How UnionPay Turned a Two-horse Race into a 3-way Battle of Goliaths
If you have a bank card in China, it’s most certainly a UnionPay card, as it has reached near de ...
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Credit Cards In China: QR Codes Bring Transactions, But Social Interactions Bring Sales
Smart Brief quotes eMarketer regarding e-commerce sales in China surging 7.5 % this year, surpassing $5 trillion (and US e-commerce), ...
Western Union Sees Global B2B Payments As Growth Opportunity
The cross border payments space continues to attract both non-traditional and traditional players. Western Union could be thought of as ...
QR Codes: Suffocating Credit Cards in Asia or Extending Financial Inclusion?
QR codes allow payments to extend into developing markets with ease. Instead of requiring a point of sale acceptance device, ...
Myanmar Drives Towards QR Codes, With 74% Unbanked, This is a Large Step for Financial Inclusion
Myanmar, once known as Burma, has a 50 million population wedged in between India, China, and Thailand. Unlike its surrounding ...
Seoul Pay: A Korean Spin on Low Cost Payments
Korea pushed its residents towards payment cards for more than a decade. Financial inclusion is at the top of the ...
In Effort to Kill Cash, Singapore Launches QR Code Standard
This article has a blurry definition of digital payments which appears to simply exclude any electronic method that uses the ...
Another Use Case Found for QR Codes
Recently QR codes have seen a lot of media coverage in the payments industry. However, It would appear as though ...
QR Codes: Extending the Reach of Payments Anywhere in the World
QR codes are a simple solution to payment access everywhere in the world, except for one problem: multiple formats. In ...
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