FSC approves two e-payment firmsBy Kao Shih-ching / Staff reporterPxmart (全聯) and FamilyMart Co Ltd (全家便利商店) yesterday gained Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) approval to provide electronic payment services through subsidiaries, the FSC said yesterday. Twenty-eight companies offer e-payment services in Taiwan, with 13 million users as of the end of April, FSC data showed. PxPay has 7 million members, while 13 million Taiwanese have a FamilyMart membership, it added. In related news, a MasterCard Taiwan (萬事達) survey found that more than 75 percent of respondents used mobile payment tools more often than they did before a surge of COVID-19 cases last month. Half of the respondents used the tools every day, up 30 percentage points from before the outbreak, the company said.

Source: Taipei Times June 24, 2021 15:56 UTC