41 results about this entity
Period: 13 Oct 2004 - 08 Apr 2024
News/regulation
Ant Group is resisting pressure from China's government to hand over more customer data to the country's central bank, according to the Financial Times.
03 March 2021
News/crypto
The central banks of China and the United Arab Emirates are joining their counterparts in Thailand and Hong Kong on a CBDC project investigating cross-border foreign currency payments.
23 February 2021
Swift has set up a joint venture with the Chinese central bank's digital currency research institute and clearing centre.
08 February 2021
The Agricultural Bank of China has equipped a number of ATMs with the means for customers to deposit and withdraw the central bank's new digital currency.
13 January 2021
The People's Bank of China held a lottery over the weekend to distribute 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) worth of its new digital currency to 50,000 people in Shenzhen.
13 October 2020
News/payments
China's antitrust agency is pondering an investigation into Alipay and WeChat Pay after the country's central bank raised concerns about the mobile payment behemoths, according to Reuters.
03 August 2020
Ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing has signed on to trial China's central bank digital currency on its transportation platform.
09 July 2020
China's digital currency plans are gathering pace, with trials taking place across four cities and reports emerging that big-name western players such as Starbucks and McDonald's are set to take part in testing.
23 April 2020
News
Mastercard has received approval from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) to begin formal preparations to set up a domestic bankcard clearing institution in the country.
11 February 2020
American Express has taken another step towards entering the massive Chinese payments market after the country's central bank accepted the US firm's application to start a bank card clearing business.
09 January 2020
PayPal has become the first foreign firm to get an online payments license in China after buying a 70% stake in Guofubao Information Technology Co (GoPay).
30 September 2019
More details have emerged around China's plans to issue its own digital coin following a lecture given by a senior official at the central bank.
06 September 2019
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