Logo 07 Jul 2017

China’s payments system is getting revamped

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Most people don’t think about it when they whip out a smart phone to pay for something via Wechat. But that simple action relies on a complex set of transactions between the app, the merchant and multiple banks.

In China, the infrastructure supporting those transactions is completely disjoi...