What's New in Payments

Beijing offers public transport users discounts to encourage digital yuan fare payments

The Ruubypay app running on a phone

Passengers on bus, subway and suburban rail services in the Chinese capital Beijing can now receive a discount and pay as little as 0.01 yuan for their journey if they use the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) to pay their fares from a digital yuan mobile wallet issued by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China... More