Tencent has teamed up with UnionPay with a move that could give state-owned banks a bigger slice of China’s booming digital payments market. UnionPay, which is a network created by China’s biggest state-owned banks and operates the country’s most widely used credit card, has struck an agreement with Tencent to standardize the QR codes that consumers scan to make payments with their smartphones,...
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