Payments Research

Sep

TECNO: China’s home grown smartphone manufacturer has quietly taken over the African smartphone market

China’s Transsion Holdings, one of the major mobile phone manufacturers in the world and second largest smartphone vendor in Africa is known for owning mobile phone brands TECNO, itel and Infinix. It was the first Chinese smartphone manufacturer to explore the African market and have a smartphone plant in Africa.…

Sep

China Payments Research

So, What’s Next For Ant Financial?

Ant Financial is well established as the largest fintech in China. These past two years have been excellent for the company as they reached 450 million users with an average expenditure of 16,000 RMB through the Alipay platform. They recently started to make use of Alibaba’s acquired controlling stake of…

Aug

China Payments Research

QR Codes helped define Alipay and WeChat Pay, but now they might be their biggest challenge

QR-codes have been a boon for China’s 3rd Party Payment providers, but due to QR-Code standardization and the launch of China’s Online Settlement Platform for Non-Bank Payment Institutions, more colloquially known just as Wanglian, QR-codes could now be the payment giants’ biggest challenge.

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