Third-party bank card acquirers in China(56 companies totally)
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1.支付宝/Alipay
Headquerter:Hangzhou
As a global famous payment company, Alipay has cooperated with 56 oversea countries to support Alipay in their markets so far.
Alipay has taken up 55% market share in Chinese third party paymet market in 2019. Its business areas include internet payment, bank card acquiring, mobile payment, and prepaid card issuing & acceptance.
2.银联商务/ChinaUMS
Headquarter: Shanghai
Established in December 2002 and headquartered in Shanghai, China UnionPay Merchant Services Co., Ltd. is held by China UnionPay and specialized in the construction of bankcard acceptance market and provision of integrated payment services. China UMS is one of the first payment institutions to obtain the Payment Business License issued by the People's Bank of China. It serves almost 8 million merchants in domestic market.
3.拉卡拉/Lakala
Headquarter: Beijing
Lakala listed Chinese stock market in April,2019 and its stock symbol is 300773.This is a main third party bank card acquirer in China as it was founded in 2005, and it has served Chinese payment market for 15 years. Its total capitalization value is almost 5 billion dollars by the press time.
4.汇付天下/Huifu
Headquarter: Shanghai
Huifu was founded in 2006 and it is one of the third-party acquirers who obtained acquirer license earliest in China. It listed HongKong stock market in 2018, its stock symbol is 01806.HK.
5.通联支付/ALL IN PAY
Headquarter: Shanghai
It was established in October, 2008 and headquartered in Shanghai. All-In-Pay is one of the vice-president members of Payment & Clearing Association of China and the standing board member of China General Chamber Of commerce. It also got the qualification of cross-border payment and settlement.
6. 易宝支付/YEEPAY
Headquarter: Beijing
The company was established in 2003 and now owns 30 branch offices, serving millions of merchants. With its focus on vertical sectors, it delivers one-stop solutions for payment and value-added marketing in the fields such as cross-border business, air&travel, retail, consumer finance, internet finance, education，telecommunications and insurance.
7. 乐刷/Yeahka
Headquarter: Shenzhen
Yeahka obtained national bank card acquiring license and mobile phone payment license from PBOC in 2014. According to Oliver Wyman, it is the second largest non-bank independent QR Code payment service provider in China in terms of average daily transaction count in 2019. Its annual transaction value reached 220 billion dollars in 2019. It was founded in 2011.
8.联动优势/UMF
Headquarter: Beijing
It was founded by China Mobile and China UnionPay in 2003. Then purchased by HYUNION HOLDINGS(stock symbol: 002537.SZ) in 2016. Its business distributes in over 200 countries and regions.
9.财付通/TENPAY
Headquarter: Shenzhen
Rank behind Alipay, Tenpay takes up about 39% market share in Chinese third party payment market. It was launched in 2005 by Tencent.
10.中付支付
Headquarter: Shenzhen
It was founded in 2007, and has two acquirer lisences: internet payment and bank card payment.
11.嘉联支付/JLPAY
Headquarter: Shenzhen
Founded in 2009, JLPAY focus on bank card acquiring business only in the whole country.
12.盛付通/shengpay
Headquarter: Shanghai
Established in 2008, shengpay obtained acquirer lisence in 2011 and became one of the payment companies who got acquirer lisences earliest in China.
It is also one of the only four payment companies who have online/offline payment, prepaid card issuing & acceptance, cross-border transfer, and micro loan business.
13.银盛支付/YINSHENG E-PAY
Headquarter: Shenzhen
Established in 2009, YINSHENG E-PAY obtained acquirer lisence in 2011. Now it serves over 4 million merchants. It is a subsidiary of YINSHENG GROUP.
14.汇卡商务/UNIONWEB PAY
Headquarter:Guangzhou
Founded in 2010, unionwebpay focus on bank cards acquiring business, also provdes value-added service around core business.
15.深圳市银联金融网络/ChinaUMS
Headquarter: Shenzhen
Affiliated with China UnionPay Merchants Service, it was established in 1996 and works on bank card acquiring business in Guangdong province only.
16. 瑞银信/RUI PAY
Headquarter: Shenzhen
RUI PAY was founded in 2003, now its payment business is relevant to two sectors, one is bank card acquiring, the other one is mobile phone acquiring.
17.易办事/ebankunion
Headquarter:Shenzhen
Founded in 2000, ebankunion works on bank card acquiring in Guangdong province only.
18.付临门/FREE MY PAY
Headquarter:Shanghai
FREE MY PAY was founded in 2009, got acquirer lisence in 2011, and became top 10 of third party bank card acquirers in China in 2018. Its headquarter locates in Shanghai.
19.信汇支付/xhepay
Headquarter: Guangzhou
Founded in 2012, xhepay does bank card acquiring business in two provinces: Guangdong and Fujian.
20.随行付/vbill
Headquarter: Beijing
Vbill was founded in 2011, so far it has the most off-line small merchants in China. It has all acquiring lisences including bank cards, online, mobile telephone, fixed telephone, and prepaid card. It also has the qualification of cross-border payment and settlement.
21.新生支付/NEW PAY
Headquarter: Haikou
Founded in 2008, New Pay is a payment platform belonging to HNA group(stock symbol:600221.SH)and does internet payment, bank card acquiring, prepaid card issuing & acceptance.
22.快钱/ 99Bill
Headquarter: Shanghai
Founded in 2004, has more than 400 million individual users. It was purchased by wanda group(stock symbol:300168. SZ) in 2014.
23.易票联/ePay
Headquarter:Guangzhou
ePay was establised in 1999, and it is member of ChinaUnionPAY and Master Card. Its bank card acquiring business is limited in Guangdong province only.
24.钱袋宝/qiandaibao
Headquarter: Beijing
It was founded in 2008 and wholly purchased by meituan(stock symbol:3690.HK) in 2016.
25.中汇支付/CNEPAY
Headquarter: Tianjin
Established in 2009 and based in Tianjin, CNEPAY does bank cards acquiring business only. Its business areas include Tianjin, Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing and Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shanxi, Sichuan provinces, etc.
26. 现代金控/MODERNPAY
Headquarter: Beijing
Founded in 2010 and registered in Chengdu, ModernPay seted its headquarter in Beijing. It is one of 22 payment companies who have double acquiring licenses(online and offline bank card acquiring) in China.
27.卡友
Headquarter: Shanghai
As a holding subsidiary of ChinaUnionPay, CardPayment Service was established in 2003.It became independent as a result of shareholding reform in 2009, and purchased by Tatwah Smartech(stock symbol:002512. SZ ) in 2015.
28. 和融通/HRT PAYMENT
Headquarter: Beijing
Founded in 2009, it becomes a key POS player now, and it owns 3 million merchants and has deployed more than 4 million POS terminal so far.
29.支付通/PayExpress
Headquarter: Chengdu
Established in 2011, PayExpress has more than 300 professional employees now, and it has deployed more than 70,000 POS terminals in domestic market, owning60,000+ merchants. Its market is limited in Sichuan province only.
30.盛迪嘉支付/SHEND DI JIA PAY
Headquarter: Shenzhen
Established in 2013, sheng di jia pay is one of 22 third party acquirers who own internet payment and bank cards acquiring business.
31.广州银结通电子支付
Headquarter: Guangzhou
It is a susidiary of Guangzhou Bank Electronic Settlement Center, and focus on bank card acquiring business in Guangdong province only.
32.环迅支付
Headquarter: Shanghai
Established in 2011, it does bank card acquiring business in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Fujian provinces and Tianjin. It has 600,000+ merchants totally so far. It also has internet payment and mobile payment acquiring lisences.
33.平安付/Ping An Pay
Headquarter: Shanghai
Ping An Pay is a subsidiary of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd., which is one of the largest financial services companies in the world. It was esbablished in 2002.
34.恒通支付/htpaypay
Headquarter: Shenzhen
It's a subsidiary of SF Express(stock symbol:002352.SZ) and focus on various payment methods, including payment by website, mobile app, wechat offical account, collect money by scanning, etc.
35.腾付通/tftpay
Headquarter: Shenzhen
It is wholly-owned subsidiary of Tempus(stock symbol:300178.sz or 06880. HK, https://www.tempus.cn), and its business distributes in internet payment, mobile telephone payment, and bank card acquiring.
36.电银支付/Chinaebi
Headquarter:Shanghai
Establised in 2011, it is the largest mobile airline service provider, and coopearated with China Eastern, China Southern, HAINAN AIRLINES, Capital Airlines to provide value-added services.
37.中移电子/cmpay
Headquarter: Changsha
As whlloy owned subsidiary of China Mobile Communications Group, basing on Changsha city, cmpay obtained payment lisence in 2011, and it focus on internet payment, mobile phone payment, prepaid card issuing & acceptance, and bank card acquiring.
38.联通支付（沃支付）/epay.10010
Headquarter: Beijing
Establihed in 2011, as whlloy owned subsidiary of China United Network Communications Group, epay.10010 obtains full payment lisences, including internet payment, mobile phone payment, prepaid card issuing & acceptance, bank card acquiring.
39.翼支付/bestpay
Headquarter: Beijing
Established in 2011. Bestpay is wholloy owned subsidiary of China Telecom Group, and focus on internet payment, mobile phone payment, prepaid card issuing & acceptance, and bank card acquiring.
40.易通金服/Etonepay
Headquarter: Ji'nan
Established in 2012 and obtained payment lisence in 2016. Business areas: Internet payment, prepaid card issuing & acceptance, bank card acquiring.
41.捷付睿通/mipay
Headquarter:Huhehaote
Established in 2011, and obtained acquirer lisence in the same year. It was financed and controlled by mi(stock symbol:01810.HK) in 2016, now it becomes the payment platform of mi.
42.付费通
Headquarter: Shanghai
Established in 2003 and obtained acqurier lisence in 2011. Business scope: Internet payment, prepaid card issuing & acceptance(limited in Shanghai), bank card acquiring.
43.资和信/zihexin
Headquarter: Beijing
Founded in 2006 and obtained acquirer lisence in 2011. Business scope: Internet payment, prepaid card issuing & acceptance(limited in Shanghai), bank card acquiring.
44.畅捷支付/chanpan
Headquarter: Beijing
Founded in 2013. Acquirer lisences: internet payment, bank card acquiring.
45.合利宝 /helipay
Headquarter: Guangzhou
Established in 2013, helipay has 300+ employees now. Its business scope: Internet payment, bank card acquiring, relevant to airline travel, smart retails, fintech, education, cross-border payment and so on.
46.重庆钱宝
Headquarter: Chongqing
Founded in 2005. Business areas: internet payment, bank card acquiring. Its business distributes in over 70 countries, has docked with visa, master, american express, discover and cooperated with over 60 banks in the global.
47.国通星驿
Headquarter: Fuzhou
Founded in 2011, it is whlloy owned by NEWLAND(stock symbol: 000997.SZ). It does bank card acquiring business only.
48.杉德支付 /SandPay
Headquarter: Shanghai
Established in 2005 and obtained acquiring lisence in 2011. SandPay owns over 400,000 merchants.Business scope: internet payment, bank card acquiring, prepaid card issuing & acceptance, mobile phone payment.
49.开店宝支付/点佰趣
Headquarter: Shanghai
Founded in 2006, it obtained bank card acquiring lisence in 2011.
50.海科融通/HaiKeRongTong Payment
Headquarter :Beijing
Set up in 2001, it obtained bank card acquiring lisence in 2011. It cooperates with over 30 banking institutions and serves over 4 million micro merchants.
51.上海申鑫
Headquarter: Shanghai
Established in 2004 and obtained bank card acquiring lisence in 2012. Its business is limited in Shanghai city only.
52.网银在线
Headquarter: Beijing
Founded in 2003, and obtained acquiring lisence in 2011. It was purchased by JingDong. It serves more than 5 million merchants.
53. 山西易联支付
Headquarter:Taiyuan
Established in 2004. It does bank card acquiring business only and it is limited in shanxi province only.
54.山东运达
Headquarter: Ji'nan
Established in 2006 and obtained bank card acquiring lisence in 2014. Its acquiring business is limited in shandong province.
55.数字王府井/Beijing Digital Wangfujing Technology
Headquarter: Beijing
Founded in 2001 and obtained bank card acquiring lisence in 2011. Now it is a subsidiary of ChinaUMS.
56.富有支付/FUIOUPAY
Headquarter: Shanghai
FUIOU was founded in 2008 and obtained acquiring lisences in 2011. It supports cross-border payment and cover 8 settlement curriencies including USD, EUR, HKD, MOP, JPY, KRW, AUD, SGD.
There are still some other payment companies not listed here, and I will update them in near future. All above information is only used for personal reference.