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02-May-18 In the fruit trade it pays to understand e-commerce platforms, so much so that Frutacloud CEO George Liu believes ‘e-retail’ is a better term for the phenomenon which is sweeping its way towards 20% penetration in the fresh produce market. [image: Fresh Fruit Portal]
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02-May-18 Whether it is buying retail companies or building a global fintech business that includes not just payments but also online banking, wealth management and insurance, investments being made by Alibaba and Tencent are expected to reap substantial returns. [image: My Stock]
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01-May-18 Mobile payment has become more popular in China's rural areas as Internet technology has made transactions faster and more convenient in remote places. Transactions through non-banking mobile payment services totaled USD6.8 tn in rural areas in 2017. [image: China Plus]
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27-Apr-18 Ping An, which operates China’s largest online healthcare platform, Good Doctor, has raised USD1.12 bn in its initial public offering, pricing its shares at the top of its range in Hong Kong’s largest new listing to date in 2018. [image: Reuters]
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27-Apr-18 Ant Financial, a unit of Alibaba, is buying a 20 percent stake in Bangladeshi mobile financial services provider bKash. Established in 2010, bKash runs a network of more than 180,000 agents with over 30 million registered accounts. [image: Reuters / Bobby Yip]
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