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China Third Party Payment Profile: Smartpay - Top Me Up, Scotty!


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Smartpay is one of the larger mobile payment companies in China offering SMS-based payment services. Currently, Smartpay's main service is mobile top-up - that is, paying one's phone bill through the phone itself. Once they have built a loyal user base that has grown comfortable with making payments through the mobile phone, Smartpay will then focus on offering a more comprehensive mobile payment solution to its users.

Key Findings:

- Smartpay currently focuses on mobile top-up services simultaneously targeted at young, urban users and rural, un-banked users.

- Smartpay is China Unicom's dominant mobile top-up partner.

- The company has strong financial backing from foreign and domestic investment firms.

- Smartpay-licensed dealers offer top-up services to an additional 500,000 unregistered users.

Key Topics Covered Include:

- Industry Overview: Key Factors Shaping Third-Party Payments in China

- Continued preference for cash payments, but bank card payments rising

- Credit card use remains low; debit cards debit card, card that allows the cost of goods or services that are purchased to be deducted directly from the purchaser's checking account. They can also be used at automated teller machines for withdrawing cash from the user's checking account.  widespread

- Limited coverage of non-cash payment services

- China UnionPay's bank card monopoly

- Quasi-online payment systems an interim solution

- Two ISPs, 162 million Internet users Internet user ninternauta m/f

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- Two mobile operators, 500 million subscribers

- Contactless smartcard use increasing but largely limited to buses and subways

- Government regulations and the "national interest"

- Smartpay - Top me up, Scotty!

- Ownership, management team, investors

- Ownership

- Management Team

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- Business Performance, Revenue Model, Users

- Services and coverage

- Markets and channels

- Marketing and branding

- Partners (banks, merchants, technology)

- Users figures and profile

- Competitive analysis: strengths and weaknesses

- Outlook

Companies Mentioned Include:

- China UnionPay China UnionPay (Simplified Chinese: 中国银联), also known as UnionPay (Chinese: 银联) or by its abbreviation, CUP  

- Union Mobile Pay

- Alipay

- Shanghai Shanghai (shăng`hī`, shäng`hī`), city (1994 est. pop. 12,980,000), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows into the Chang (Yangtze) estuary.  Smartpay

- Yeepay

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- Chinapay

- 99Bill

- Tenpay

- PayEase

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c67089.
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