Alipay has just announced that its AI Pay payment solution, enabling secure and seamless transactions between AI agents, exceeded 120 million transactions in the past week, as agentic commerce volume surges in China.
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Global money transfer platform Thunes and UnionPay International have launched a direct payment connection enabling faster transfers into China’s mainland, supporting real-time or near-real-time crediting to UnionPay debit cards.
HSBC’s latest regional economic forecast projects that GDP growth in the Asia ex-Japan region will moderate to around 4.5% in 2026, down from an estimated 4.9% expansion in 2025, with slower activity anticipated across several major economies. This outlook reflects concerns about weakening export demand and uncertainties around the contribution of artificial intelligence (AI)-related investment […]
The AQ PC platform by Ant Group now offers two main AI functions for medical professionals: Health Q&A and DeepSearch. Together, these tools assist with medical literature search, clinical practice, and research, helping reduce daily workload and improve access to reliable medical information.
Alipay has launched the Agentic Commerce Trust Protocol in collaboration with several partners, including Alibaba’s own consumer-facing AI application Qwen App, Taobao Instant Commerce, Rokid, Damai, and Alibaba Cloud’s Bailian platform.
CES 2026 witnessed an increasing push for global cross-industry collaboration around open-source AI models. Chinese tech companies, like Alibaba or Deepseek, were notably primary advocates for such cooperation mechanisms.
Alipay’s Tap! contactless payment service now processes more than 100 million daily transactions, underlining the fast-growing embrace of tap-to-pay and QR-based solutions in China and across Asia.
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OCBC is set to become the first Singapore bank to let customers scan and pay virtually any major merchant QR code in mainland China, marking a breakthrough in seamless cross-border payments.
As we edge toward 2026, Morgan Stanley is signaling cautious optimism: moderate global growth paired with easing inflation and strategic AI-driven investments could make next year a quiet but meaningful win for risk assets. With the S&P 500 potentially climbing 14% and global GDP forecast at 3.2%, investors get the chance to leverage structural trends […]
New JCB data on rapidly rising cross-border spending reveal the growing popularity of European locations among Asian tourists, while APAC consumers also increase their payment volumes at EU online stores.
Tech giants’ plans to issue stablecoins in Hong Kong are reportedly on hold, as Chinese authorities instructed them not to proceed with such initiatives, fearing they might undermine state control over financial industry.
China’s eight-day “Golden Week” holiday – running from October 1 to 8 and coinciding with both the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day – has sparked a surge in cross-border travel among Chinese tourists as well as their spending via Alipay.
WeLab and Google partner to potentially deliver AI-powered financial services to 500 million users by 2032.
Unified QR payment infrastructure helps international trading partners to avoid all the unpleasant aspects of fragmented cross-border payment systems. For China and Indonesia, UnionPay International aims to facilitate the task.
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