Paypal pulling out of China?

According to local media, Tom Eachnet has announced plans to cancel the the use of its PayPal service in China. According to a report by iResearch, Paypal’s share of China’s third party payments market has been reduced to a miserly 1.6%.

Despite offering a free service for local currency payments, there were persistant rumours last year that Chinese regulators would force Paypal to partner with a local company, just as eBay themselves did with the TOM Group.

Meg Whitman said that eBay remained “very committed” to Paypal in China, but with such a tiny market share, she surely must be asking herself if it’s now worth persisting.

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