• WeChat for Business: What Marketers Need to Know

    19-04-27  849
    How to use

    Are you curious about WeChat? Wondering how to get your business in front of over a billion people on WeChat? In this article, you’ll discover how WeChat’s features can help you market your business. ......

  • Chart of the Day: China’s Mobile Payment Transaction ...

    19-04-22  839
    How to use

    China has seen an explosive growth in mobile payments over the past five years. Transaction volume reached 277.4 trillion yuan ($41.51 trillion) in 2018, up more than 28 times from five years ago, according to the People’s Bank of China (PBOC). ......

  • What is Alipay? WeChat Pay? How to pay Like a Local ...

    19-04-20  806
    How to use

    Interested in learning how China is leading the digital payment revolution? Living in China and want to get in on it yourself? Or are you a business owner with tons of Chinese customers hoping to make their buying experience easier? If so, this is the article for you. ......

  • Here’s a tour of WeChat, the greatest mobile app in the ...

    19-04-18  836
    How to use

    It can be used to call taxis, book train and bus tickets, cinema tickets, order food, pay bills and do just about everything they could ever want to do that includes ‘communication’ with someone else. It is like Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Yelp, Square, and Snapchat rolled into one, with a hundre ......

  • Alipay has tripled its merchants in Europe amid 'booming' ...

    19-04-13  1001
    How to use

    Alipay is making big inroads in Europe as Chinese tourists flock to the region, according to the leader of the Chinese firm's European division. ......

  • In China, striving for accuracy in a piece of facial recog...

    19-04-11  839
    How to use

    In China, striving for accuracy in a piece of facial recognition software isn’t enough. As Alibaba’s e-wallet affiliate Alipay has recently demonstrated, the way software presents a user’s look is also crucial to its success. ......

  • Cartier, Bulgari and other luxury brands are flocking to W...

    19-04-10  822
    How to use

    Not long ago, people in China would need to visit a posh, stylish mall for luxury shopping. That’s rapidly changing as high-end brands race to embrace digital channels, which aren’t just the obvious options of ecommerce platforms or brand-owned sites.  ......

  • Alipay partners European e-wallets for a common QR code ...

    19-04-07  1031
    How to use

    Six mobile wallets in Europe, together with Alipay, will collaborate and adopt a unified QR code for mobile payments, allowing users of each wallet to pay for their purchases across 10 countries in the continent. ......

  • What is SWIFT Code?

    19-04-05  818
    Payment related

    SWIFT code is a standard format of Bank Identifier Codes (BIC) and serves as a unique identifier for a bank or financial institution. These codes are used when transferring money between banks, particularly for international wire transfers. On top of that, the code is used to transmit messages be ......

  • Alipay is investing $145 million to grow women's soccer in ...

    19-04-04  814
    How to use

    Hong Kong (CNN Business)China's national women's soccer team just got a big boost from online payments app Alipay. ......

  • HTTPS

    19-04-03  803
    Glossary

    A communications protocol for secure communications over a computer network. ......

  • ACH

    19-04-01  1056
    Glossary

    Automated Clearing House – group of processing institutions linked by a computer network to process electronic payment transactions between financial institutions. ......

  • ABA Routing Number

    19-03-25  1077
    Glossary

    A unique nine-digit number assigned to each banking institution, used to identify the bank and direct ACH debits and credits. The ABA routing number is usually found at the bottom of a personal or business check. ......

  • API

    19-03-25  985
    Glossary

    Advanced Programming Interface – APIs allow users to program to a pre-constructed interface, instead of individually programming a device or piece of software. ......

  • Currency Codes

    19-03-21  1113
    Glossary

    The International Organization for Standardization publishes a list of standard currency codes referred to as the ISO 4217 code list. Currency codes are composed of a country's two-character Internet country code plus a third character denoting the currency unit. For example, the Canadian Dolla ......