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On April 10, 2019, Talkingchina Translation Company (http://www.talkingchina.com/) officially received the bidding announcement issued by UnionPay Data Services Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “UnionPay Data”), following the first bid in 2016. For the fourth time, it became the successful bid supplier for UnionPay data.
The UnionPay data was publicly tendered for the “Translation Service Targeted Procurement Project” (project number: CUPD-WG-1902-6). The main services of the tender are two-year English-Chinese, Chinese-English document translation and typesetting, simultaneous interpretation and interpreting services. Bidding is conducted in a competitive negotiation process, including qualification review, translation testing, on-site program demonstration and Q&A. The bidding process was strictly standard. Under the layer-by-layer screening, Talkingchina Translation stood out from nearly 10 bidding companies and successfully won the bid.
UnionPay Data is one of the major subsidiaries of China UnionPay. It was established in Shanghai in January 2003. In December 2005, the company introduced the strategic investor, Total System Services Inc. (“TSYS”). The company's main business is “to be a card-issuing service, mainly serving small and medium-sized banks without card issuance systems. It provides bank card data processing, integration and provision of solutions, service platforms and network infrastructure for all kinds of bank card business”.
The UnionPay Data International Business Team was formally established from the end of 2015, and Talkingchina Translation Company has established a long-term cooperative relationship with UnionPay Data since 2016. During the cooperation, Talkingchina translation services mainly include Chinese-English translation and English-Chinese translation. The corresponding typesetting service also provides on-site translation services. Whether it is translation quality, responsiveness or translation efficiency, TalkingChina's translation services have been highly praised by UnionPay data, especially the International Department of Translation Business Subjects.
In recent years, with the launch of the Silver Number Card, the “UnionPay Data Index” (Regional Bank Credit Card Development Vitality Index, referred to as “CDI”) has been released, as well as the Lujiazui Regional Bank Development Forum and the Myanmar Banker High-Level Exchange Conference. Successfully held, UnionPay data began to sound out louder and more confident and increasingly influential. In 2017, UnionPay data changed the company's vision to “the world's leading account service expert” and expanded its horizons to the world.
An important part of TalkingChina’s entrepreneurial spirit is “growth together”, which means that it is not only a simple supplier relationship with customers, but also a partner relationship. Therefore, it pays attention to the development trend of customers and analyzes their translation needs. Behind the deeper strategic needs in order to propose a better language service solution is the daily homework of TalkingChina translators.
We are pleased to note that in May 2017, UnionPay data held a “Partnership and Win-Win, Sharing the Future” business promotion conference in Myanmar; on November 9, 2017, UnionPay data “Smart Payment, Thai Wonderful” exchange meeting ended successfully in Bangkok, Thailand. Opening up the Thai market, and even the Southeast Asian and Central Asian markets have taken another solid step. Under the overall deployment of UnionPay's “going out” strategy, UnionPay data adheres to the mission of “technology is value-added for the account”. Together with overseas local bank card industry parties, it uses emerging payment technologies to solve traditional payment needs and jointly explore high quality and high efficiency. Safe and innovative financial services, realize cardholder experience value-added and bank card industry value-added; on March 1, 2018, UnionPay data helped UnionPay International and World Treasure Bank issue Myanmar's first UnionPay single-signature credit card. All these initiatives are the solid and positive steps taken by UnionPay data under the strategy of going global.
On the road to the internationalization of UnionPay data, TalkingChina's translations are often flashed. Tang can handle a large number of bank card user manuals and customer service proposals including the Chinese-English translation of the Malaysian axiata prepaid card integration project. Looking forward to the future, Talkingchina Translation Association spares no effort to adhere to its mission "TalkingChina Translation + Achievement Globalization" to escort the internationalization process of UnionPay data.
