PayPal to enter China mobile payments market through local acquisition
October 8, 2019 Category China News Round-up, Weekly
U.S. digital money transfer platform PayPal Holdings has obtained Beijing’s approval to buy a controlling stake in a domestic payments firm, which would make PayPal the first foreign firm to enter China’s payment services market. Gopay Information Technology, PayPal’s acquisition target, has received approval from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) to sell a 70% stake to PayPal. Gopay has licenses for mobile, online and cross-border yuan payment services. PayPal will make the acquisition through a subsidiary in Shanghai. No financial terms were disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Early last year, China’s central bank announced that it was opening the country’s domestic market to foreign third-party electronic payment firms, a move intended to promote competition in the retail payments industry.
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