[Tianji Network Channel] as one of the two major mobile payment giants in China, Alipay has already started its "overseas journey". In this regard, another giant wechat payment has also stepped up its pace of entering the overseas market
today, according to British media reports, Tencent recently launched wechat payment service in the UK. It is reported that Tencent cooperated with safecharge, a British listed payment company, and launched relevant services in Camden market, a famous flea market in London
it is understood that the Camden market requires more than 1000 stores and restaurants to sign cooperation agreements with wechat in the next four months, so that people with Bank of China accounts bound on wechat can use smartphones to shop in the Camden market
it should be noted that in the Camden market, shops using wechat payment need to pay a commission of 0.6% to 2% to safecharge. In addition, this cooperation is the first time wechat payment has entered the UK market
start the overseas payment war! Tencent launched wechat payment service in the UK: for Chinese tourists
in recent years, Chinese people are more and more fond of overseas tourism and shopping on holidays. According to the statistics of visit Britain, Chinese consumers spent 513 million pounds in the UK in 2016. I believe this is also one of the important reasons why safeforge is willing to cooperate with Tencent.