China keen to realise digital yuan ambitions amid slow uptake
More than a month after China’s central bank upgraded the digital yuan from a cash equivalent to “digital…
Open Questions | Lawrence Lau on why China must ‘work smarter’ and how it can invent from scratch
Lawrence J. Lau is a Hong Kong economist specialising in economic development and East Asian economies. He was…
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group releases powerful AI model to rival DeepSeek and OpenAI
Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has released a new open-source, trillion-parameter large language model (LLM) that boasts stronger…
China sees uptick in ‘super golden week’ spending amid record travel surge
China logged a welcome uptick in spending on services during the just-concluded eight-day “super golden week” public holiday,…
Ant Group’s Alipay and Tencent’s Weixin Pay embrace China’s cross-border payment system
China’s two largest mobile payment services, Ant Group’s Alipay and Tencent Holdings’ Weixin Pay, have adopted a new…
TNG eWallet, AlipayHK Partner With Ant International To Protect Digital Transactions
TNG Digital has announced that it is collaborating with Ant International and AlipayHK to launch the Digital Wallet…