The chief executive of Ant Financial Services Group, the payment affiliate of Alipay, is no fan of initial coin offerings (ICOs). According...
In what is seen as a blow to Alipay, Walmart inked a deal with rival Tencent Holdings to use WeChat Pay, its...
The fact that the world is changing rapidly shouldn’t come as much of a shock — though the speed and centers of...
Pushing its footprint even deeper into the Americas, Ant Financial’s Alipay — China’s leading payment provider and the primary means of online and mobile payment...
According to the U.S. Commerce Department, 2.97 million Chinese nationals visited the U.S. in 2016 (the last year for which data is available), spending...
Ant Financial’s Alipay is expanding across North America as it broadens its partnership with First Data, the companies announced Monday (March 19)....
Telenor Group announced news on Tuesday (March 13) that it made a strategic partnership with Ant Financial Services Group in which Ant...
Alipay, the payment affiliate of Alibaba, is reportedly reaping the rewards of its partnership with Motion Pay Technology, the payment company in...
In a possible deal to strengthen its delivery network in China, Alibaba reported plans to buy out Baidu and other investors in...
The retail point-of-sale (POS) terminal market is no stagnant business. While it is currently a $15 billion industry, Global Market Insights is...
Chinese tourists looking for a coffee fix in South Korea are in luck, as more than 1,000 Starbucks locations across the country...
Alipay is partnering with Israel Credit Cards (ICC, CAL) and OneBill to launch its payments service platform in Israel. Alipay currently has...
WeChat Pay, the digital payment arm of China’s Tencent, announced news on Thursday (Jan. 25) that it will open up its payments...
Call it agility. Or, in a more long-winded fashion, that nimbleness which brings together new and existing rails, melding legacy systems with...
Sales of luxury goods in China are skyrocketing — up around 20 percent from 2016 — in its sharpest growth since 2011, as Chinese...
Blackhawk Network, the financial technology company, and Alipay, the digital payment service operated by Ant Financial Services Group, have inked a partnership...
Ant Financial Services Group (which offers Alipay) said on Monday (Jan. 15) that it has garnered approval in China to issue consumer...
Alipay, the digital payment arm of Alibaba, announced Thursday (Jan.11) it had entered into a partnership with French apparel brand Lacoste that...
In 800 B.C., when people wanted to know the answer to “what’s next” about their personal futures, they flocked to Delphi and...
Following an online uproar, Chinese financial giant Ant Financial has apologized for auto-enrolling unsuspecting users of its new shopping profile service in...
Honda is teaming up with Alibaba Group Holding’s AutoNavi business to develop new services for connected cars. According to news from the Nikkei...
Alibaba Group Holding, the Chinese eCommerce giant, saw gross merchandise volume of $25.3 billion for this year’s Singles Day Global Shopping Festival,...
Marqeta, an open API card issuer, and Alipay, a third-party payment platform popular in China, have announced news of a partnership that...
Alipay announced news on Friday (Oct. 20) that it is working with JPMorgan Chase on a plan to allow Chinese consumers traveling...
Alipay, the digital payment company owned by Alibaba, China’s largest eCommerce company, has inked a partnership with Poynt, the maker of smart...
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” That ancient proverb holds true today, wherever one goes — especially if one is...
Payment services company Verifone and digital payment service Alipay, owned by China’s Alibaba, announced Tuesday (Oct. 17) they have formed a partnership that will...
The world beat a path to Scandinavia’s door this year when it came to mobile payments. Samsung Pay was the first international...
China’s Golden Week appeared to be good for Alipay, the digital payment unit of Alibaba, which saw a big uptick of in-store...
Adyen, the omnichannel payments platform based in Amsterdam, announced news on Tuesday (Oct. 3) that it is expanding its partnership with Alipay,...
Alipay, China’s leading third-party online payment solution, has partnered with Norway’s tourism promotion agency to provide better services to Chinese tourists traveling...
Didi, the Uber of China (and, in fact, the local service that gobbled up Uber China last August), has added Apple Pay...
Travel now, pay later? In this month’s PYMNTS Payments Powering Platforms Tracker, powered by WePay, Wilson Wang, director of checkout and payment...
Lifestyle brand Rebecca Minkoff has announced an expanded partnership with Alipay which will allow customers in the U.S. to pay with the payment...
With China tightening its regulations, some of the country’s largest FinTech startups are eyeing initial public offerings (IPOS) overseas. According to a...
Where in the world is Alipay? At this point, pretty much everywhere Chinese tourists might want to go, with most of Europe...
Alipay has partnered with Zapper, the fast-growing mobile payment, customer insights and digital marketing platform developed in South Africa, so Chinese tourists...
Tech giant Apple is embracing WeChat Pay, giving consumers in China more ways to pay for purchases. The WeChat Pay digital payment service is...
Those who prophesied the death of brick-and-mortar retail in favor of online alternatives may have been premature. Sure, merchants without an online...
Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group, is now available for Chinese tourists at...
In late July, PayPal and Baidu captured the world’s attention when they inked a strategic partnership that gives Baidu’s 100 million or...
Payments are the connective tissue between businesses today. And, as digital avenues find their way into every nook and cranny of a...
Alipay, the Chinese digital payment arm of Alibaba, announced news that it has teamed up with online review website Yelp to bring...
Alibaba, the Chinese eCommerce giant, and Marriott International, the hotel giant, have inked a deal Monday (August 7) to enable Chinese consumers...
Payworks, a provider of point-of-sale (POS) payment infrastructure, announced news on Thursday (Aug. 3) that its payment gateway technology will be supporting...
Viva Payments, a global, cloud-based mobile payments factory that provides secure online payment services to consumers, professionals and businesses of any size,...
Online sales have no doubt pushed today’s society into using less cash than previous generations. As we reported last week, 62 percent...
Alipay’s Cashless Cities Week is a week away, but this seven-day campaign only scratches the surface of the impact digital payments have...
While there is still much in the way of debate in the U.S. and the rest of the developed West about the...
Like a well-oiled machine, money flows through the world’s economy swiftly and, thanks to technology, seamlessly. Two companies making headlines in the...