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ZAN is powered by technical innovations from AntChain Open Labs. Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, the creator of the world’s biggest payment platform Alipay, is expanding its foothold into the crypto industry with the launch of ZAN, a blockchain service platform aimed at both Hong Kong and global markets to simplify the complexities of blockchain technology. In a press release published on September 8, the company’s CEO Zhang Hui announced the launch of ZAN during a conference in Shanghai,...

Obst- und Gemüse-Stand bei Aldi Süd nach Modernisierung, 2017 Foto: CC 4.0 by Dns ktv, Wikipedia Als erster Lebensmittelhändler in Deutschland führt Aldi Süd das Onlinebezahlsystem Alipay ein, welches zum chinesischen Amazon-Pendant – der Alibaba Group – gehört. Während die Nutzung von Alipay bis vor Kurzem lediglich Kunden mit einem chinesischen Bankkonto offenstand, ist die...

Klar, die Frage ist auf einem derartigen Blog etwas provokant. Aber berechtigt: TransferWise ist nämlich das nächste europäische Fintech, das mit Alipay kooperiert. Und da Bitcoin in einigen chinesischen Apps wie WeChat usw. zensiert wird, ist Transferwise eines der ganz wenigen grossen Unternehmen, dessen Netzwerk nun ab sofort bis nach China hinein reicht! Und zudem ist eine Transaktion mit Transferwise inetwa gleich günstig wie eine Bitcoin-Transaktion zu „Stosszeiten“. Wer...

Thanks to teh partnership between TransferWise and Alipay, 7 million-plus users of TransferWise will be able to send Chinese yuan from 17 currencies to users of Alipay.TransferWise has entered a new partnership with Alipay. Sources say that the remittance company will be able to send money to Alipay users. This expands TransferWise’s offerings to its current user base of about 7 million people. Alipay has one of the widest payment networks in the world covering about 1.2 billion people. Many...

All of the products being offered by Ripple regularly are drawing new partners for the blockchain company. Ripple already has an interesting list of companies that currently use different RippleNet products for their core functions. Now, two new partners, including Bottomline Technologies and Tranglo, are joining the Ripple team. In addition to this, the U.S. Treasury might be throwing its back behind the company as well.Bottomline Technologies Partners with RippleAccording to the company’s...

Tencent Holdings Ltd. and China UnionPay Co. announced they plan to bring together their mobile codes that users scan to pay for purchases. In that way, the Chinese central bank gets a much larger niche network inside the $27 trillion payments playground.Both companies decided to consolidate their QR code systems so their users will be able to transfer or spend their assets just by using the same smartphone symbols.However, from the companies, they didn’t want to elaborate. The Tencent...

While it may not be in the normal scheme of things for fintech companies to make it big within just a few years of operations, fintech startup Nubank has done that. Sources indicate that the Brazilian startup has gone from strength to strength and has become one of the leading forces in the global fintech space due to a few gutsy moves by its CEO David Vélez. It all started when David was reading about how mobile apps were now being used to manage money in a new and different way in China...

Coinspeaker The People’s Bank of China Set to Create New Standards for Fintech and Blockchain The People's Bank of China has a plan to create a new set of standards for both fintech and blockchain industries in the nearest future. The People’s Bank of China Set to Create New Standards for Fintech and Blockchain Continue reading at Coinspeaker

Leading financial services company Alipay has indicated that it will enable 10 million European small and medium enterprises to be able to reach more than 2 billion customers which come from all corners of the world to Europe. Alipay intends to do this within the next five years. The payment service indicated this yesterday at the Alipay Partners Global Summit which held in London. It also expanded its partnership with Worldline which is its principal acquirer in the region and also...

Although China has introduced an absolute ban on cryptocurrencies in 2017, the country has been making major developments in the blockchain space. Currently, China holds the most number of patents in the blockchain sector, leading its rival U.S. by a considerable margin.In a move to dominate the blockchain industry, Chinese president Xi Jinping has urged the country to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technologies. In the future, the country with higher technological superiority will...