WeChat Pay has announced the launch of it’s open platform for overseas merchants. The announcement came in Tokyo in July at the WeChat Pay Overseas Open Conference

Reports suggest that this investment will be a top up to the $45 million raised by venture capitalists in a Series C funding round in 2017.

Across the globe, the retail industry is going digital.More and more consumers are turning to their laptops and smartphones when they want to make a purchase. Merchants are constantly searching for new ways to meld together the physical and the digital world. China in particular is experiencing huge growth in ecommerce