Wow! Seems you guys have a very short memory:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...trol-alipay-wechat-pay-deposits-is-power-grab
China Is Strangling Its Private Champions
By taking over the deposits of platforms like Alipay and WeChat Pay, the PBOC is making a power grab. All in the name of protecting consumers.
In the name of
risk management, the People’s Bank of China in January officially became the custodian of all deposits from third-party payment groups, a transition that started in 2017. Before then, the likes of Ant Financial’s Alipay and Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat Pay had piles of cash accumulating on their platforms, which they’d invest to generate returns – without always paying interest to users. That didn’t sit well with the central bank and spurred regulation requiring the money to move into non-interest-bearing accounts under its purview.
Oh LOL! We'll be using Apple Card in a few weeks to get around banks.
"A Credit Card created by Apple...
not a bank"
Apple will instantly push out banks in the dozens of countries ApplePay is accepted. We’ll see whose country’s banks yell first!! Your banks already took Alipay and WeChat pay deposits
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207957
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