The central bank issued the fifth batch of third-party payment licenses

Beijing Commercial Daily (Reporter Yan Jin) Yesterday afternoon, the central bank hung up the fifth installment of third-party payment licenses on its website. The approved enterprises totaled 19, including 8 in Guangdong, 3 in Beijing, 3 in Shandong, 1 in each of Chongqing, Hubei, Guangxi, Shaanxi and Xinjiang, among which there are still many shadow companies behind.

Earlier, the central bank issued a total of four batches of third-party payment licenses, as early as May 18, 2011 27 units approved; August 29, 2011 13 units approved; December 22, 2011 61 units approved ; June 27, 2012 95 units approved.

Since then, the central bank has not issued licenses in bulk, but one after another to individual businesses. According to public information, after the release of the license, the number of licensed units will increase to 269.

It is worth mentioning that, although the majority of the 19 licensed enterprises have never heard of it, many enterprises have their own big companies behind them. The license to obtain this batch of Beijing help Alipay Network Technology Co., Ltd., was initiated by the Anbang Insurance established and holds 95%.

In the meantime, the central bank issued a license for internet payment services to Beijing Cheong Jietong Payment Technology Co., Ltd. Chang Jie Express directly holds 75% of the shares of the company, a subsidiary of UFIDA Software Co., Ltd. Beijing Licensed Real Estate Co., Ltd., a licensed bank, is a subsidiary of Chalco Real Estate.

In addition, in addition to the issuance of licenses, from July 8 to July 10, 27 more licensed businesses have expanded their business types. For example, Tencent's TenPay business types in the previous Internet payment, mobile phone payment, fixed-line payment services, based on the increase of bank card receipt business; RaKara payment Co., Ltd. in bank card receipt, Internet payment, digital television Payments based on an increase of mobile phone payment and prepaid card acceptance business.