Clear2Pay has announced the opening of its China office in Shenzhen, which will be responsible for sales, professional services, local development and support in the Chinese region.

Clear2Pay China is the result of a joint venture between Clear2Pay and Data House and led by Frank Wu. The Shenzhen office is home to over 35 staff with a sales team headed up by Chan Mun Kiat and Frank Wu.

With a strong presence in the Asia Pacific region through its offices in Australia and Singapore, Clear2Pay has been in close touch with the developing Chinese payments market over an extended period.

“Because of the numerous cross-border payments projects we have executed in the Asia Pacific region, we are very well positioned to connect local, as well as foreign banks to the Chinese national payment infrastructure (CNAPS)”, states Warren Gardiner, General Manager Asia Pacific for Clear2Pay.

Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, Clear2Pay is an innovative financial technology company focused on delivering globally applicable solutions for secure, timely electronic payments. It’s payment solutions offer organizations easy, branded ways for their customers to pay online: from complex trade-supporting business-to-business environments, through e-commerce applications, to retail payments and remittance services. Functions embrace payments origination, reporting, linkage with back-office processing systems, clearing, netting and settlement. Clients include global and major regional financial institutions such as ING, SEB Kort, VISA, MasterCard, ABN AMRO, Nordea, Abbey National, Fortis Bank, ANZ and Commonwealth Bank. Clear2Pay operates out of Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, China and Singapore and currently employs 260 staff. (Clear2pay)

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