The company, which denies the allegation, has been in talks for months with Walmart Inc and Oracle Corp to shift such assets into a new entity.ĭouyin is the main revenue generator for ByteDance. Hezhong Yibao obtained a third-party payment license from the central bank in 2014.īyteDance has been ordered by the outgoing Trump administration to divest TikTok’s U.S. Local Chinese media reported on Tuesday that Douyin Pay had been launched.īyteDance founder and Chief Executive Zhang Yiming built up the company’s payment capability in China by acquiring Wuhan Hezhong Yibao Technology Co last year. Users of Douyin, which accumulated 600 million daily active users, previously could use Ant Group’s Alipay and Tencent Holdings’ WeChat Pay, the country’s two ubiquitous third-party mobile payment channels, to buy virtual gifts for livestreamers or items from shops on the platform. “The set-up of Douyin Pay is to supplement the existing major payment options, and to ultimately enhance user experience on Douyin,” Douyin said in a statement to Reuters on Tuesday. Beijing-based ByteDance recently launched its own third-party payment service for Douyin, the Chinese version of its hit short video app TikTok, as it presses to expand into the e-commerce business in China, Reuters reports.
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