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WeChat Pay and AliPay+ launch in Qatar

Qatar National Bank (QNB) has become the first bank in Qatar to launch mobile payment services WeChat Pay and AliPay+.

05 July 2022

Company announcement/payments

Alipay+ upgrades Cashier product

Ant Group today announced the launch of Alipay+ Unified Payment. This major product upgrade provides a unified, scalable technical solution to help online and brick-and-mortar merchants collect money through all digital payment methods supported by Alipay+ in a more convenient and effective way.

16 June 2022

Company announcement/payments

Unlimint adds Alipay+ to payments portfolio

Unlimint, the award-winning global fintech company, announced that it has partnered together with Alipay+ to further expand its global online payment portfolio.

01 June 2022

Company announcement/payments

Ingenico to support the rollout of Alipay+ through Payments-as-Service platform

Ingenico, a Worldline brand, and Ant Group today announced details of their partnership that will allow acquirers and other payment service providers to implement Alipay+ seamlessly across their merchant networks using Ingenico’s PPaaS (Payments Platform as a Service) cloud-based solution.

18 May 2022

Company announcement/payments

Ant Group takes majority stake in 2C2P

2C2P, a global payments platform and Ant Group today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate digital payment adoption and innovation.

19 April 2022

Company announcement/payments

Worldline integrates with Alipay+

Worldline, the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry and #4 player worldwide, announced the integration of Alipay+ into its global portfolio.

09 February 2022

News/payments

Sberbank launches mobile remittances to China

Russian state lender Sberbank has rolled out a service that lets customers send money to Alipay wallets in China using phone numbers.

04 February 2022

News/crypto

Former AliPay UK CEO Rita Liu on how regulators are boosting crypto literacy

Finextra sat down with Mode’s chief commercial officer Rita Liu – also former CEO of AliPay UK, to discuss Mode’s recent partnership with trade association CryptoUK, and how market players and regulators are boosting adoption and education around crypto.

03 November 2021

Company announcement/payments

Nuvei integrates with Alipay

Nuvei Corporation (“Nuvei”) (TSX: NVEI and NVEI.U), the global payment technology partner of thriving brands, and Alipay, the world’s leading digital payment platform operated by Ant Group, today announced a partnership that will connect Nuvei’s merchants with over 1.2 billion potential customers in the Asia Pacific region through the Alipay+ cross-border payment and merchant marketing solution.

29 July 2021

News/crypto

Ant Group and Tencent promote their work on digital yuan with PBoC – SCMP

This weekend, the two Chinese fintech giants Ant Group and Tencent prominently displayed posters during the Digital China Summit outlining a “history of cooperation with the PBoC on the digital yuan” according to the South China Morning Post.

26 April 2021

Company announcement/payments

Alipay rolls out virtual fortune cards

To commemorate Chinese New Year, Alipay has unveiled its annual “Five Fortune Card Collection” campaign, known as Wufu, which leverages Augmented Reality (AR) to enable users to search for and “collect” the auspicious Chinese character “Fu,” which represents good fortune and blessings for the upcoming year.

08 February 2021

News/payments

Trump signs executive order banning the use of Chinese payments apps

Outgoing US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with ten Chinese apps, including behemoths Alipay and WeChat Pay.

06 January 2021