Business Chief USA February 2019
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mobile phones first came out, you<br />
could only ring other people on the<br />
same network – this only lasted about<br />
six months. In the early days, everyone<br />
comes out with their version but at the<br />
end of the day, the agnostic approach<br />
is going to be a winner.”<br />
In China, fast becoming the home of<br />
cashless payments, Nuggets has<br />
entered into a partnership with mobile<br />
payment technology, service and<br />
solution provider QFPay, which is used<br />
by epayment giants Alipay and WeChat<br />
Pay, serving over one million merchants<br />
across Asia. This partnership will mean<br />
Alipay and WeChat Pay users can use<br />
a digital ID to make payments as<br />
opposed to attaching these to a bank<br />
card. “You can’t compete against<br />
WeChat Pay and AliPay but you can<br />
add value to them,” says Johnson.<br />
“Currently you’re going back to plastic<br />
to enable them – you’re basically<br />
rerouting to the old system. The potential<br />
is that you have your login and maybe<br />
your profile data within your own realm<br />
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