Monday, January 22, 2007

Research on China e-payment

While I don't want to turn this into the China e-payment blog, it is certainly a topic which has elicited some interest from the posts in the last week or so (here and here). I was interested then, to see that the prolific, Shanghai-based iResearch has produced its "Online Payment Research Report 2006" and includes two excerpts on its web site.

The first talks of the size of the online payment market. Interestingly, online payment is falling as a percentage of the total with mobile and telephone payment increasing, the research suggests. Overall, though, online payment continues to grow quickly:



The other piece notes that the overall e-payment market grew 122% in 2005 with equally fast growth predicted for 2006 and 2007:


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