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Fin­tech Played Crit­i­cal Role in Chi­na’s Con­tain­ment of COVID-19: Rich Tur­rin

June 30, 2020 by Rich Turrin

Shang­hai-based fin­tech vet­eran Rich Tur­rin says that the wide­spread adop­tion of dig­i­tal pay­ments in China has played an in­stru­men­tal role in the coun­try’s ef­forts to con­tain the spread of COVID-19 through­out the first quar­ter of 2020.

In an in­ter­view with China Bank­ing News Tur­rin said the surg­ing pop­u­lar­ity of Ali­Pay and WeChat Pay last decade has not only trans­formed daily eco­nomic ac­tiv­ity China – it has also re­sulted in the de­vel­op­ment of an ac­com­pa­ny­ing lo­gis­tics net­works that greatly abet­ted ef­forts to com­bat the novel coro­n­avirus.

“We make the fun­da­men­tal mis­take of think­ing that con­tact­less or mo­bile pay­ment is just a re­ally nice and con­ve­nient way to pay money from one point to the other,” said Tur­rin.
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Rich Turrin is the international best-selling author of “Cashless – China’s Digital Currency Revolution” and “Innovation Lab Excellence.” He is an Onalytica Top 100 Fintech Influencer and an award-winning executive previously heading fintech teams at IBM following a twenty-year career in investment banking. Rich is a leading media commentator and advisor on China’s digital currency and tech scene. Living in Shanghai for more than a decade, Rich experienced China going cashless first-hand.

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