{"id":14865,"date":"2021-05-20T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/20\/airwallex-rolls-out-online-card-payments-solution-in-hong-kong\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T02:00:00","slug":"airwallex-rolls-out-online-card-payments-solution-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/05\/20\/airwallex-rolls-out-online-card-payments-solution-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Airwallex Rolls Out Online Card Payments Solution in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Newly launched solution allows&#13;<br \/>\nmerchants in Hong Kong to accept online card payments through Visa and&#13;<br \/>\nMastercard.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Hong Kong merchants can now&#13;<br \/>\nbenefit from a seamless end-to-end management of their operations, and have&#13;<br \/>\naccess to global online payments acceptance, collections, FX and payouts in a&#13;<br \/>\nsingle platform.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>The introduction of the online&#13;<br \/>\ncard payments solution in Hong Kong is a testament to Airwallex&#8217;s acceleration&#13;<br \/>\nof new product innovations and solutions in the past 12 months across Asia,&#13;<br \/>\nAustralia, UK and the EMEA markets.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 20\u00a0May&#13;<br \/>\n2021 &#8211; Airwallex, a global fintech platform, is excited to announce the launch&#13;<br \/>\nof its online card payment acceptance solution in Hong Kong, allowing local&#13;<br \/>\nmerchants to accept online card payments made around the world using Visa and&#13;<br \/>\nMastercard.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Being an international gateway between China&#13;<br \/>\nand the rest of the world, and one of Asia&#8217;s international hubs for finance and&#13;<br \/>\ntrade, Hong Kong has seen transformational growth in its payment environment in&#13;<br \/>\nrecent years, driven by a rapid growth in the e-commerce sector. E-commerce&#13;<br \/>\nsales in Hong Kong are forecasted to register a growth of 11.1% this year, and&#13;<br \/>\nis expected to continue with this uptrend beyond the pandemic, driven by&#13;<br \/>\nincreasing demand for payment options that can provide improved security,&#13;<br \/>\ngreater efficiency and more customised solutions. The Greater Bay Area&#13;<br \/>\nDevelopment is also expected to present vast opportunities for growth in&#13;<br \/>\ncross-border payments over the coming years.\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>As a principal member of Visa and Mastercard,&#13;<br \/>\nAirwallex&#8217;s online card payments solution enables Hong Kong merchants to receive online payments from users of Visa and&#13;<br \/>\nMastercard everywhere, and allows for them to optimise working capital flow. On&#13;<br \/>\ntop of accepting more than 120+ currencies available on Visa and Mastercard&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nnetwork, Airwallex enables merchants to directly receive funds in multiple currencies&#13;<br \/>\nin their Airwallex accounts without additional costs. Further exchange to other&#13;<br \/>\ncurrencies are then possible at the mid-market rate with a small margin, as&#13;<br \/>\nwell as\u00a0 repatriating funds back to home&#13;<br \/>\nmarkets at a very low fee. The entire end-to-end process for the merchants is&#13;<br \/>\nmade simpler, more cost-effective and quicker, while also ensuring the margins&#13;<br \/>\nand fees are fully transparent. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The introduction of Airwallex&#8217;s online card&#13;<br \/>\npayments solution in Hong Kong follows the debut of the same service in the UK&#13;<br \/>\nand Europe in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airwallex.com\/blog\/card-payment-acceptance-in-the-uk-and-europe\">September 2020<\/a>, and is a further step towards&#13;<br \/>\nbuilding its own global, cloud-based online payments platform. This a key part&#13;<br \/>\nof Airwallex&#8217;s vision to be the global financial cloud that empowers businesses&#13;<br \/>\nto operate anywhere and anytime, supporting customer needs for online payments,&#13;<br \/>\ncollection through virtual bank accounts, FX and other value-added solutions&#13;<br \/>\nfor SMEs, including cards and expense management, as well as an API for larger&#13;<br \/>\nbusinesses requiring customisation. In Hong Kong, merchants can now benefit&#13;<br \/>\nfrom a seamless end-to-end management of its operations. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Kai Wu, Greater China CEO of Airwallex said,&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;Hong Kong&#8217;s pace of digital adoption is taking shape in a new era of&#13;<br \/>\ninnovation, and in an environment where there is an increasing need for&#13;<br \/>\nefficiency and fast solutions to ensure business success. Our new online card payments solution means merchants in&#13;<br \/>\nHong Kong can now accept payments online via Visa and Mastercard, enjoy&#13;<br \/>\nfavorable currency exchange rates and make payouts seamlessly through a single&#13;<br \/>\nplatform. This makes Airwallex a truly viable solution for businesses and&#13;<br \/>\nespecially the many tech startups and e-commerce merchants that operate in Hong&#13;<br \/>\nKong, Asia and around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2015 in Melbourne, and&#13;<br \/>\nheadquartered in Hong Kong, Airwallex has grown to become a global fintech&#13;<br \/>\nplatform that is supported by a team of over 650 employees across 13 global&#13;<br \/>\noffices. Earlier in March, Airwallex also announced an extended Series D&#13;<br \/>\nfundraising round, raising its total amount of equity funds raised to over&#13;<br \/>\nUS$500 million, and nearly tripling its valuation to US$2.6 billion in just two&#13;<br \/>\nyears. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-05-20\/78554\/airwallex-rolls-out-online-card-payments-solution-in-hong-kong\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly launched solution allows&#13; merchants in Hong Kong to accept online card payments through Visa and&#13; Mastercard. Hong Kong merchants can now&#13; benefit from a seamless end-to-end management of their operations, and have&#13; access to global online payments acceptance, collections, FX and payouts in a&#13; single platform. 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