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06-Feb-18 Standard Bank has inked a deal with Chinese payment company UnionPay to accept its cards in African markets by the end of 2018. The deal will open China's e-commerce marketplace to the bank's customers in 20 African countries. [image: IT Web Africa]
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05-Feb-18 For the first time, non-Chinese shoppers in greater China will be able to use China’s mobile payment platform WeChat Pay, following an update that allows users to link accounts with non-Chinese credit cards issued by Visa, Mastercard and JCB. [image: Power Retail]
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03-Feb-18 The Chinese mainland market for mobile payment transactions, which reached USD5.5 tn in 2016, is poised for further expansion as many consumers and businesses go cashless in more than 600,000 villages across China. [image: EPA]
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31-Jan-18 Chinese national statistics show the rise of mobile payments in China slowed in 2017, with the proportion of Internet users that pay with their phones rising from 50% to 65%, and most new users coming from rural areas. [image: TechNode]
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29-Jan-18 Cash is still king in Japan, and that means the central bank doesn’t see a need to mint a digital currency for now, according to the head of the FinTech Center at the Bank of Japan. [image: Bloomberg]
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