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China's Digital Yuan Puts Ant, Tencent in an Awkward Spot
Business, Published on 27/07/2021
» China is calling on private-sector pioneers Ant Group Co. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. to help it develop a state-backed digital currency that threatens the pair's highly popular payment networks.
China's bank lending gets a digital revolution
News, Published on 20/02/2020
» China's economy is growing at its lowest rate in over 30 years, but if the country's nearly 40 million small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) could overcome a lack of access to funding, they could become a powerful engine of economic dynamism. Can digital innovators close the SME financing gap?
Jack Ma’s $290bn loan machine changes Chinese banking
Published on 29/07/2019
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The coming battle for e-commerce
Business, Published on 12/02/2018
» With the Bank of Thailand issuing regulations to govern financial institutions engaged in the e-marketplace, the domestic e-commerce arena is poised for local firms to battle it out with foreign e-commerce behemoths.