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HIVEX® Launches Cross-Border Mobile Payment Service in South Korea, Injecting New Momentum into Travel

  • Seoul amd Taipei
Seoul and Taipei

For 2025, South Korea is HIVEX’s First Market Launch; More to Come

TBCASoft announced at its annual press conference on October 15, 2024, that it will collaborate with ZeroPay, the national QR Code payment standard launched by the South Korean government, and ICB, a cross-border fintech company, to jointly launch a cross-border mobile payment service in South Korea. After three months of preparation, the HIVEX® cross-border payment platform went live on January 6, 2025, and will be available at over 1.9 million stores across South Korea. ZeroPay will, for the first time, connect its vast network of MPM and CPM affiliated merchants in South Korea to the HIVEX cross-border payment platform, greatly enhancing the payment convenience for HIVEX travelers in South Korea. Taiwan’s PXPay Plus users will be the first to enjoy a more convenient and secure payment experience while traveling in South Korea.

TBCASoft Adds iPASS to its HIVEX® Cross-Border Mobile Payment Network

  • Tokyo and Silicon Valley
Tokyo and Silicon Valley

HIVEX Promotes an Eco-Smart Travel Experience

Being eco-smart has become a preferred way of modern travel. In response, iPASS, one of the most popular e-wallets in Taiwan has joined TBCASoft’s HIVEX® cross-border mobile payment network. This cooperation allows iPASS MONEY’s 6.5 million users to not only enjoy a simple and convenient payment experience, but also be more environmentally friendly during travel.

HIVEX® Payment Network Expands with Dynamic-QR Supported Merchants in Japan

  • Tokyo and Silicon Valley
Tokyo and Silicon Valley

HIVEX Merchant Acceptance Reaches Ubiquity Across Japan

TBCASoft announces the immediate launch of its new Dynamic-QR service for the HIVEX® Network. Consumers that are part of the HIVEX Network can now pay for transactions at hundreds of thousands of new merchants such as vending machines and transportation services (e.g., taxis, ride-share, etc.). This is in addition to the millions of existing merchants that already accept HIVEX throughout Japan.
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MWC Las Vegas 2022

GSMA MWC Las Vegas Conference 2022

On September 28, at the GSMA MWC Las Vegas Conference, Ling Wu, Co-Chairman of the CBSG Consortium and CEO & Founder of TBCASoft spoke about the “Transformation of Payments.”  Consumers want fast, secure, and accessible mobile payment services to work anywhere they go. TBCASoft’s HIVEX® Network solves the complexity for mobile payment service providers allowing merchants and overseas travelers to do business.

Telcos & Mobile Finance, An Opportunity Too Big to Miss

GSMA Mobile 360 Thrive Latin America 2020

On December 1, Ling Wu, Co-Chairman of the CBSG Consortium and CEO & Founder of TBCASoft spoke as part of the GSMA Thrive Latin America conference. Mobile operators know they need to take part in mobile finance but can be deterred by high entry barriers. HIVEX can solve this and is now Service Ready for any mobile service provider, including OTT mobile payment service providers (MPSP) to successfully transform into a trusted mobile finance solutions provider.

Interview with Forkast News: How Telco Companies Could Become Banks

GSMA MWC Shanghai 2019

Initial solutions will be for transactions such as mobile wallet, remittance and top up. ‘So you have Hong Kong Telecom mobile service and I have T-Mobile. My account so far, is just used to pay phone bills. Imagine, without using an OTT service, I text you $5, so T-Mobile bills me $5 and you immediately receive a $5 credit.’ Carriers could potentially be like a bank.

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TBCASoft’s Blockchain Technology has Massive Potential to Create New Revenue for Mobile Payment Service Providers

Of all industries, the telecom industry is poised to seize the greatest share of the potential value of blockchain. In section one of this paper, Accenture Strategy will introduce a new proposition for the telecom industry: blockchain as the basis for telcos to become value aggregators and massively expand earnings and influence by collaborating to support an international network of value transfer. In section two, TBCASoft will build on this new idea of a telco blockchain consortium by introducing the “perfect fit” to the opportunity proposed by Accenture Strategy. Supported by Accenture Strategy’s industry and technology analysis, TBCASoft presents a compelling argument for telcos to join their Carrier Blockchain Study Group (CBSG).

TBCASoft Shares Expertise for Webinar: Reshaping the Telecommunications Ecosystem and Business Models

On May 4, 2020 IBM and TBCASoft published a joint white paper. COVID-19 is accelerating consumer preference for contactless payments and Mobile Service Providers are ideally positioned. Service Providers should launch contactless payment services enabled by TBCASoft’s Cross-Carrier Payment System and join the CBSG Consortium that greatly expands the user and merchant base for their payment service — it accelerates the network effect to a global scale.
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