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By Gopal Sharma

May 23 2019 1:00PM

Central bank says payments from unregistered systems illegal, result in loss of income.

Nepal bans WeChat Pay, Alipay

Nepal has banned popular Chinese digital payment apps WeChat Pay and AliPay saying payments from the unregistered systems were illegal and resulting in a loss of income to the Himalayan nation, a spokesman for the central bank said on Wednesday. Laxmi Prapanna Niroula, a spokesman for the Nepal ...

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