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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean location-based coupon application provider YAP Company on Thursday launched a new app that provides Chinese tourists with various tourism-related information, including shopping and transportation. The app, dubbed KAYO, provides a selection of coupons and other information for 100,000 local shops at popular tourist destinations, including Seoul’s major shopping [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Pay, the proprietary mobile payment service developed by Samsung Electronics, will be introduced in its home market soon as a beta service. Samsung Card announced on July 6 that it would recruit beta testers for Samsung Pay until July 10. The beta testers will experience the Samsung Pay service [...]
SEJONG, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to push for financial deregulation to make it easier for people to transfer money across borders without going through banks, the government said Sunday. The move aims to allow securities firms, insurers and most importantly FinTech companies to handle transfers that can help lower fees and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – An increasing number of global companies try to jump on the “Fintech” bandwagon. Fintech, a compound word between finance and technology, encompasses services such as mobile payment, mobile money transfer, crowd funding and the like. Investment volume on fintech skyrocketed by three-folds only in five years. According to management [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently the so-called “fintech” has been in vogue. A compound word between finance and technology, fintech encompasses services such as mobile payment, mobile money transfer, crowd funding, and the like. The main reason the word fintech has become more familiar with us is services like KakaoPay by Kakao Inc. and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – It was reported that e-commerce transactions is possible only by typing in one’s username and password as early as late September or as late as early October, as currently available with two e-commerce platform providers: PayPal, an international e-commerce business allowing Internet payments and money transfers, and Alipay, a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – While Kakao is scheduled to offer an online credit card payment service next month, it is considering an “Uber-like” call taxi service as well. From September, Kakao, the operator of Korea’s largest mobile messenger service, will begin providing credit card online payment service in partnership with nine card companies including [...]