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473 news stories about China


What's New in Payments

Tencent and Ant to integrate digital yuan wallets into mobile banking apps

By Tom Phillips • 25 February 2021 • Updated 25 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Peoples Bank of China logo

Tencent-backed WeBank and Ant-backed MyBank are conducting “preliminary work under the guidance of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC)” in order to integrate the digital yuan wallet into their payment and banking services, according to a China Securities report... More


NFC World

General Motors to replace car keys with face biometrics?

By Tom Phillips • 17 February 2021 • Updated 17 February 2021 • nfcw.com
General Motors face biometrics in door frame for car access

General Motors (GM) may be looking to bring the biometric technology integrated into its Cadillac X4 vehicles in China to North America, enabling drivers to access their car using just face recognition... More


What's New in Payments

Postal Savings Bank of China trials biometric cards for digital currency payments

By Tom Phillips • 17 February 2021 • Updated 17 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Postal Bank of China sign

Chinese consumers taking part in the large-scale testing of the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) in Beijing over the Chinese New Year period are trialling a biometric ‘hard wallet’ card developed by the Postal Savings Bank of China... More


What's New in Payments

China’s central bank expands digital yuan pilot to Beijing

By Tom Phillips • 10 February 2021 • Updated 25 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Digital yuan Beijing red envelope pilot on JD.com app

The People’s Bank of China has launched the first large-scale giveaway of the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) to be held in Beijing and has distributed 10m digital yuan (US$1.55m) to 50,000 participants in a ‘red envelope’ lottery... More


What's New in Payments

Chinese consumers now make three mobile payments every day

By Tom Phillips • 5 February 2021 • Updated 5 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Smartphone making QR mobile payment in China

Chinese consumers made an average of three mobile payments a day during 2020, while 98% of the Chinese population consider mobile payments to be their most frequently used transaction method, an increase of five percentage points on last year, a new survey reveals... More


What's New in Payments

Chinese banks launch mobile wallets that let customers transact in digital yuan

By Tom Phillips • 27 January 2021 • Updated 27 January 2021 • nfcw.com
China's digital yuan on a smartphone

At least eight major banks, including Hong Kong-based China CITIC Bank, have now introduced or are in the process of introducing digital wallets that support China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to local media reports... More


What's New in Payments

PBOC to launch third digital yuan trial in Shenzhen

By Tom Phillips • 25 January 2021 • Updated 25 January 2021 • nfcw.com
Peoples Bank of China logo

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is to follow its pilots of NFC-based contactless digital currency payments with the distribution of a further 20m digital yuan (US$3.1m) in a third ‘red envelope’ lottery to be held in the city of Shenzhen... More


What's New in Payments

China unveils plan to build a global payment network based on central bank digital currencies

By Tom Phillips • 20 January 2021 • Updated 20 January 2021 • nfcw.com
China's BSN global payment network ecosystem diagram based on central bank digital currencies

China’s Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) has revealed plans to develop a universal digital payments network (UDPN) based on standardised procedures for international transfers and payments with and between central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)... More


What's New in Payments

Agricultural Bank of China pilots central bank digital currency ATMs

By Tom Phillips • 12 January 2021 • Updated 12 January 2021 • nfcw.com
People's Bank of China digital currency on smartphone screen

The Agricultural Bank of China has launched pilot ATMs that enable customers in Shenzhen to deposit and withdraw money in the form of digital yuan, the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC)... More


What's New in Payments

PBOC pilots contactless cards and wearables that let consumers make payments with China’s digital currency

By Tom Phillips • 8 January 2021 • Updated 8 January 2021 • nfcw.com
PBOC contactless card showing China's digital currency

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has expanded its central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot to include a contactless ‘hard wallet’ and NFC wearables that enable consumers to make in-store and transit fare payments with their digital yuan... More


What's New in Payments

PBOC to trial online and offline payment functions in second digital yuan red envelope giveaway

By Tom Phillips • 8 December 2020 • Updated 8 December 2020 • nfcw.com
JD.com courier delivering goods bought with digital yuan

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is to enable participants in the next phase of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot to test for the first time the use of digital yuan for making both online purchases and touch-based in-store offline payments... More


What's New in Payments

RBR: 100m merchants worldwide to accept card payments by end 2025

By Tom Phillips • 18 November 2020 • Updated 18 November 2020 • nfcw.com
RBR graph showing number of merchant outlets by scheme 2019

The number of outlets worldwide accepting card payments will reach nearly 100m by the end of 2025, an increase driven by government initiatives to promote cashless payments and by an acceleration in the move to contactless payments during the Covid-19 pandemic, research from RBR predicts... More


What's New in Payments

JCB reports 30% rise in contactless payments volumes

By Tom Phillips • 18 November 2020 • Updated 18 November 2020 • nfcw.com
JCB contactless payments adoption report Payment perspectives and future-gazing 2020

The number of contactless transactions made by some 140 million JCB cardholders across 24 markets increased by more than 30% between July 2019 and July this year, the Tokyo-based payments network reports in a new white paper... More


What's New in Payments

China to maintain central database of all digital currency transactions

By Tom Phillips • 11 November 2020 • Updated 11 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Front of the PBOC building, Beijing

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) will keep a database of all transactions made using the digital yuan, China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to China Daily... More


NFC World

Huawei integrates digital yuan hardware wallets into Mate 40 NFC smartphone

By Tom Phillips • 3 November 2020 • Updated 3 November 2020 • nfcw.com
Huawei Mate 40 smartphone with digital wallet

Owners of Huawei’s Mate 40 in China will be able to make transactions in digital yuan from a central bank digital currency (CBDC) hardware wallet built into the soon-to-be-released smartphone... More


NFC World

Xiaomi lets customers use NFC tags to control their smart home devices

By Tom Phillips • 30 October 2020 • Updated 30 October 2020 • nfcw.com
NXP NFC tags for Xiaomi app smart home control

Owners of Xiaomi smart home devices can now configure, link, control and monitor their lighting, security, entertainment systems and other domestic appliances simply by tapping an NFC sticker with their NFC-enabled smartphone... More


NFC World

NFC Forum reports on consumer attitudes and adoption trends across the world

By Sarah Clark • 29 October 2020 • Updated 29 October 2020 • nfcw.com
NFC Forum contactless usage infographic 2020

Seven in ten consumers are confident with the security contactless cards/mobile wallets provide and 88% report a consistently positive user experience with NFC contactless technologies, a survey of consumers in nine countries around the world has found... More


What's New in Payments

PBOC reports first counterfeit digital currency wallets

By Tom Phillips • 29 October 2020 • Updated 29 October 2020 • nfcw.com
Peoples Bank of China (PBOC) building

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has “found counterfeit digital yuan wallets on the market,” the head of the bank’s digital currency research institute Mu Changchun has revealed... More


What's New in Payments

Shenzhen residents spend nearly 9m digital yuan during CBDC pilot

By Tom Phillips • 21 October 2020 • Updated 21 October 2020 • nfcw.com
People's Bank of China digital currency on smartphone screen

China’s ‘red envelope’ lottery giveaway of digital yuan to 50,000 residents of Shenzhen resulted in 62,788 transactions with a total value of 8.764m yuan (US$1.32m) during the week-long central bank digital currency (CBDC) test in the city... More


What's New in Payments

Central bank digital currency lottery attracts 2m Shenzhen residents

By Tom Phillips • 14 October 2020 • Updated 14 October 2020 • nfcw.com

Nearly two million Shenzhen residents, representing 15% of the city’s population, signed up for a chance to win 200 digital yuan (US$29.65) in the ‘red envelope’ lottery held as part of China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot... More


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