SEOUL, Apr. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Alipay, China’s leading mobile payment platform, said Saturday that it does not provide any commercial service for a major hotel in Pyongyang and has “strict measures” in place to block such transactions there. The denial came a day after Beijing-based Koryo Tours, which specializes in tours to North Korea, [...]
HANGZHOU, China and DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group, and The Dubai Mall, the world’s largest and most-visited retail and entertainment destination, located in the heart of the prestigious Downtown Dubai, today jointly announced that Chinese mainland [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Tourists from China spent an average of US$3,007 in South Korea last year, a survey showed Tuesday, with duty-free shops and cosmetics stores as the most popular shopping locations here. The average on-location spending by Chinese tourists during their visits to South Korea, excluding tour group fees and costs [...]
HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”, “Ant”), recently announced an upgraded smart outbound tourist service platform at a meeting of ecosystem partners from over 20 countries and territories in Beijing. The platform connects Chinese tourists with merchants, [...]
HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”, “Ant”), today announced that it has signed separate MoUs with Finpro (Finland), Svensk Handel (Sweden) and the Scandinavian Tourist Board, which will enable merchants across Nordic region to accept payment via [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao has announced that it has added QR code identification technology that will enable users to process payments with a simple snapshot to its Kakao Pay service. The technology is currently available on Kakao’s Chinese counterparts Alipay and WeChat Pay. Users snap photos of QR cards in shops and [...]
HANGZHOU, China and CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting today, Chinese tourists in South Africa will have more opportunities to pay via smartphone as Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”, “Ant”), partners with Zapper, the fast-growing mobile payment, customer insights [...]
HANGZHOU, China, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”, “Ant”), is now available for Mainland Chinese tourists at all 242 Starbucks branches across Malaysia. Chinese tourists can find a nearest Starbucks through the in-app Discovery platform, and pay for their [...]
HANGZHOU, China, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform and lifestyle super app operated by Ant Financial Services Group, today announced its partnership with VTB Group, one of Russia’s leading banking groups. VTB Group has recently started merchant acquiring for Alipay payments service in its over-120,000-POS-device network, which [...]
LONDON, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”, “Ant”), today announced that it has signed a MoU with the Government of Monaco, which will enable merchants in Monaco to accept payment via Alipay, giving Chinese tourists the same convenient payment [...]