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22-Jan-19 China’s tech boomtown of Shenzhen has eased Hong Kong out of Asia’s top five cities by economic output. The burgeoning southern metropolis booked a 2018 GDP of CNY2.4 tn (USD356 bn), representing a year-on-year surge of 7.5%. [image: Twitter]
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21-Dec-18 JCB International has introduced a QR Code Payment service in Taiwan and Vietnam, that will enable cardholders to make payments by scanning the QR Code at the merchant point-of-sale. [Image: JCB]
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21-Jan-19 As Chinese consumers increasingly vacation overseas, their mobile-payment apps are following them, and offering a new way for merchants to attract customers. More than half of businesses saw an increase in foot traffic and transaction size after adopting Alipay. [image: Nielsen / Alizila]
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20-Jan-19 Bupa has acquired Turkish company Acıbadem Sigorta, a specialist health insurance provider with both corporate and individual customers, headquartered in Istanbul, with over 500 employees, covering 600,000 customers and gross written premiums of TRY913 mn (USD173 mn). [image: Bupa Newsroom]
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14-Jan-19 Malaysian consumers can now conduct instant P2P payments using just the recipient's mobile phone, passport or identity card number, with the go-live of the country's Real Time Payments platform Payments Network Malaysia (PayNet), powered by ACI Worldwide. [image: Finextra]
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