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Apple and UnionPay have agreed a partnership to bring Apple Pay, which allows payments from Apple products using near-field communication technology, to the Chinese market in early 2016 after "tests and certification" by Chinese regulators. The China UnionPay bank card network operates China's national inter-bank clearing and …

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  1. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

    Old news!

    This was announced last week ironically on about the same day that a Brit firm announced that it had a deal with Union Pay for a QR based solution

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35112364

    Union Pay already uses a QR solution. I think getting ApplePay into many retailers will be an uphill struggle which is a shame because AFAIK, it is a far better solution than QR can ever be.

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      Re: Old news!

      The western luxury retailers will be equipped with terminals that support Apple Pay, and that's what really matters for Apple because the people who shop there are the ones that own iPhones.

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