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26-Oct-18 45 percent of Chinese companies expect business travel spending to increase in the coming year. Business travel expenditure on domestic China trips has increased by 18 percent over 2017, indicating business activity within tier-two and -three cities is rising. [image: Tourism News / eTN.travel]
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23-Oct-18 Following a strategic partnership between Ant Financial's Alipay and Korean payment system integrator Kakaopay, all taxis in Seoul will accept Alipay from Jan-19. The service will take payment from Chinese visitors via Alipay and locals via Kakaopay. [image: Alipay / Payment Week]
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17-Oct-18 Singapore e-payments provider Nets is in talks with WeChat Pay to allow its users to make mobile payments in China. The partnership would allow NetsPay users to scan QR codes in China and settle purchases in Singapore dollars. [image: South China Morning Post]
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08-Oct-18 Singapore's largest bank DBS is attempting to disrupt the traditional business model of physical branches in Indonesia with a branchless smartphone platform, 'digibank'. After DBS rolled out digibank in India in 2016, it captured over 2 mn customers. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]
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05-Oct-18 ICICI Bank announced a multi-year partnership with Bhubaneswar city, capital of the state of Odisha in India, to launch a Common Payment Card System which will help citizens use a single payment option for multi-purpose city-level usage. [image: OTV]
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