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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

Company announcement/payments

Azimo partners with Alipay to provide instant money transfers to China

You can now send money to China instantly with Azimo, the global money transfer service, after they announced a partnership with Alipay, China’s leading payments platform.

10 September 2020

News/sustainable

Alipay Ant Forest, the catalyst for enabling citizen action towards carbon reduction

According to the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA), by introducing nudging and incentives on digital platforms, there is potential for substantial behavioural change among digitally-savvy consumers. This can act as a springboard for scalable global climate change mitigation and reduce 8.6% of emissions from public transport.

26 August 2020

Company announcement/payments

Paysend enters technology partnership with Alipay for global remittances

Paysend, the global Fintech corporation based in UK, announces a technology collaboration with Alipay to provide Paysend's users with cross-border money transfer that brings more conven-ient and inclusive services to consumers globally.

24 August 2020

Company announcement/payments

Alipay dishes out digital coupons to 10 million SMEs since 1 July

Alipay, the leading daily life services platform operated by Ant Group, today unveiled new data on how it is facilitating the digitalization of service providers via digital coupons as they continue to resume regular business operations.

17 July 2020