00178.HK became tencent's (00700.HK) world's first cross-border offline payment partner

Sasha (00178.HK) 0.000 (0.000%) short $4.71 million; Rate 0.677% announced short with Tencent (00700.HK) +0.200 (+0.130%) short $339 million; Tenpay, a payment platform with a rate of 16.559%, took the lead in launching WeChat Pay in about 100 stores across Hong Kong today, becoming Tencent's first cross-border offline payment partner in the world.

With the launch of "WeChat Pay", any customer can receive a cash red envelope of RMB100 through a smartphone equipped with WeChat and pay HK$100 during the promotion period.

Dr Kai Lu, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of Salsa, said, "With the rapid development of Internet and mobile communication technologies, the use of technology is the key for local retailers to effectively enhance their services and meet the shopping needs of customers. As Tencent's first partner in the world to launch cross-border offline "WeChat Pay", Sasha believes that after the service is fully launched, more customers will shop with this novel mobile payment method, so that customers no longer need to carry cash and bank cards for consumption, bringing a more convenient and intimate shopping experience."

Tencent Tenpay said: "Through this cooperation with Salsa, we hope to give more mainland users a more convenient payment method when shopping in Hong Kong. In addition, Sasha's retail network is all over Hong Kong and has a very wide range of customers, which will help to effectively promote WeChat Pay to the outside world, and in the future, this new mobile payment method will be extended to other retailers, and gradually become popular in Hong Kong. WeChat Pay will follow in the footsteps of Chinese tourists around the world." (Quotes are delayed by at least fifteen minutes.) Short selling information as of 2015-06-17 16:25. )