{"id":447979,"date":"2026-05-27T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/447979\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:06:10","slug":"tencent-links-paypal-to-wechat-pay-network-enabling-us-users-to-spend-across-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/447979\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent links PayPal to WeChat Pay network, enabling US users to spend across China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">BEIJING, May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. PayPal users can now make purchases across \u200cChina using WeChat Pay&#8217;s QR-code \u200cmerchant network, Tencent Financial Technology said on Wednesday, \u200badding the service will be rolled out to PayPal users in other markets in phases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 Tencent&#8217;s cross-border payment platform \u200cTenPay Global \u2060is now connected to PayPal World, Tencent Financial Technology vice \u2060president Daniel Hong said, according to a company social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 The company \u200bis offering \u200bincentives to \u200bencourage the use \u200cof foreign bank cards linked to WeChat Pay, including temporary fee waivers through 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 It will also expand language support and on-the-ground assistance for international users \u200cin Shenzhen ahead \u200bof the Asia-Pacific Economic \u200bCooperation (APEC) meeting \u200bin November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 Ant Group&#8217;s Alipay \u200cand Tencent&#8217;s WeChat Pay \u200bdominate China&#8217;s \u200bdigital payments market, underpinning everyday transactions across retail, transport and services in \u200bthe \u200cworld&#8217;s largest mobile payments market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by \u200bShi Bu and Liz Lee. Editing \u200bby Mark Potter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING, May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. PayPal users can now make purchases across \u200cChina using WeChat Pay&#8217;s QR-code&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[228290,342,111,139,69,33162,145,615,54413],"class_list":["post-447979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-merchant-network","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paypal","tag-technology","tag-tencent","tag-wechat-pay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}