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Chinese tech giant Tencent is checking out whether regulators will need it to produce a monetary holding business to home is fintech company, a magnate stated on Wednesday.
The remarks followed Bloomberg reported recently that Chinese authorities are thinking about needing Tencent to consist of We Chat Pay, its common mobile payments service, in a brand-new monetary holding business.
“We have been continuously exploring the establishment of the financial holding company and looking at the regulation with respect to that and whether there is a requirement for that,” Tencent President Martin Lau stated on a revenues call with media Wednesday, after the company published its slowest earnings development on record.
Bloomberg, pointing out individuals acquainted with the matter, reported that Tencent requires to put its banking, securities, insurance coverage and credit-scoring services into a monetary holding business that can be managed like a conventional bank.
The People’s Bank of China, the nation’s reserve bank, has actually long been worried about innovation business running banking-like services and the viewed threats that include that to monetary stability. Tencent, through messaging app We Chat, provides services from payments to microloans. We Chat has more than 1.2 billion regular monthly active users.
In November, regulators suspended the general public listing of Ant Group, which would have been the world’s biggest, over regulative issues. The PBOC has actually asked Ant Group, which is the monetary innovation affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba, to reorganize as a monetary holding business.
This month, the Chinese reserve bank authorized the facility of 2 monetary holding business.
Tencent’s Lau stated the web giant was seeing this advancement carefully for assistance.
“Recently there have been two financial holding company licenses that have been issued. We felt after that we should have a clearer picture on what are the criteria for inclusion into financial holding company and whether we qualify or not,” Lau stated. “We are proactively engaging in that discussion.”
The Tencent president stated that the regulators are attempting to “guide a healthier and more sustainable development” of the monetary market.
Setting up a monetary holding business would “involve some organizational changes” however Tencent would have the ability to comply and it must not affect business, Lau included.
