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China’s CBDC Digital RMB App Launches Express Payment Function on WeChat Pay

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The Digital RMB app, which is China’s CBDC, has recently launched an express payment feature on WeChat Pay. The app is currently in a pilot phase and enables users to pay using their digital currency wallet, including the Alipay digital currency wallet. Users need to register with the same phone number associated with their WeChat […]

China’s mobile payment market overview 2023: Alipay vs. WeChat Pay

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QR code payment is still the most commonly used payment method for mobile payment users in China according to China Payment & Clearing Association’s research. “Which payment do you use more in daily life?”  According to recent research conducted by the China Payment & Clearing Association, QR code payment remains the most frequently used payment […]

UnionPay integrates with Alipay and WeChat Pay

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WeChat Pay has officially implemented mutual recognition and mutual scanning of offline QR codes with UnionPay’s Flash app. Users can scan WeChat payment codes through the UnionPay Flash payment app in provincial capitals across the country to complete payment.

WeChat Pay to provide incentives to merchants in Jan 2019

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WeChat is going to launch a new feature “Gifts upon payment” for WeChat Pay to get the small and medium merchants further engaged in January 2019. They can exchange those points with increased limits for balance withdrawal or VIP membership of Tencent Video, etc. 

[REPORT] WeChat digital ecosystem 2018: WeChat Pay, Official Accounts, Mini-Programs

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WeChat drove information consumption of 209.7 billion yuan in 2017, equivalent to 4.7% of China’s total information consumption over the same period. The average annual growth from 2014 onwards surpassed 30%, 12.8 percentage points higher than that of China’s information consumption. In 2017, China’s digital economy totaled 27.2 trillion yuan, an increase of 20.3% year-on-year, […]

WeChat Payment to Charge Service Fee

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WeChat Payment has recently updated its fund transfer policy. Fund transfers or face-to-face payment using WeChat Payment is still free if the total monthly transfer is no more than 20,000 yuan (US$3,143.1). The excess part would take 0.1% transaction fee. However, WeChat red envelope is still free of charges.

Tencent Got More Than WeChat Payment to Compete with Alipay on Mobile

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Tencent QQ’s monthly active users exceeded 829 million and MAUs on smart device exceeded 521 million according to Tencent’s finance report of first half of 2014. Tencent QQ was the first Chinese instant messenger in Guinness World Record for having the most number of simultaneous online users on an instant messaging platform on 3rd July, 2014. […]

WeChat Payment and Alipayment Wallet Strike

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These days the smoke of the war between Alibaba and Tencent was very thick. Wechat payment was regarded as the last key element to O2O. In fact, from the insiders’ perspective, Alipay has always been the rich handsome guy. Nowadays, Alipay could not stay calm anymore, which illustrated that WeChat payment came with full preparation.

Tencent Unveiled Big Ambition with Wechat Payment

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Last week Tencent announced that its own comprehensive online shopping site Yixun.com started fully support of Wechat payment on desktop client, Android and iOS mobile devices. Meanwhile, someone inside Yixun disclosed that Yixun would soon launch product ordering in Wechat under a single payment. By then, Wechat 5.0 users can simply click on any one […]