Mastercard

11 Mar 2013

In a rare interview with overseas media, Xu Luode, the president and chief executive of the mainland's bank card association, told the South China Morning Post that UnionPay would strive to...

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China's UnionPay grows to challenge Visa

12 Dec 2012

Among the designer brands from Prada to Chanel at the Harrods flagship store in London, Chinese housewife Li Yafang spotted a logo she knows from back home: the red, blue and green of UnionPay...

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Investors on the money

7 Aug 2012

People in Hong Kong are considered savvy investors with considerable investment knowledge. Just look at the number of investors hanging around brokerages checking stock prices on an hourly basis...

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'Wins' but no gain in UnionPay card game

23 Jul 2012

The World Trade Organisation's (WTO) ruling on the mainland's electronic-payment market is curiously being portrayed as a 'win' by both the warring parties: China and the United States.

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Tri-Nations' financial success sums up health of the game

19 Sep 2010

Organisers of Rugby World Cup 2011 can take great heart from an economic impact assessment of this year's Tri-Nations which showed the game is booming - both on and off the pitch.

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Professional strives for a well-rounded global vision

19 Jan 2009

As vice-president of MasterCard's global account development division in Asia-Pacific, Angela Bai probably has a clearer global understanding than most because of her work in identifying...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

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Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

4:40AM

New strategies on the cards

Marketing initiatives to boost range of transactions

Sound long-term marketing strategies should see a company through the ups and downs of the economic cycle, but it is a major...

8:41PM

Thursday Thinktank

Five things we're all wondering about

1 Concern over spate of ambulance breakdowns ... your chance of arriving at a hospital alive by ambulance is now about the same as taking a...

4:53PM

Two tourists jailed over bank card scam

Two Britons who withdrew more than HK$380,000 from Standard Chartered Bank ATMs using stolen bank account data were each jailed for 40 months yesterday.

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More transactions on the cards

Electronic card providers are increasingly seeking innovative ways to expand their product offerings.

4:02PM

Hollywood East

For a few hundred folks in town who are perceived to have, aspire to, or who have inherited, a certain high social status, autumn is a busy time of the year.

5:53AM

Mainland sales of luxury goods to reach US$44b within decade

Spending on luxury goods and services on the mainland will jump 134 per cent to US$44.4 billion in 2016, according to a MasterCard study.

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