Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Ant Financial and ICBC deepen strategic collaboration
As part of a comprehensive strategic partnership unveiled in December 2019, Ant Financial and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) announced a collaboration that will enable merchants to collect payments via Alipay or the ICBC e-banking app without the need for users to replace their existing payment collection quick response codes.
The feature has been launched in pilot cities, including Hangzhou, Chongqing and Guangzhou, and will be rolled out in more cities. ICBC is the first state-owned bank to work with Alipay to enable this feature.
With the common aim of leveraging technology to make financial services more convenient and inclusive for merchants and consumers, Alipay and ICBC began collaborating as early as March 2005 to offer online payment services to users.
Ant Financial and ICBC will continue to work together to deepen ongoing cooperation in financial technology (fintech). To better support the real economy, Ant Financial is committed to strengthening key technologies and accelerating the innovation of financial products through digital technology.
Ant Financial announced an Internet Booster plan in 2015 to support the digital transformation of traditional financial institutions by sharing Alipay’s technological capabilities. This is alongside its move to open up its payment services to a wide range of online and offline businesses.
Ant Financial has been collaborating with banks since the birth of Alipay in 2004, and has since partnered with over 200 banking institutions.
Re-disseminated by The Asian Banker
