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Apple Opens Shanghai Store Amid iPhone Troubles in China
Apple Opens Shanghai Store Amid iPhone Troubles in China
March 21, 2024  |  Apple

Apple’s new store opened in Shanghai on Thursday (March 21), with Tim Cook in attendance. The chief executive got “thunderous applause” from the crowd, according to a report by...

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ByteDance Chasing WeChat in the Super-App Race With Douyin
ByteDance Chasing WeChat in the Super-App Race With Douyin
June 14, 2023  |  Connected Economy

ByteDance, the parent company of popular social media app TikTok, is on a mission to become China’s next “everything app” to rival the success of WeChat by Tencent. ...

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Today In Payments Around The World: Checkout.com Lands $450 Million In Series C; Pakistan Rolls Out Instant Digital Payment System
Today In Payments Around The World: Checkout.com Lands $450 Million In Series C; Pakistan Rolls...
January 12, 2021  |  International

In today’s top payments news around the world, Checkout.com has brought its valuation to $15 billion after the closing of a $450 million Series C...

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Alibaba Investors In China Barred From Buying Its Stock In Hong Kong
Alibaba Investors In China Barred From Buying Its Stock In Hong Kong
February 12, 2020  |  Investments

Alibaba may be blocked from a new program in China that would allow investors in Hong Kong to buy its stocks. The program is intended...

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GlobalEcon Grows Chinese Presence With Shanghai Office
GlobalEcon Grows Chinese Presence With Shanghai Office
January 21, 2020  |  International

Global Economics Group (GlobalEcon) has branched out in China with the opening of an office in Shanghai, its second location in the country, the economic...

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China’s Didi Plans Rollout Of Robo-Taxi In Shanghai
China’s Didi Plans Rollout Of Robo-Taxi In Shanghai
November 19, 2019  |  Ridesharing

Chinese ride-hailing leader Didi Chuxing is planning to bring a robo-taxi service to Shanghai, CNBC reported on Tuesday (Nov. 19). “We are going to launch...

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Bitcoin Daily: Shanghai Gov’t Ordered To Launch Crypto Investigation; RippleNet Enables Vietnam-Japan Money Transfers
Bitcoin Daily: Shanghai Gov’t Ordered To Launch Crypto Investigation; RippleNet Enables Vietnam-Japan Money Transfers
November 18, 2019  |  Bitcoin

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and the Shanghai Municipal Financial Regulatory Bureau have announced that they will be inspecting companies that conduct cryptocurrency trading,...

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Chinese Regulators Move To Shutter P2P Lenders
Chinese Regulators Move To Shutter P2P Lenders
October 31, 2019  |  Regulation

Shanghai regulators are ordering more than 40 peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders to get ready to close shop, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Thursday (Oct. 31)....

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API Sandbox And Open Banking Collaboration Debut In UAE
API Sandbox And Open Banking Collaboration Debut In UAE
November 06, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Open banking and APIs make inroads into the United Arab Emirates, via sandbox. In Asia, FinTech and FI collaboration work via Temenos and SPD Bank...

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