Get this: Chinese tourists made 137,000 trips to Canada in the first quarter of 2019 and on average, each tourist spent $2,300 during their trip.  Canadian vendors who accept Chinese mobile payments made the most in this tourist boom.  Chinese tourists keep very little cash on them as their go-to medium is mobile payments. In...

Global payments solution SnapPay announced the rollout of facial recognition payment technology for North American merchants. SnapPay said the technology gives users greater convenience and security when shopping at mainstream retailers. Although it is based on the same tech that is available now in Asia, SnapPay is initially launching in North America to select retailers.

TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SnapPay, Inc., provider of international payment solutions, today announced how small and independent businesses can easily offer popular Chinese mobile payment applications, Alipay and WeChat Pay. Offering Chinese mobile payments provides small businesses in North America the opportunity to secure substantial incremental revenue and drive customer loyalty. With SnapPay’s payment gateway, retailers and merchants can accept preferred Chinese payment...

TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sleep Country Canada Inc. and SnapPay, Inc., a leading provider of alternate payment solutions, today announced the first phase of its pilot program, enabling Chinese consumers to pay with popular mobile payments applications, Alipay and WeChat Pay, at its 21 store locations in the Greater Toronto area (GTA) and Greater Vancouver Area (GVA).

TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The University of British Columbia Bookstore and payment gateway provider SnapPay, Inc., today announced the successful launch of their Alipay and WeChat payment acceptance program, allowing Chinese international students to use the popular Chinese payment apps at its main campus bookstore location in Vancouver.

Alipay, the mobile payment processing service that emerged from Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is expanding its Canadian presence. The company is partnering with mobile payment app SnapPay in a move that will allow Alipay’s 520 million global users to use their Alipay mobile wallets to pay for products and services at participating Canadian merchants that accept SnapPay both...

SnapPay, Inc., a leading provider of secure, cross-border payment solutions, and Alipay, the world’s leading digital payment platform, operated by Ant Financial Services Group, today announced a colla…

SnapPay, the Canadian cross-border payments company, and Alipay, the Chinese digital payments platform operated by Ant Financial Services, announced a collaboration Wednesday (March 6) that will enable Canadian Chinese grocery chain FoodyMart to accept Alipay.

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes SnapPay teaming up with Alipay to bring the digital payment method to a supermarket company in Canada. The U.K.’s Soldo FinTech firm said it earned an eMoney license from the central bank of Ireland, Bucharest-based payments platform SymphoPay raised €650k in a funding round and Saudi travel app Almosafer is engaging with digital payments...

Chinese online payment platform alipay has partnered with tech firm snappay inc. To enable canadian retailers to accept chinese currency from chinese shoppers through a mobile wallet. Alipay north america president souheil badran says the company wants to offer canadian merchants the opportunity to access the chinese market. He says 700 canadian merchants already accept...