• Let's Talk Payments, Wednesday, July 15, 2015 12:30 PM

Alipay Wallet, the mobile payments app from Alibaba’s affiliate Ant Financial Services, has incorporated many new features that will upgrade it from a mobile wallet to a payments platform. The changes represent Ant financial larger move to accelerate Alipay’s commerce presence. The new Alipay 9.0—which was formerly known as Alipay Wallet—includes a redesigned user interface as well as added functions geared to provide easy mobile access to purchase and pay for products and services from local restaurants, shops and other outlets, to obtain discount e-coupons, and share product recommendations and red envelopes with friends, among other features. The app’s user interface, available for the iOS and Android operating systems, now comes with new features divided into two main tabs: merchants and friends.

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