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e-payments (pos junho26)

 jun26~ Macau boosts e-pay options to drive traveller spending By Aries Un Tourism authorities in Macau are doubling down on efforts to promote the city as an electronic-payment-friendly destination, a government release said on Monday. The Macau Government Tourism Office said that collaborations with mainstream e-platform operators from multiple vital markets began in the second quarter of 2026, with discounts and promotions rolled out in tandem to stimulate tourism spending in the special administrative region. The major contactless payment operators listed in the Monday announcement included Naver Pay in South Korea, TrueMoney in Thailand, and AlipayHK in Hong Kong. The authorities said that South Korea remained Macau’s top international market. According to the Statistics and Census Service, South Korean visitation for the first quarter of the year totalled 184,938, which accounts for about 1.65 per cent of the Q1 total of 11.21 million. This suggested a rise of 7.36 per cent f...
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Macau aproxima bancos centrais lusofonos das moedas digitais

 june 26 https://www.plataformamedia.com/2026/06/10/macau-aproxima-bancos-centrais-lusofonos-das-moedas-digitais-o-que-pode-resultar-da-cooperacao-transfronteirica/
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e-MOP moves to sandbox testing with whitelist users as 2027 launch target holds

 jn26 H aving announced a goal to launch e-MOP within two years in mid-2025, authorities have now entered the sandbox testing phase, with the Monetary Authority of Macao (AMCM) revealing that transaction testing is currently being conducted via a whitelist of users. Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai, in his inaugural Policy Address, announced his commitment to advancing the research and development of the “e-MOP” system, outlining a plan to complete core system construction by the end of last year and conduct phased sandbox testing, while systematically broadening the digital currency’s application scenarios across cross-border trade and public services. Subsequently, then-Secretary for Economy and Finance Anton Tai elaborated that the initial phase of promoting the digital pataca would concentrate on the retail sector, followed by the wholesale sector, with eventual expansion beyond Macau to integrate with Portuguese-speaking platforms, aiming to establish it as one of the digital tran...
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Moedas digitais centralizadas apresentam “maior segurança” 0 0 0 2 Jun, 2026

 may26 Representantes do sector bancário de Portugal e do Brasil defenderam que moedas digitais centralizadas apresentam menores custos e maior segurança para pagamentos internacionais. Em Macau para participar num seminário de sobre moedas digitais centralizadas organizado pela Autoridade Monetária, o administrador do Banco de Portugal, Luís Morais Sarmento, destacou que o projecto do Euro digital se encontra numa “fase avançada de prontidão técnica” e que o objectivo é assegurar que seja “tão seguro como o numerário, mas adaptado à era digital”. Emitido pelo Banco Central Europeu (BCE) e pelos bancos centrais nacionais, o Euro digital deverá funcionar como um equivalente electrónico ao dinheiro em espécie, mas permitindo pagamentos rápidos em toda a Zona Euro. Com vista a uma eventual emissão em 2029, o BCE está actualmente na fase de prontidão técnica e a avaliar candidaturas de mais de 50 prestadores de serviços de pagamento para a realização de um projecto-piloto. Sarmento sub...
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Yuan digital quer tornar pagamentos com paises lusofonos mais rapidos e transparentes (concorrência eMop)

  https://www.plataformamedia.com/2026/06/01/yuan-digital-quer-tornar-pagamentos-com-paises-lusofonos-mais-rapidos-e-transparentes/
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Macau joins international central bank digital currency platform mBridge

 jn26 AMCM has fully joined the mBridge project to enable cross-border digital currency payments, with 11 local banks authorised to start transactions on Tuesday The move coincides with advanced infrastructure testing for Macau’s own digital pataca, which aims to enhance local payment efficiency and strengthen the city’s role as a financial hub for Portuguese-speaking countries  The Monetary Authority of Macao (AMCM) announced on Monday its full membership in the mBridge project, a multilateral central bank digital currency platform designed to enable cross-border payments without relying on the US dollar. Eleven local banks have already been authorised to participate and can conduct transactions starting Tuesday, AMCM Executive Director Henrietta Lau Hang Kun said during a financial seminar in Macau. The mBridge project is a multilateral platform for cross-border payments using digital currencies issued by central banks. It was jointly developed by the People’s Bank of China,...
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expert Fai Lim LOI, Dennis

 Fai Lim LOI, Dennis Photo Academic Qualification  2022      Title : Assistant Professor Faculty： School of Business Email address： flloi@must.edu.mo Tel： (853)  Ph.D.: University of Macau, Finance 2017      MA(Hons): University of Edinburgh, Economics with Finance Working Experience  2024 - Present  Assistant Professor / Macau University of Science and Technology 2022 - 2024  Postdoctoral Research Fellowship / Tsinghua University Teaching Activities  Financial Statement Analysis Fundamentals of Finance Research Interests FinTech Digital Currency Behavior Finance Corporate Finance  https://wm-fs2.must.edu.mo/group1/M00/06/6B/rBCDo2bVOmGACLDnAAQqjlTju1c716.pdf
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