Worldline Announces the Integration of Alipay+ into Its Global Portfolio

Worldline, the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, announced the integration of Alipay+ into its global portfolio. Through the collaboration, Worldline enhance its payment offering for in-store and E-Commerce merchants across Europe, helping them to better serve customers through expanded mobile payments and other digital payment methods. Worldline is the first acquirer to enter into a full-scale multi-country integration with Alipay+.

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Launched in 2020, Alipay+ is a suite of global cross-border digital payments and marketing solutions operated by Ant Group. It supports a wide range of digital payments methods, including e-wallets and bank apps.

With a rollout expected to start in 2022, the enhanced payments solution works with all Worldline terminals and applications, and provides the same QR code for each new digital payment method. This brings ease of use to merchants as no change is required in merchants' operations and the payment method recognition works fully automatically. Merchants also benefit from increased customer relations as online shoppers and travelers from Asia will experience a familiar, secure, seamless and entirely automated payment flow.

Merchants from all sectors, including retail, F&B and hospitality across Europe, can simply reap the benefits by upgrading the fully integrated POS and e-Commerce solution from Worldline to enable Alipay+ acceptance, through effortless software updates with no additional investment.

Vincent Roland, Managing Director Merchant Services at Worldline said: "We are very happy to extend our partnership with Ant Group which has been a trusted partner for several years. We are particularly proud to be the first acquirer to form this partnership in Europe with such a globally recognised and respected brand."

Angel Zhao, President of Ant Group's International Business Group said: "Worldline and Ant Group are longstanding and trusted partners. Therefore, we know Worldline's expertise will make a fundamental contribution to our mission of enabling European companies to reach, target and sell to global consumers, enabling payments, promotions and digital services with a simple POS & E-Commerce integration."

The integration is also part of Worldline's ongoing efforts to reinforce its long-lasting global partnership with Ant Group. Worldline and Ant Group have been engaged in a partnership since 2016.