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Alipay tears down last brick in wall with UnionPay

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On Friday, Alipay announced that their platform now fully supports UnionPay as a payment method for merchants and consumers.
Some background: UnionPay is an SOE that provides the vast majority of bank cards in China.

However, the advent of digital payment methods like Alipay has undermined use of...