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From Cross-Border Remittance to Financial Asset Management: BiyaPay Explores a New Path for Global Asset Allocation

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SINGAPORE, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, BiyaPay officially launched multilingual services to provide global users with a more localized product experience. For a platform focused on cross-border fund flows and multi-asset allocation, multilingual capabilities are not only an improvement to the user interface, but also a way to further lower the barriers for users in different regions to understand and use financial services.

From cross-border remittance and currency exchange to U.S. and Hong Kong stock investing, cryptocurrency trading, wealth management, and global payments, BiyaPay’s product scenarios are covering the real needs of an increasingly global user base. As its users become more international, the platform needs to address not only whether it can provide products, but also whether users can understand product rules, complete operational processes, and manage cross-border funds more efficiently in a language they are familiar with.

Against this backdrop, the launch of BiyaPay’s multilingual services has become an important product update in its globalization strategy, also signaling BiyaPay’s transition from cross-border payments toward a global one-stop asset allocation platform. Remittance and payment services are only the starting point of BiyaPay’s service to users, not the destination. What users truly need is not just to complete a remittance, but to manage cross-border funds more efficiently and further connect with global financial investment opportunities.

From Zero to One: Cross-Border Remittance as BiyaPay’s Starting Point

When BiyaPay first entered the market, it chose cross-border remittance and payments, a seemingly traditional financial scenario that has long been marked by persistent pain points. For international students, overseas workers, and freelancers in particular, cross-border remittance is often a high-frequency need, yet traditional channels are not always efficient enough.

In BiyaPay’s view, cross-border remittance is far from a fully solved market. In the early stages, users conducting cross-border fund transfers still faced high fees, uncertain arrival times, complicated processes, cumbersome document reviews, and a lack of exchange rate transparency. BiyaPay did not set out to build a complex platform at the beginning. Instead, it focused on helping users complete cross-border remittances more conveniently and at a lower cost.

In its early days, the BiyaPay team focused on three priorities: reducing remittance costs, improving fund arrival efficiency, and simplifying online operations. Compared with the fixed fees and longer settlement cycles commonly seen in traditional bank wire transfers, BiyaPay aimed to provide users with a more flexible fund transfer experience through digital accounts and online processes.

Building from zero was not easy. The greatest early challenge for the BiyaPay team was not the technology itself, but how to establish user trust. Cross-border remittance is a fund-related business. What users care about most is not how many features a platform has, but whether their money can arrive safely and on time. For this reason, BiyaPay invested heavily in obtaining financial licenses, improving product experience, enhancing fund arrival feedback, and strengthening risk control.

From its first group of users, BiyaPay grew primarily through real usage scenarios. International students used it to manage living expenses and rent; overseas workers used it to send money to their families; cross-border users used it to complete multi-currency fund transfers. As these use cases continued to accumulate, BiyaPay’s cross-border remittance business gradually evolved from a single product into a global one-stop asset allocation platform.

From zero to one, the first thing BiyaPay achieved was turning cross-border remittance, once a single-purpose product, into a foundational service that users can rely on continuously. For BiyaPay, this was both the starting point of its journey and an important foundation for serving millions of global users in the future.

Starting from Cross-Border Payments, BiyaPay Moves Toward Multi-Asset Financial Services

Global financial services are entering a stage of multi-asset convergence. U.S. and Hong Kong stocks remain key markets for global investors, while stablecoins such as USDT are becoming important tools for cross-border fund transfers and digital asset management. At the same time, foreign exchange, commodities, wealth management, and U Card payments are playing an increasingly important role in global users’ asset allocation.

Cross-border remittance helped BiyaPay validate users’ real demand for global fund mobility, while the expansion of its product matrix came from users’ next set of needs after completing a remittance.

While serving early remittance users, BiyaPay found that once funds completed cross-border transfers, they often did not remain idle in a single account. Some users converted USDT into U.S. dollars or Hong Kong dollars for U.S. and Hong Kong stock investments; some continued to allocate funds to cryptocurrencies, wealth management products, or foreign exchange assets; others used U Card products to pay for AI tool subscriptions and overseas e-commerce purchases.

“Payments are the starting point, but users also need a full suite of financial asset services after their funds begin to move,” BiyaPay’s CEO said. “When we saw users repeatedly switching between platforms for remittance, currency exchange, investing, and payments, we realized that BiyaPay needed to do more than provide remittance and payment functions.”

Following this fund flow path, BiyaPay began expanding from cross-border remittance and payments into more asset service scenarios. Today, the platform has gradually covered U.S. stocks, Hong Kong stocks, cryptocurrencies, wealth management, commodities, and U Card services, aiming to provide users with a financial experience that spans fund transfers, asset trading, flexible wealth management, and global payments.

In the U.S. and Hong Kong stock investment scenario, users can access zero-commission U.S. stock trading, as BiyaPay seeks to lower the barrier to global financial markets. In the cryptocurrency scenario, users can trade spot and futures with zero transaction fees. In wealth management, BiyaPay provides users with more flexible options for managing idle assets, with yields that are higher than many comparable platforms in the market.

BiyaPay’s product expansion is not simply about adding more features. It is an extension based on users’ asset flow paths. Users should not have to switch back and forth between multiple platforms just to complete one asset allocation process. BiyaPay aims to become an entry point for users to connect different assets and different scenarios, reducing the operational costs caused by cross-platform switching.

Starting from cross-border payments, BiyaPay has evolved into a multi-asset financial services platform covering U.S. and Hong Kong stocks, cryptocurrencies, wealth management, commodities, and U Card scenarios.

BiyaPay’s Next Destination: A Global One-Stop Asset Allocation Platform

Future financial services will not be limited to a single market, a single currency, or a single asset class. BiyaPay’s CEO once said, “What users need is one account that connects global stocks, digital assets, and foreign exchange markets, allowing funds to move more freely across different assets, currencies, and scenarios.”

Traditional financial markets such as U.S. stocks, Hong Kong stocks, foreign exchange, and commodities are becoming increasingly connected with digital financial tools such as stablecoins, crypto assets, and on-chain payments. For users, asset allocation is no longer a single action such as “buying stocks” or “buying crypto,” but a complete chain involving remittance, currency exchange, trading, wealth management, payments, and risk management.

As traditional finance and digital finance continue to converge, BiyaPay is seeking to improve the connectivity between global stocks, digital assets, foreign exchange, wealth management, and payment scenarios by combining Web2 and Web3 capabilities. On the Web2 side, BiyaPay connects mature financial and consumer scenarios such as U.S. and Hong Kong stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, and U Card payments. On the Web3 side, the platform provides users with more flexible fund pathways through stablecoins such as USDT, digital asset trading, and on-chain fund transfer capabilities.

BiyaPay hopes to break down the barriers between assets and allow value to flow more freely. Whether users hold fiat currencies, stocks, or digital assets, the platform should help them connect and allocate assets more efficiently.

Based on this vision, BiyaPay is seeking to redefine the relationship between users and global assets. In the past, users who wanted to allocate across different assets often had to switch between banks, brokerages, exchanges, wallets, and payment tools. In the future, BiyaPay aims to connect cross-border payments, stock trading, digital assets, foreign exchange, wealth management, and global consumption through one account, enabling users to complete asset movement and management at a lower cost.

Starting from cross-border remittance and payments, and expanding into U.S. and Hong Kong stocks, digital assets, wealth management, foreign exchange, commodities, and global payments, BiyaPay is moving from a single payment tool toward a one-stop financial services platform covering cross-border fund flows and multi-asset management. BiyaPay’s mission is to make global asset allocation simpler and fund flows more efficient. BiyaPay’s next destination is to build a global one-stop asset allocation platform for users.

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Foreign Streamers’ Insight into China: an Egyptian uncovers Tianjin’s “humor gene”

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BEIJING, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — This is a news report by China Daily:

Tianjin is an open, inclusive city with a remarkable sense of humor woven into its DNA. Curious about this “city of comedy”, Egyptian international student Wang Shaoxuan sets out to explore Tianjin’s famed xiangsheng (crosstalk) teahouses, lively old streets and alleys, and breakfast stalls filled with the aroma of local delicacies. Amid punchlines and laughter, and through the city’s flavors and vibrant everyday life, he experiences Tianjin through a foreigner’s eyes — measuring its unique character and discovering its open-minded, optimistic, and easygoing spirit.

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Broker Mitrade Brought World Cup Story Closer to MENA, Renews AFA Partnership Into 2027

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DUBAI, UAE, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CFD trading platform Mitrade has renewed its partnership with the Argentine Football Association (AFA), home to the three-time FIFA World Cup 26™ champions. As the 2026 tournament captured attention across the Middle East, the renewal reflects Mitrade’s connection with its user community.

The tournament has driven demand for home entertainment as fans follow the matches, according to Economy Middle East. The region is one of the world’s youngest and most digitally connected, making it a natural market for Mitrade.

The Middle East’s growing enthusiasm for football is unfolding alongside rising participation in financial markets. In June, the combined market capitalisation of companies listed on the Dubai Financial Market surpassed Dh1 trillion for the first time, while its benchmark index climbed above 6,000 points, according to Gulf News. Average daily turnover also rose 56% year on year earlier this year, highlighting stronger trader activity. Against this backdrop, Mitrade’s renewed partnership underscores its focus on staying connected with the communities it serves.

“We build Mitrade around the people who use it, so we stay close to what matters to them,” said Kevin Lai, VP, Mitrade Group. “Renewing our partnership with the AFA reflects our commitment to engaging with the communities we serve while strengthening our long-term presence in the Middle East.”

Football demands preparation, discipline, risk management and knowing when to act. Trading calls for the same qualities, making the AFA partnership a reflection of Mitrade’s long-term commitment to the Middle East.

About Mitrade Group

Mitrade is a globally recognised, award-winning CFD trading platform licensed under UAE’s CMA (20200000397), South Africa’s FSCA (FSP 54842), Cayman Islands’ CIMA (SIB1612446), Mauritius’s FSC (GB20025791), Australia’s ASIC (AFSL398528), and Cyprus’s CySEC (CIF438/23).

Connecting 7M+ traders to 1,000+ OTC derivatives, including indices, forex, commodities, ETFs, and shares, Mitrade’s platform is designed to provide fast trade execution, competitive spreads, and a user-friendly interface accessible across multiple devices.

OTC derivatives are a leveraged product and can result in the loss of your entire capital. Trading OTC derivatives may not be suitable for everyone. Please consider the product sheet, risk disclosure statement and client agreement before using the services and ensure that you understand the risks involved.

This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice, an offer, or a solicitation.

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Demand for EVs continues its growth across Europe with Chinese brands increasing market share, new OLX data shows

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AMSTERDAM, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Every electric vehicle market tracked by OLX Group (“OLX”) is still growing at double or triple-digit rates, and Chinese automotive brands are capturing a growing share of that demand, according to new data published today.

OLX, a global online classifieds leader with nearly 60 million daily listings across seven markets, has today published The Great Acceleration: East Meets Electric, which examines consumer demand for electric vehicles across five OLX automotive marketplaces: La Centrale (France), Autovit (Romania), Standvirtual (Portugal), Otomoto (Poland), and AutoTrader (South Africa).

The data shows EV adoption maturing into a structural trend rather than a short-term reaction: every market measured has now sustained double or triple-digit year-on-year EV lead growth, even as these growth rates ease from previously seen highs. Chinese automotive brands remain central to that story, with MG and BYD now among the leading Chinese brands in four of the five markets, as manufacturers continue to expand the availability of EVs at accessible price points.

Key findings

Every tracked market posted double- or triple-digit year-on-year EV lead growth in June 2026: France up 206%, South Africa up 154.6%, Romania up 66.0%, Portugal up 60.0%, and Poland up 34.3%.Portugal remains Europe’s most EV-mature market, with EVs accounting for 14.9% of leads, almost double the next closest market.France remains the fastest-growing EV market in the group and the one where EV prices are still climbing (+25% year-on-year).MG and BYD are now the most consistently dominant Chinese brands across the group, appearing among the leading brands in France, Romania, Portugal and Poland.

Christian Gisy, CEO of OLX, said: “The story our data tells is straightforward: where EV adoption is accelerating, demand for Chinese automotive brands is accelerating with it. That is no coincidence – Chinese manufacturers are actively expanding the market, bringing electric vehicles to consumers at lower price points than ever before. This means EVs are now more accessible for more people. The transition to electric mobility is happening faster, and more broadly, because Chinese manufacturers are in it.”

EV demand remains strong

Consumer interest in EVs remains high across all five markets, with every market recording double or triple-digit year-on-year growth in EV leads. France leads at 206%, followed by South Africa at 154.6%, Romania at 66%, Portugal at 60%, and Poland at 34.3%.

Portugal remains the most mature EV market, with electric vehicles accounting for close to one in seven leads on the platform (14.9%).

The report finds that demand, which surged in the months following the outbreak of the conflict in Iran in February 2026 as fuel costs and energy security became more prominent considerations for consumers, has since settled into a steadier, sustained pattern consistent with structural adoption rather than a short-term reaction.

Chinese automotive brands are helping unlock EV growth

As EV demand matures, Chinese automotive brands are moving from early experimentation to a phase where a smaller number of manufacturers are converting early interest into durable market share. MG and BYD now feature among the leading Chinese brands in four of the five markets tracked.

France recorded the strongest increase in consumer demand for Chinese automotive brands, rising 276% year-on-year – more than double the next-fastest market, Romania (119%). Portugal (74%) and Poland (95%) also recorded strong increases as Chinese manufacturers continued to expand their presence.

Chinese manufacturers continue to adapt to local market conditions. In Romania, where EV prices declined nearly 8% year-on-year, the increased availability of Chinese-made vehicles continues to expand access to more affordable electric vehicles. This differs from France, where consumer interest in Chinese automotive brands keeps growing despite a 25% increase in EV prices, reflecting sustained demand in a supply-constrained market.

Chinese manufacturers adapt to local market dynamics 

While EV demand is strong across all five OLX markets, the report shows Chinese manufacturers continuing to adapt their vehicle offering, pricing and market positioning to reflect each market’s stage of EV adoption.

Portugal, Europe’s most mature EV market, continues to show Chinese brands competing on technology and model choice as much as price, with Xpeng now among the leading brands alongside MG and BYD. Poland remains the group’s most diversified Chinese brand market by brand count, with MG, BYD and Omoda leading. 

South Africa represents a different stage of market development. Chinese brands account for the highest share of demand in the group (7.31%), led by Haval, but that demand is concentrated on petrol and hybrid SUVs rather than EVs – just 0.3% of Chinese brand demand there is electric. This reflects the influence of local infrastructure, driving conditions and consumer preferences, with Chinese manufacturers adapting their approach to each market rather than pursuing a single strategy across all five. 

Methodology

All figures are drawn from leads-based consumer activity across OLX Group’s five automotive marketplace platforms. La Centrale (France), Autovit (Romania), Standvirtual (Portugal), Otomoto (Poland) and AutoTrader (South Africa). “Leads” refers to meaningful user engagement: views, enquiries, and contact events. Data is as at 30 June 2026. Full methodology is available in the report.

About OLX Group

OLX is a global digital marketplace leader that builds AI-native marketplaces people trust, serving millions of people, professionals and businesses across Europe and South Africa every month. Leveraging scale and powerful AI innovation across its trusted brands, OLX helps people sell and buy cars, find housing, get jobs, buy and sell household goods, and much more. OLX Group is the classifieds business of Prosus, a global technology company and the power behind the leading lifestyle ecommerce brands in Latin America, Europe and India. For more information on OLX, visit www.olxgroup.com

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