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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

Company announcement/retail

ICBC begins livestreaming on Alipay

On June 22, ICBC, the world’s largest bank by assets, became one of the first banks in China to leverage Alipay’s livestreaming feature to better engage with mobile-savvy users.

23 June 2020

Company announcement/payments

ICBC to offer deposits via Alipay

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (“ICBC”), the world’s largest bank in terms of assets, announced today it has begun offering three-year term deposit services via Alipay, the world’s leading open digital lifestyle platform.

26 May 2020

News/covid-19

Alipay offers boost to Covid-19-hit Wuhan merchants

Payments behemoth Alipay has set up a special section of its app to promote local merchants in Wuhan, the city where Covid-19 emerged before spreading across the world.

08 April 2020

Company announcement/payments

TransferWise targets China through Alipay partnership

Global technology company TransferWise, today announced a partnership with Alipay, the world’s leading payment and lifestyle platform, to provide its users with fast, affordable and convenient international money transfers to China.

17 March 2020