GlobalCollect, an Ingenico Group company, and UnionPay International, a subsidiary of the global payment network China UnionPay,have unveiled a worldwide partnership that sees GlobalCollect become a worldwide acquirer for the UnionPay network. UnionPay is the number one international card brand in the world measured by the number of cards issued.
With the agreement, GlobalCollect can now connect its client base of leading, international
GlobalCollect and UnionPay announce worldwide acquiring partnership
eCommerce companies with the holders of 4.5 billion UnionPay cards, creating access to rapidly growing eCommerce markets across Asia and beyond.
Merchants offering their consumers to pay with UnionPay cards through GlobalCollect now benefit from faster boarding and implementation, full service processing and consolidated reporting. GlobalCollect processes UnionPay payments in over 90 authorization currencies worldwide.
“eCommerce is booming in China and across Asia Pacific, with Chinese consumers in particular increasingly shopping for international brands. This is driving a boom in cross-border commerce to China and creates huge opportunities for GlobalCollect merchants,” said Mark Patrick, General Manager Asia Pacific at GlobalCollect. “GlobalCollect represents the top tier of international eCommerce merchants, and with this partnership in place, we can now help these merchants expand their regional footprint and connect with millions of consumers from China and beyond.”
According to “The Global Impact of Chinese e-Commerce”, online cross-border shoppers (known as “hai tao” in China) are expected to spend $22.68 billion by 2014, an increase of more than 80% from 2013. Popular products among the hai tao include luxury items such as cosmetics, clothing and perfume. Other rapidly growing sectors of the digital economy include travel, with digital travel sales in China expected to increase by 34.2% year over year to $8.72 billion in 2014, and gaming, with online game revenue in China forecasted to surpass $16.3 billion in 2014 and then exceed $32.5 billion in 2017.
“Chinese consumers are increasingly participating in the global online marketplace, as evidenced by the rapid growth in the number of cross-border transactions that UnionPay International enables,” said Hong Tao, General Manager, Sales and Support Department at UnionPay International. “GlobalCollect represents some of the world’s premier online merchants in retail, travel and digital goods, and our partnership with GlobalCollect further expands the range of high quality, international products and services that are available to our cardholders.”
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