{"id":182003,"date":"2017-06-27T12:27:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T10:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=182003"},"modified":"2017-06-27T12:45:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T10:45:27","slug":"sa-fintech-company-targets-chinese-tourist-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/182003\/sa-fintech-company-targets-chinese-tourist-market\/","title":{"rendered":"SA fintech company targets Chinese tourist market"},"content":{"rendered":"

ACI Worldwide, a provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, and Alipay will launch Alipay in South Africa, via a local fintech company, Peach Payments.<\/p>\n

Alipay, operated by Ant Financial Services Group, is the world\u2019s largest online and mobile payment platform with more than 450 million active Chinese users.<\/p>\n

The company enables merchants to effectively gain share in the world’s largest e-commerce market through a payment method and lifestyle platform for Chinese travellers.<\/p>\n

China is the world\u2019s largest outbound tourism market, with 135 million travelling abroad in 2016, representing a 6% growth on the previous year.<\/p>\n

Peach Payments noted that there are more than 10,000 Chinese tourists arriving in South Africa each month and the Chinese are among the highest per capita spenders when travelling abroad.<\/p>\n

City Sightseeing, which operates open-top \u2018hop on hop off\u2019 bus tours in Cape Town and Johannesburg, will be the first local merchant in Africa to offer Alipay as part of its mobile and e-commerce strategy.<\/p>\n

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Read: Stellenbosch-based fintech company gets multi-million dollar cash boost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ACI Worldwide, a provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, and Alipay will launch Alipay in South Africa, via a local fintech company, Peach Payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":126545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961,31],"tags":[25,12007],"class_list":["post-182003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-peach-payments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182025,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182003\/revisions\/182025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}