Alipay Plus
"Alipay+ revealed three trends impacting tourism in 2025 and beyond. Alipay+ has expanded its payments ecosystem in three ways: Growing cross-border payment acceptance for Alipay+ to more than 100 markets, and expanding its partner ecosystem to 40, representing 1.8 billion users; supporting Bluecode (Europe), PayPay (Japan) and KBank (Thailand) users to pay with their banking and wallet apps when traveling abroad..."
Tech in Asia
"Alipay has launched an AI agent payment feature now available on Luckin Coffee’s app and Alipay mini-program in China. The update allows users to order and pay for coffee through a single conversation with Luckin’s AI assistant, Lucky AI, without needing to switch to a separate payment page. This marks the first time in China that an AI agent handles both ordering and payment within one conversational interface, according to Alipay."
Business Wire
"Alipay+ enables the world’s first successful e-wallet payment transaction on Meizu StarV Snap smart glasses via AlipayHK. The new feature expands use case scenarios for the AR glasses industry leader and creates new growth avenues for e-wallets and merchants. This adds to Alipay+’s payment innovation power suite, including Model Context Protocol (MCP)-powered AI payments and NFC-based integration of QR and card payments, among others."
Retail Technology Innovation Hub
"Alipay Tap!, a QR code-based contactless payment and customer engagement solution introduced by Alipay in China in June 2024, has picked up over 100 million users within an 11 month period. The Alipay Tap! solution now supports over 300 scenarios, including ordering food at restaurants, vending machines, power bank rentals, and customer membership and loyalty programs."
AASTOCKS
"Alipay, in collaboration with the ModelScope, launched the "Payment MCP Server" service in mainland China. This enables AI developers to tap Alipay’s payment services using natural language, allowing rapid implementation of payment functions within AI agents.The MCP is a standardized protocol designed for large-scale language models (LLMs) to interact with external data sources."
Business Wire
"Whale Cloud, a technology company providing software and services for multiple industries, and Alipay+, announced that they will extend their partnership bringing together Whale Cloud’s software and technical expertise in the telecommunications sector with Alipay+’s diverse e-wallet and digitalisation technology solutions based on Alipay+ Wallet Tech, to provide businesses with solutions for launching their own next-generation mobile apps."
Reuters
"American Express and Alipay said all global American Express card members can now link their cards to the Alipay digital wallet, enabling payments at tens of millions of merchants across mainland China."
KrASIA
"With its market share shrinking, Alipay is banking on the tap-to-pay feature to reignite growth."
Statista
"Alipay was available as a payment check-out option on 11,000 more websites from China than on websites that originated from the United States."
China Daily
"Alipay has expanded the nation's payment services market, with its new product — Alipay Tap! — recently becoming available in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. With the service, which was introduced by Ant Group's payment arm in July, users can make payments simply by keeping the phone screen unlocked and then tapping their smartphones against the cash register."
Coolest Gadgets
"Alipay is the most popular online and mobile payment service in China. It handles over 100 million transactions every day and has more than 800 million active users each month. Its main product is the Alipay Wallet, which comes with a mobile app that allows users to make payments directly from their phones."
Business Wire
"Alipay+, Ant International’s cross-border mobile payment and digitalization solution, revealed three trends shaping the future of tourism to the benefit of global merchants and the industry: 1) Travelers prefer their home payment methods to the benefits of merchants abroad; 2) Travelers spend more, with a shift toward localized experiences; 3) All-in-one payment apps are reshaping travel habits"
Business Wire
Alipay now supports 16 languages on its App, further enhancing the travel experience of international tourists exploring China. These languages include Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, Malay, Indonesian, Thai, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese.
Retail Insight Network
"Online payment platform Alipay has devised a creative way of making fiscal responsibility more appealing and even entertaining. The Chinese payment platform launched a savings service known as “Little Purse” that encourages consumers to save money."
Yahoo News
"Startup Stripe and China's Alipay have struck a deal to allow Chinese buyers to pay for purchases on the U.S. service, in a rare agreement between a Western payments service and the Alibaba affiliate."
Business Wire
"Alipay+ continued its global summer campaign, which was kicked off by UEFA EURO 2024, in preparation for the travel industry's full rebound by the end of 2024."
AsiaTechDaily
"Alipay is introducing the Tap! function to streamline in-store payments for users in major Chinese cities. To use it, users need to enable NFC on their phones, keep the screen unlocked, and simply tap their phone against the merchant’s USB add-on at the cash register to complete the transaction."
The Straits Times
"Ant International, which is headquartered here, has cast its net wider to reach more users with the addition of six new international e-wallets in Singapore."
Asia Financial
"China has announced tough rules for non-banking payment institutions amid an ongoing clampdown on the country’s $57 trillion financial sector."
Business Wire
"Citcon, an all-in-one payment service provider, announces its strategic partnership with Alipay+ to enable international e-wallet payments for retail merchants across the United States."
Business Wire
As part of Ant Group’s “Asian Para Games Support Initiative,” Alipay has enhanced four accessible payment features to allow entering payment amount using voice input, audio playback of payment amount, voiceprint payment and payment verification by drawing a pattern.
Tech Wire Asia
"Alipay...What started as a third-party mobile and online payment platform in China, soon became one of the most used payment apps in the world today. Alipay+ is widely accepted in destinations including the Chinese mainland, Macao, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, and South Korea."
PR Newswire
"With the resumption of travel and tourism to China in full swing, Mastercard and Alipay, China's leading digital open platform under Ant Group, today announced the launch of a new payments option that provides international arrivals to China with another simple and secure way to go cashless when visiting the country."
Business Wire
"Alipay today announced to launch a new feature for iPhone customers with the latest version of Alipay app to quickly add Alipay to their Apple ID and complete payment authorization one-stop within the app."
Fintech Singapore
"Alipay+ has partnered with Singapore’s leading payment services group, Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS), to integrate with SGQR, the world’s first unified payment QR code. The SGQR integration will make the Alipay+ suite of digital payment solutions available at approximately 11,000 stalls across Singapore, including hawker centres, HDB coffee shops, wet markets, and JTC industrial canteens."
Businesswire
"Popular Asian e-wallets are helping iQIYI, a leading international streaming platform, accelerate its expansion through Alipay+ to help digital and entertainment (D&E) platforms reach young middle-class consumers looking for quality online video content."
Businesswire
Alipay+ has further strengthened its partnership with Asia’s largest food delivery platform, foodpanda, to Malaysia. Through this partnership, foodpanda Malaysia’s customers can now enjoy convenient food and grocery deliveries by paying through Touch ’n Go eWallet, one of the leading mobile wallets in Malaysia.
Businesswire
Alipay+, a provider of global cross-border digital payment and marketing solutions announced today that, through Alipay+, Macao merchants are offering lucrative incentives inside AlipayHK – one of the most popular e-wallets in Hong Kong – to attract travelers and boost local consumption as inter-city travels are expected to soon recovered to pre-pandemic levels.
Businesswire
"Alipay+, a provider of global cross-border digital payment and marketing solutions, is striving to provide cash-free and mobile-friendly travel experiences for Asian tourists in the Chinese mainland, as it seeks to partner with more merchants and enable greater QR code connectivity. Starting from January 8, AlipayHK users can pay for metro rides in Shenzhen using their local app to enhance a seamless travel experience for Hong Kong visitors in the mainland. The service is enabled through joint efforts between Alipay+ and the city’s subway operator, following a similar payment system integration with bus operators in major cities across Guangdong province."
Back End News
“Alipay+, the provider of global cross-border digital payments and marketing solutions, has rolled out its first year-end promotion campaign with merchants across Asia and Europe, in collaboration with five Asian e-wallet partners: AlipayHK (Hong Kong SAR, China), GCash (Philippines), Kakao Pay (South Korea), TrueMoney (Thailand) and Touch ‘n Go eWallet (Malaysia). The promotion campaign is participated in by over one million merchants in retail, F&B, tourist attractions, and hospitality across major travel destinations where Alipay+ is accepted, including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and various countries in Europe.”
