Global giant Alipay+ goes live in Sri Lanka in boost to leisure and business tourism

ANT International’s cross-border mobile payment and digitalisation solution Alipay+ yesterday went live in Sri Lanka in a landmark partnership with LankaPay — Sri Lanka’s national payment network giving a boost to leisure and business tourism in the country.

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Under the partnership over 400,000 LANKAQR merchants across Sri Lanka will be able to accept cross-border mobile payments from tourists and business travellers via 14 international e-wallets connected to Alipay+ during the first phase. Alipay+ is one of the key offerings of Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation and financial technology provider.

Ant International's cross-border mobile payment and digitalisation solution, now connects over 1.7 billion users via 36 international e-wallets and banks apps worldwide. During the initial phase, travellers from 10 countries and regions can simply scan the LANKAQR code at more than 400,000 merchants across the island to make payments, just as they are used to at home.

The Alipay+ partners enabled for crossborder payment acceptance in Sri Lanka in the first phase include: Alipay (Chinese mainland), AlipayHK (Hong Kong SAR), MPay (Macao SAR), Hipay (Mongolia), GCash (the Philippines), Changi Pay and OCBC Digital (Singapore), Touch 'n Go eWallet and MyPB by Public Bank Berhad (Malaysia), Naver Pay and Toss Pay (South Korea), TrueMoney (Thailand), BigPay (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand), and Tinaba (Italy). Of the 1.7 billion users of Alipay+, 1.3 billion is in China and balance 400,000 globally.