Central bank takes aim at payment companies
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On Wednesday, the central bank (PBoC) issued draft rules for non-bank payment companies.
The goal: To curb monopolistic practices in the third-party payments industry.
Chinese payments giants could be broken up (Bloomberg):
“[A]ny non-bank payment company with half of the market ...