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Mobile wallet market worth $100 billion set to hit $250 billion by 2024

Mobile Wallet Market size was estimated to be over $100 billion in 2017 and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of more than 10% over the forecast timespan of... more

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American Express gets regulatory approval to enter Chinese payments market

American Express has won regulatory approval to become the first US credit card company to enter the Chinese payments market and start building its own payments network. The company said... more

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Chinese regulator mandates mobile payments clearing house

China’s central bank and regulator has mandated online and mobile payment groups to operate through a centralised clearing house, a move likely to undercut the dominance of Ant Financial and Tencent by forcing them to share valuable transaction data with competitors. China is the world leader in mobile payments, with transaction volumes rising nearly five-fold [...]

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Competition increases for China’s $5.5 trillion mobile payment market

China’s mobile payment market is more than 50 times bigger than that its US counterpart sitting at $5.5tn and is now being shaken up by its underdog Tencent, which is snatching market share from rival Alibaba. Alipay, which Alibaba launched in 2004 as a PayPal-type service to facilitate payments on its Taobao e-commerce platform, has long dominated [...]

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Tencent’s WeChat rides mobile payments wave

Tencent is not only China’s largest social network and online entertainment firm, it is now big in mobile payments. The company has quietly built one of the world’s largest mobile payments systems, with transactions which could total more than $500 billion this year, according to Reuters calculations. While most of Tencent’s money still comes from online gaming, [...]

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