Those are global numbers. There were 17.45 billion credit, debit, and prepaid cards in circulation worldwide as of the end of 2023. UnionPay cards made up 56% of total cards, Visa composed 25% ...

Eight wallets are now able to offer this feature, namely BoC Pay from Bank of China (Hong Kong ... once users link their physical UnionPay cards or activate digital UnionPay cards in the ...

Russians have reported issues using China's payment system UnionPay, which was widely touted in Russia as an alternative to Visa and Mastercard after the card payment companies pulled out over the war ...