中国's central bank 勧めるs 独占禁止の 調査（する） into Alipay, WeChat 支払う／賃金 -sources
By Keith Zhai and Julie Zhu
SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, July 31 (Reuters) - 中国's 最高の，を越す 独占禁止の 機関 is looking at whether to 開始する，打ち上げる a 調査（する） into Alipay and WeChat 支払う／賃金, 誘発するd by the central bank which argues the 数字表示式の 支払い（額） 巨大（な）s have used their 支配的な positions to quash 競争, sources with knowledge of the 事柄 said.
The 明言する／公表する 会議's 独占禁止の 委員会 has been 集会 （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） on Alipay, owned by Ant Group which in turn is an (v)提携させる(n)支部，加入者 of Alibaba Group 持つ／拘留するing Ltd, 同様に as on Tencent Holdings Ltd's WeChat 支払う／賃金 for more than a month, they said.
Any 調査 would likely 鈍らせる enthusiasm for Ant Group's planned 二重の 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）ing in Hong Kong and Shanghai that is 捜し出すing a valuation of more than $200 billion.
The 独占禁止の 委員会 has not made a 決定／判定勝ち（する） about whether to proceed with an 調査, the sources said, and it was not （疑いを）晴らす when a 決定／判定勝ち（する） might be made. One source said the 委員会 is taking the People's Bank of 中国's 推薦 "very 本気で".
The sources, who 拒絶する／低下するd to be identified as the 政策 審議s were confidential, also said that Ant and Tencent are ロビーing 政府 公式の／役人s in an 成果／努力 to 妨げる a 調査（する）.
The 明言する／公表する 会議 （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） Office and the central bank did not 答える／応じる to requests for comment. Ant and Tencent did not 答える／応じる to requests for comment on the 可能性のある 調査（する）.
The People's Bank of 中国 正式に recommended いつか in the second ４半期/4分の1 that the 明言する／公表する 会議 委員会 should look into 独占禁止の 問題／発行するs 提起する／ポーズをとるd by the country's 非，不，無-bank 支払い（額） companies, one of the sources said.
GIANTS IN THEIR FIELD
If the 明言する／公表する 会議 独占禁止の 委員会 decides to go ahead with a 調査（する） it would 示す a change of tack for regulators.
"I do find it surprising as the Chinese regulators have pretty much taken a wait and see approach and only lightly 規制するd 中国's 数字表示式の 支払い（額）s space since they started in 2004," said Zennon Kapron, director of Shanghai-based 財政上の 産業 研究 会社／堅い Kapronasia.
"This is also the first time that they are looking at Alipay and WeChat 支払う／賃金 from an anti-信用 視野," he 追加するd.
Alipay and WeChat 支払う／賃金 services, which enable 支払い（額）s at the convenience of a code ざっと目を通す, have become ubiquitous in daily life in 中国, with many people now rarely using cash.
The country's 動きやすい banking market logged some 56.2 一兆 yuan ($8 一兆) 価値（がある） of 処理／取引s in the last three months of 2019, によれば 国内の consultancy Analysys. It 見積（る）s Alipay 命令（する）s 55% of the market and that Tencent's fintech 商売／仕事, most of which is WeChat 支払う／賃金, has 39%.
But 当局 have been keen to whittle 支援する their dominance. In an 成果／努力 to encourage smaller players to enter the market, the central bank said last year it planned to standardise the interoperability of QR code 支払い（額）s.
中国's 法律を制定する 団体／死体 is also 審議ing major 改正s to its 独占禁止の 法律s for the first time in more than 11 years, which are 始める，決める to 含む 拡大するd 基準 for 裁判官ing a company's 支配（する）／統制する of a market.
One of the world's most 価値のある unlisted companies, Ant 生成するd about $2.2 billion in 利益（をあげる） in the fourth ４半期/4分の1, によれば Reuters 計算／見積りs based on 人物／姿／数字s from Alibaba regulatory filings. Its main service Alipay has more than 900 million 使用者s in 中国.
WeChat 支払う／賃金 had over 800 million 月毎の active 使用者s in the fourth ４半期/4分の1, によれば Tencent's 2019 年次の 報告（する）／憶測.
($1 = 7.0080 Chinese yuan) (報告（する）／憶測ing by Keith Zhai in Singapore and Julie Zhu in Hong Kong; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
