REPORT: Ant Financial and Tencent are rapidly growing their financial services ecosystems — here's exactly what they offer and where we think they'll go next (TCEHY)

This is a preview of the Fintech Disruptors from the East research report from Business Insider Intelligence. 14-Day Risk Free Trial: Get full access to this and all Fintech industry research reports. Over the past 15 years, spending in China has become increasingly powered by mobile payments. In Q4 2018, China's third-party mobile payments industry was estimated to be worth 47.2 trillion yuan ($6.8 trillion) per Analysys, as cited by TechNode. This eclipsed the country's total retail sales for all of 2018, which came in at 38.1 trillion yuan ($5.5 trillion).

The mobile payments market is controlled by Ant Financial's Alipay, which held a leading 53.8% market share in Q4 2018, and Tencent's WeChat Pay, which, along with fellow Tencent-owned payment service QQ Wallet, commanded a 38.9% share.

Ant and Tencent's combined mobile payments dominance means that other companies need to actively work with or against the powerhouses, especially as they've also stretched into other financial services, including peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, cross-border capabilities, wealth management features, consumer lending, and insurance. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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