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Faster Payment System (FPS; Chinese: 快速支付系統, more commonly known as 轉數快) is a real-time gross settlement [1] payment system in Hong Kong that connects traditional banks and electronic payment and digital wallet operators. [2]
Electronic Payment Services (simplified Chinese: 易办事; traditional Chinese: 易辦事; pinyin: Yì bànshì), commonly known as EPS, is an electronic payment system based in Hong Kong, Macau, and with limited acceptance in Shenzhen since it began operations in 1985.
The cards are used by 98 percent of the population of Hong Kong aged 15 to 64 [1] and the system handles more than 15 million transactions, worth over HK$220 million, every day. [ 1 ] The Octopus card system was the world's second contactless smart card system, after the Korean Upass .
PayMe was introduced as a standalone mobile app, offering P2P social payment. [14] Users register via a Facebook account or Hong Kong mobile phone number and authorise access to a credit card or local bank account (not necessarily an HSBC account), from which the balance can be topped up, and a bank account to receive money.
In 2015, the UnionPay overtook Visa and Mastercard in total value of payments made by customers and became the largest card payment processing organization (debit and credit cards combined) in the world surpassing the two. However, only 0.5% of this payment volume was outside of China. [3] UnionPay offers mobile and online payments services. [4 ...
Beginning in the 2000s many countries introduced e-visas and electronic travel authorisations (ETAs) as an alternative to traditional visas.An ETA is a kind of pre-arrival registration, which may or may not be officially classified as a visa depending on the issuing jurisdiction, required for foreign travellers who are exempted from obtaining a full visa.
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[3] [5] It consists of a group of experts with the background in the payment industry with headquarters in Hong Kong. In 2015, it was certified as a service provider for Visa and MasterCard. In 2016, it received Hong Kong License for Operating Money Service. [3] In 2017, it became a certified acquirer for AMEX. [citation needed]