Alipay, Payless And MoviePass
The world of payments and commerce isn’t moving at a snail’s pace these days. And last week’s events managed to qualify it...
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3.8KRetailRetail Pulse: Recess Opens ‘IRL’ Pop-Up In NY; Walgreens To Accept Alipay In More Stores
eCommerce brands are opening up pop-up shops in cities to test out brick-and-mortar retail, and Recess is using this platform to highlight...
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4.1KRetailSavvy Online Retailers Add Connected Consumer-Friendly Payment Options
With all sorts of digital services at their fingertips, consumers are looking for convenience when they purchase products or services. Consumers, for...
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3.8KMobile PaymentsAlipay Accepted At Walgreens Nationwide
Alipay’s mobile payment platform will now be available at thousands of Walgreens locations throughout the U.S. “Walgreens is focused on making shopping...
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3.5KGlobal PaymentsClickDishes Teams With Alipay For Mobile Orders
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the rollout of a mini-program for...
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2.9KGlobal PaymentsTHE LIST Teams With BitBay Pay; Monese Rolls Out Apple Pay Support
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes U.A.E.-based THE LIST bringing crypto payments...
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2.4KGlobal PaymentsAlipay Teams With Tourism Australia; MoneyTO Adds Serbia Transfer Service
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Tourism Australia and Alipay’s collaboration on...
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4.1KInternationalAlipay: Chinese Tourists Prefer Mobile Payments
Nielsen, a global information and measurement company, and financial services company Alipay teamed up to create a survey about the trends and habits...
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4.6KEcosystemsChinese P2P Falls As Other Payment Ecosystems Expand
Thanks to a nationwide crackdown on peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in China, a move that came after a series of multibillion dollar scams...
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5.8KB2B PaymentsAlipay In X-Border Blockchain Pact
Blockchain grabbed some headlines this past week as DLT helped foster new cross border payment initiatives, notably from Alipay and Ripple. Elsewhere,...
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2.7KGlobal PaymentsWirecard Teams With Cimple For Alipay, FamilyMart Plans Mobile Payment Service
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Wirecard’s collaboration with Cimple Marketing for...
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5.0KPartnerships / AcquisitionsAnt Financial Could Acquire UK’s WorldFirst For $700M
Ant Financial, the affiliate of Alibaba, is in discussions to pay around $700 million for U.K. payments company WorldFirst. The Financial Times...
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3.2KFintech InvestmentsAnt Financial Fancies Itself As A Technology Services Company
Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate, expects its core business will be technology services down the road as it expands beyond only payments....
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4.9KGlobal PaymentsBingxi Culture Works With Alipay For Art Sharing, Razer Pay Sees Interest From Brands
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the launch of China’s Bingxi Culture “art...
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6.3KInternationalAlipay Teams With UEFA For Mobile Payments At Soccer Games
With a new commerce deal for the soccer world, Ant Financial’s Alipay has partnered with Europe’s UEFA to bring its platform to events sanctioned...
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6.4KEarningsAnt Financial Posts Rare Quarterly Loss
Ant Financial, the Chinese FinTech giant and an affiliate of Alibaba Group, posted an earnings pre-tax loss of 2.4 billion yuan ($353 million...
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4.0KRetailHow Uber, Instagram And GUESS? Are Driving Platform Payment Innovation
To meet the demands of consumers hungry for digital payment options, a growing number of online platforms are changing the way that...
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5.2KB2B PaymentsAlipay Ramps Up Supply Chain, Lending Services To SMBs
Chinese payments conglomerate Alipay is ramping up its B2B services with a new suite of offerings for small businesses (SMBs). Reports in...
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8.6KSecurity & FraudHackers Steal Alipay Customers’ Money Via Stolen Apple IDs
Alipay, the mobile payment app, said Wednesday (October 10) that hackers stole money from accounts via stolen Apple IDs. Reuters, citing Ant...
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4.0KGlobal PaymentsGlobal Payments Links With Alipay; Grab And Fave Partner To Boost Growth
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Global Payments’ tie-up with Alipay to serve...
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3.6KGlobal PaymentsMarks & Spencer Rolls Out ‘Mobile, Pay, Go’; CIMB Teams With GHL Systems For QR Terminals
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Marks & Spencer’s roll out of its...
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3.4KPayments InnovationFaster Payments Go Live In Hong Kong
Hong Kong has launched the Faster Payments System (FSP), which allows users to send money almost instantly using a mobile number or...
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4.9KGlobal PaymentsNEW REPORT: The Payments Innovation Guide To Going Global
Whether in Australia, India, Europe or the United States, mobile phones aren’t just driving interconnectivity, but are the key channel driving innovation...
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4.9KSizzle/FizzleAR And VR Sizzle At Macy’s And Walmart, Amazon And Danske Bank Fizzle
Sizzle Of The Week: AR/VR’s Retail Gains Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have spent much of 2018 generating buzz as...
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Typhoon Won’t Delay Hong Kong’s Real-Time Payment Launch: HKMA
Financial service providers in Hong Kong are readying to facilitate real-time payments for both corporate and non-corporate customers as the market’s Faster...
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10.9KMobile PaymentsAlipay Has 700M Active Users
Eric Jing, Ant Financial’s executive chairman and CEO, revealed that Alipay now has over 700 million annual active users — an increase...
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4.6KB2B PaymentsChina, Alibaba Are Big Players On The Blockchain Patent Block
Patents can be the springboard to competitive advantage. In the blockchain space, China (and Alibaba) dominate new patent filings. Crypto crackdown aside,...
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3.7KInvestmentsNigeria’s Mobile Wallet Paga Snags $10M, Expands Cross-Border
Nigerian digital payments startup Paga has received $10 million in funding as it prepares to expand into other countries. CEO Tayo Oviosu announced at...
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5.4KInternationalAlipay To Collaborate With More Japanese Merchants
Alipay, the mobile and online payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services, announced on Wednesday (Sept. 5) that it will collaborate with...
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5.3KMPOS TrackerIn-Store Contactless Payments Volume To Reach $2T In 2020
Americans didn’t exactly rush to adopt contactless payments from the get-go. But, if worldwide trends are anything to go by, that could...
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4.6KMobile PaymentsAlipay In-Store Overseas Transactions Beat Summer 2017 By Factor Of 2.6
Alipay has revealed that it had a pretty good summer, with consumer spending surging over the last two months. “China is just...
