Messaging app Line is pushing ahead with its financial technology plans, and has announced a wider partnership with Visa to integrate not just contactless payments, but to add a prepaid digital Visa ...

The initiative is called the Cross-Border Mobile Payment Alliance, and it’s meant to allow people from Japan, Korea and Thailand to be able to use their own payment service when they’re in Taiwan.

Line, the maker of a digital chat app in Japan, disclosed on Tuesday (May 30) that close to half of its domestic chat app users are also using its payment app. According to a report, the number of ...