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The Influence of Mobile Apps WeChat Pay and Alipay Extends Far Beyond China's Borders
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Mercator Advisory Group releases new research on the expanding influence of the largest mobile payment apps in Asia and how they are setting a path for mobile payments in the U.S.
BOSTON, Sept. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Mega payment apps Alipay and WeChat pay have been gaining traction in the U.S. market through availability at thousands of merchants. COVID-19 plus trade tensions and politics have put an abrupt end to the stream of travelers from China to the U.S. who would use these acceptance locations with their homegrown mobile apps while on vacations, business trips and traveling to the states for academic reasons. This report, Asian Mobile Pays Continue High Growth, But U.S. Market Expansion Stalls, looks at the expanding influence of the largest mobile payment apps in Asia and how they are setting a path for mobile payments in the U.S.
"The Asia Mobile Pays had gained a foothold in the U.S. in-store payments market, until their key target market--Chinese visitors to the U.S.--collapsed. Now that U.S. merchants have seen the cost benefits and purchase transaction simplicity of Alipay and WeChat Pay, they will be looking for the payments industry to bring similar ways to pay to their stores", comments Ray Pucci, Director, Merchant Services Advisory Service at Mercator Advisory Group and co-author of the report.
These mobile payment services are available only to Chinese nationals and are not a direct challenge to U.S. card networks and issuers, but the similar use of QR code based mobile payments, integrated within a retail app, is beginning to emerge through pilot programs, giving a glimpse of what may come.
"With very low processing costs, quick receipt of deposits and no chargebacks, this payment solution has a lot of appeal to merchants, particularly smaller merchants. Card is still king in many economies and toppling rewards and consumer protections will be a tall order, but apps influenced by the successful Chinese brands will pull some transactions away from traditional payment types," comments Sarah Grotta, Director, Debit and Alternative Products Advisory Service at Mercator Advisory Group and co-author of the report.
Highlights of the report include:
-- A review of Alipay and WeChat Pays recent growth and forecast
-- How the parent companies of these apps are influencing a number of
payment and payment related innovations through investments in fintechs
and partnerships
-- The education that US merchants have received by accepting Chinese
mobile app payments, revealing that there are simpler and cheaper ways
for them to accept shopper payments
-- Examples of how the Asia mobile apps are impacting current new payment
pilot programs underway
This report is 14 pages long and has 4 exhibits.
Companies and other organizations mentioned in this report include:
Alibaba, Ant Group, Apple, China Union Pay, CVS, Facebook, Incomm, Kroger, Mastercard, PayPal, Rite Aid, Target, Tencent, Venmo, Visa, Walmart
Members of Mercator Advisory Group's Debit and Alternative Products Advisory Service, Merchant Services Advisory Service, Prepaid Advisory Service, and Global Payments Advisory Service have access to this report as well as the upcoming research for the year ahead, presentations, analyst access, and other membership benefits.
For more information and media inquiries, please call Mercator Advisory Group's main line: 1-781-419-1700, send e-mail to info@mercatoradvisorygroup.com.
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About Mercator Advisory Group
Mercator Advisory Group is the leading independent research and advisory services firm exclusively focused on the payments and banking industries. We deliver pragmatic and timely research and advice designed to help our clients uncover the most lucrative opportunities to maximize revenue growth and contain costs. Our clients range from the world's largest payment issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants and associations to leading technology providers and investors. Mercator Advisory Group is also the publisher of the online payments and banking news and information portal PaymentsJournal.com.
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