Yeahka's overseas payment arm adds Huawei, BYD, Stefano Ricci and seven others across F&B, retail, consumer electronics, mobility and energy, while preparing acceptance infrastructure for the next era of AI-agent-initiated commerce.
SINGAPORE, June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- YeahPay, the overseas payment brand of Hong Kong-listed Yeahka (9923.HK), processed RMB 2.439 billion in cross-border transactions in the first quarter of 2026, roughly four times its volume in the same period a year earlier. The growth coincides with a wave of new merchant partnerships across multiple verticals, including Jumbo, ChaPanda, TWG, Stefano Ricci, Huawei, Honor, OPPO, BYD, and Singapore's well-known local chain Union Gas. The partnerships span food and beverage, retail, luxury, consumer electronics, new energy mobility, and energy services, marking an accelerated phase of merchant ecosystem expansion for YeahPay overseas.
YeahPay represents a core pillar of Yeahka's overseas strategy. The company has secured a series of high-value payment licenses, including a Money Service Operator (MSO) licence in Hong Kong, a Major Payment Institution (MPI) licence in Singapore, Money Services Business (MSB) and Arizona Money Transmitter (MTL) licences in the United States, and payment approvals in Japan. From this licensed base across the Asia-Pacific and North American markets, YeahPay continues to extend its global business presence as digital trade ecosystems converge.
Leveraging the international channel ecosystem built by parent company Yeahka, YeahPay has established long-term partnerships with leading global payment network members including Visa, Mastercard, and UnionPay International, achieving comprehensive access to mainstream international card networks. In early 2026, YeahPay also forged a strategic alliance with Hong Kong's Octopus Card, providing Hong Kong merchants with more diversified payment and settlement services and strengthening the local penetration of its regional acceptance network.
The expansion is unfolding against a backdrop of structural change in APAC payments. The next generation of cross-border commerce is increasingly defined not only by who initiates the transaction; a human, a wallet, or an AI agent acting on a user's behalf, but by the infrastructure underneath it: identity, compliance, risk, and settlement across markets. Global payment networks have publicly committed to agentic commerce as a strategic frontier, and merchant demand for agent-ready acceptance is moving from concept to active roadmap conversations across the region.