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Feb

China works to stem the money outflow by freezing the QDLP investment program

For many years, the Chinese government has encouraged cross-border investment, both to support the domestic stock markets, but to also give domestic investors more choice in investment options and products. One such program was the QDLP program or Qualified Domestic Limited Partner scheme. Due to the renewed focus on controlling…

Feb

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Digital Payments and Tourism: Lakala bought out by Tibet Tourism

A tightening regulatory policy towards third party payment has driven China’s payment industry into a period of consolidation and M&A. For some, this has been a great opportunity to get into other segments of the market like O2O (online to offline). We saw this in 2015 when Wanda bought 99bill.…

Feb

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UnionPay’s data arm collaborates with a global advertising network to combine card transaction and consumer behavior data

In January 2015, UnionPay Smart, a China UnionPay company specialized in business intelligence, customer profiling and online marketing, announced an agreement with Isobar China, a part of global Top-5 advertising conglomerate Dentsu Aegis. Together with Isobar China, UnionPay Smart will build a data management platform (DMP) targeting online advertising.

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