Tag: Alipay

Outgoing US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese-connected apps, including Alipay.

The Ant Technology Group's public listing was expected to be the biggest IPO ever, but now Chinese regulators have suspended the stock market debut.

All it takes to fool facial recognition software is to put on a printed mask, according to new research.

Ant Financial is continuing to make its presence felt outside of the Chinese market with the acquisition of Lazada’s payments arm HelloPay. The financial terms of the deal are undisclosed.

Chinese FinTech giant Ant Financial is acquiring US money transfer service MoneyGram in an $880m deal. Ant Financials’ core product is payments service Alipay.

Chinese mobile payments service Alipay is partnering with UK consumer insights and marketing platform Zapper.

Alibaba’s FinTech subsidiary Ant Financial is boosting its biometric capabilities through the acquisition of Kansas City-based EyeVerify.

Two of China’s biggest mobile payments players AliPay and WeChat, have won approval to operate digital wallets in Hong Kong. It’s seen as a major step towards international expansion.

Alipay, the online and mobile payments service operated by Alibaba subsidiary Ant Financial, is expanding into Europe.