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Product & Partnership Launches

  • XTransfer has partnered with Ecobank Group to facilitate China - Africa trade payments. 

  • Binance Pay has partnered with xMoney to optimize European payments. 

  • Wise has enhanced its cross-border payment services in the HK-China Mainland corridor, including increasing the transfer limits and extending recipients to both mainland and non-mainland Chinese UnionPay users.

  • Alipay Tap! has expanded to Macau. 

  • Hong Kong’s OSL Group has rebrandedCoinBest to OSL Japan following its acquisition. 

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Financing, Investment & Acquisition

  • Singapore’s DBS raised its ownership in Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank to over 19%.

Other News & Read

  • While Chinese tech giants, including Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance, are racing to adoptDeepSeek, the US is planning to legislate a ban on DeepSeek for government devices. 

  • Chinese regulators are looking to launch a formal investigation into Apple’s App Store fee policies, including Apple taking cuts of in-app purchases and blocking third-party payment methods. 

  • China fights back against Trump’s tariffs by taking actions against American companies, including Google and Calvin Klein. 

  • Trump's de minimis cancellation is bad news for Temu, but worse for Shein.

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