Revamped Tata Neu to bet on loyalty, financial services: Tata Digital CEO Sajith SivanandanTata Digital is pivoting Tata Neu from a broad commerce aggregator to a loyalty-led financial services platform, focusing on payments, inve...
21 Apr, 2026, 09.26 AM IST
Alibaba's China ecommerce platforms to accept Tencent's Wechat PayAlibaba is affiliated with the Jack Ma-founded Ant Group's Alipay, which is WeChat's main rival for online payments in China. Tencent has a...
04 Sep, 2024, 02.38 PM IST
China seeks to make travel, payments easier for foreignersChina is implementing measures to make it easier for foreign tourists to visit the country, including simplifying the process to book ticke...
30 Sep, 2023, 03.02 PM IST
Chinese banks 'far less digital' than Indian lenders, says KV KamathChinese banks are lagging behind Indian lenders in terms of digitalization, according to veteran banker K V Kamath. Despite being early ado...
07 Sep, 2023, 09.01 PM IST
Chinese payment giants Tencent and Ant revive effort to accept foreign credit cardsTencent, operator of the popular chat app WeChat and payment network WeChat Pay, said on Wednesday that WeChat users overseas can link cred...
28 Jun, 2023, 02.58 PM IST
Tencent launches palm-based payments in China: ReportAccording to reports, users can pay for rides on the Daxing Airport Express Line in the capital by holding their hands over a scanner at me...
22 May, 2023, 04.26 PM IST
Tencent bets big on WeChat Channels in push to build its own TikTokWeChat Pay became the second-biggest player in China's mobile payment market within a year of its 2013 launch, behind Alipay which is owned...
13 Jan, 2023, 02.19 PM IST
China weighs Tencent payments overhaul, new license requirementThe potential move would present a fresh hurdle for Tencent, which along with other internet firms was told in 2021 to cordon off financial...
18 Mar, 2022, 12.28 PM IST
China regulators should act further to free up apps' access to rivals' links: State paperAccording to the Economic Information Daily, this showed companies could not be relied on to carry out "self rectification", and government...
19 Oct, 2021, 11.30 AM IST
Alibaba apps start offering WeChat Pay option after government ordersEarlier this month, the ministry of industry and information technology said it had asked internet companies to end a long-standing practic...
28 Sep, 2021, 11.18 AM IST
Softbank, Yahoo JV launches digital payment service in Japan with PaytmWith this partnership the company will be installing QRcode based payment solutions to digitise consumer retail payments in Japan by the se...
27 Jul, 2018, 10.39 AM IST
WeChat app crosses one billion account markHalf of WeChat users spend more than 90 minutes a day on the app.
06 Mar, 2018, 07.56 PM IST
WhatsApp forays into digital payments spaceThe messaging app’s entry into digital payments could massively disrupt the peer-to-peer payments industry.
19 Feb, 2018, 06.30 AM IST
It's becoming harder to use cash in China: Fully chargedEven beggars in China reportedly accept handouts via WeChat, using QR codes linked to payment accounts. (Some have cautioned that this phen...
13 Feb, 2018, 06.02 PM IST
Paytm plans to launch messaging service to rival WhatsApp by end of this monthPaytm’s move seems to be in the reverse direction compared to Hike, which recently launched payments through wallet and unified payment int...
01 Aug, 2017, 05.52 PM IST
Paytm looks to sell offline with its QR shopping techConsumers can shop products from Paytm Mall by scanning the QR code given by Paytm to its offline merchant partners.
10 Apr, 2017, 08.02 AM IST
Flipkart, Jabong bet on instant messaging to acquire customers, facilitate paymentsThe two companies also partnered with Japanese messaging app Line, which has a feature that allows users to make payments using credit card...
20 Jan, 2015, 11.09 AM IST