Alipay’s push into Western banks’ turf kicks off in Hong Kong


  • TECH
  • Friday, 25 May 2018

Signs for Ant Financial Services Group's Alipay, an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., center top and center bottom, and Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s WeChat Pay, right, are displayed at a Takeya Co. Ueno Select shop in Tokyo, Japan, on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. Ant Financial and its strategic partners outside China should be able to nearly double users of their payments systems in coming years, Ant's overseas operations president Douglas Feagin said on Nov. 14. Photographer: Shiho Fukada/Bloomberg

Alipay’s azure blue logos began appearing two years ago in Hong Kong’s airport, greeting travellers from China who rely on the popular payments app back home. 

In recent months, taxis got them. Now stores and boutiques have them. 

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