GlobePay Prohibited Business List
Updated on September 2026
Subject to the requirement of payment service partners (i.e., WeChat Pay, Alipay, etc), settlement banks, and GlobePay’s own policy, a list of prohibited business will be kept and updated from time to time. GlobePay payment services will not be provided to any entity or individual conducting business within the scope of this list.
Update to this list will follow regulatory and legislative change. In the case that any existing client falls within this list due to an update, the business relationship shall be terminated.
| No. | Prohibited Businesses |
|---|---|
| Illegal/Restricted Products or Firearms/Weapons | |
| 1 | Ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories, including but not limited to military or police equipment |
| 2 | Counterfeit or replica goods or currency |
| 3 | Explosives and explosive devices |
| 4 | Forgery of documents, certificates or stamps |
| 5 | Hacking services |
| 6 | Human organs, body parts and remains |
| 7 | Human trafficking |
| 8 | Imitation firearms, firearm parts or equipment could cause bodily harm |
| 9 | Products or services that process pop-ups or contain, promote, reference or link to any spyware, malware, virus, back-door, drop dead device or other program installation |
| 10 | Rare, endangered and protected species and allied products |
| 11 | Sale of personal privacy information and other confidential information |
| 12 | Services or products that infringe on intellectual property rights |
| 13 | Services or products that infringe on personal privacy (e.g. online activity monitoring) |
| 14 | Smuggled goods |
| 15 | Surrogacy services |
| 16 | Weapons or knives controlled under Applicable Law |
| Pornography, Gambling, Drugs or Hazardous Goods | |
| 17 | Apparatus fit for use to take or produce dangerous drugs |
| 18 | Gambling or betting, including lottery tickets, casino gaming chips, off-track betting, memberships on gambling-allied internet sites and wagers at races, and allied devices and accessories |
| 19 | Illegal sale of drugs, alcohol, or drug paraphernalia or other products that might present a risk to consumer safety |
| 20 | Medical toxic drugs, narcotics drugs, anaesthetic drugs, prescription drugs, psychoactive drugs, special addictive drugs, radiopharmaceuticals, precursor chemicals, other controlled pharmaceutical products, and illegal unregistered drugs |
| 21 | Pests and hazardous biological products |
| 22 | Poisonous or hazardous chemicals |
| 23 | Pornographic and/or obscene products, pictures, channels, publications, and services including sex chatting, prostitution, escort services, adult massage, or other adult entertainment services, adult performer regardless of sexual orientation |
| 24 | Psychedelic drugs, diet pills and health products containing prohibited ingredients |
| Financial Products/Services | |
| 25 | Bail and Bond Payments |
| 26 | Banking products and services (including all types of loans) |
| 27 | Check cashing businesses |
| 28 | Crowdfunding |
| 29 | Financial Investment Course |
| 30 | Financial products and services, including trusts or asset management services, or products and services associated with the sale of traveller’s checks, money orders or foreign currency |
| 31 | Financial trading software or products and financial data service |
| 32 | Foreign exchange services |
| 33 | Illegal encashment activities |
| 34 | Illegal or unregistered fund-raising activities |
| 35 | Illegal sale of financial information (e.g. bank accounts, bank cards) |
| 36 | Illegal sale of payment acceptance terminals (excluding licensed acquirers and ISV) |
| 37 | Insurance products and services |
| 38 | Items that are associated with purchases of annuities or lottery contracts, lay-away systems, off-shore banking or transactions to finance or refinance debts funded by a credit card |
| 39 | Items that support pyramid or Ponzi schemes, matrix programs or other ”get rich quick” schemes or certain multi-level marketing programs |
| 40 | Loan platforms |
| 41 | Monetary and financial certificates (e.g. deposit certificate, commercial paper) |
| 42 | Mutual Funds |
| 43 | Other financial products and services including various types of financial intermediation services |
| 44 | Peer to peer (P2P) lending services |
| 45 | Rebate or cashback services |
| 46 | Safe deposit services |
| 47 | Stocks and securities |
| 48 | Trading or distribution of currency (both CNY and foreign currencies) |
| 49 | Trading or sale of crypto/virtual currencies and NFT |
| Tangible Goods/Services | |
| 50 | Archaeological and state-protected cultural relics and fossils |
| 51 | Chemicals and allied products |
| 52 | Crude oil，Petroleum and Petroleum Products (excluding gas stations) |
| 53 | Espionage equipment and accessories (e.g. wiretapping and hidden camera) |
| 54 | Information promoting terrorism and extremist groups |
| 55 | Information that endangers national security and other illegal political information |
| 56 | Jail breaker equipment or software |
| 57 | Legal tools for criminal use (e.g. lock picking tools and accessories) |
| 58 | Online sale of fireworks and firecrackers |
| 59 | Radioactive materials |
| 60 | Sale of ships and aircraft |
| 61 | Sales of valid or synthetic government IDs and documents |
| 62 | Signal jammer |
| 63 | VPN and other illegal proxy services |
| Intangible Goods/Services | |
| 64 | Collection agencies |
| 65 | Credit protection or identity theft protection services |
| 66 | Goods or services used to improperly obtain traffic or popularity, e.g. click farm (excluding legal marketing purposes) |
