DBS, a Singapore-based bank, said on 12 November that its PayLah! app now lets more than 3 million users pay at over 100 million Alipay and Weixin Pay partner merchants in mainland China. Users can scan merchants’ quick response (QR) codes or present their own codes for merchants to scan.

Partnerships with Ant International, the Singapore-headquartered overseas arm of Ant Group, and Tencent’s cross-border payments unit TenPay Global extend PayLah!’s coverage beyond its existing UnionPay QR network.

DBS had previously said that network covered 31 million merchants globally.

DBS said it is the first and only bank in Singapore to support both QR payment methods across China’s three major QR payment ecosystems.

China’s National Immigration Administration said foreign nationals made 11.6 million trips to China from July to September 2026, up 15.6% year on year.

🔗 Source: DBS (DBS Bank Ltd)

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