{"id":131548,"date":"2025-06-22T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131548"},"modified":"2025-06-22T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T08:00:15","slug":"hongkongers-mainland-residents-embrace-payment-connect-service-on-first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131548","title":{"rendered":"Hongkongers, mainland residents embrace Payment Connect service on first day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHongkongers and mainland residents jumped at the chance to send money across the border via a new electronic payment service on its first day of operation on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe so-called Payment Connect was operating smoothly, with 2,000 Northbound and 7,400 Southbound transactions just after noon, according to a spokesperson for the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA).<br \/>\nThe People\u2019s Bank of China and the HKMA announced the linkage on Friday. Connecting Hong Kong\u2019s Faster Payment System (FPS) to the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/banking-finance\/article\/3315380\/payment-connect-hongkongers-mainland-china-residents-embrace-service-launch-day?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHongkongers and mainland residents jumped at the chance to send money across the border via a new electronic payment service on its first day&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}