螞蟻金服投資泰國"支付寶" 5年或覆蓋泰國一半網民
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding's financial arm Ant Financial Services Group last Tuesday signed a strategic partnership agreement with Thai financial technology firm Ascend Money, the former aims to expand its mobile payment platform and other financial products to overseas markets.
中國電子商務巨頭阿里巴巴集團旗下的螞蟻金服集團於上週二與泰國金融科技公司Ascend Money簽署了戰略合作協議，前者旨在將其移動支付平臺和其他的金融產品擴展到海外市場。Ant Financial will make strategic investments in Ascend Money and bring its financial model of online and offline payment platforms to Thailand by providing technical and experience support, the company said in a statement.
該公司在一份聲明中表示，通過提供技術和經驗支持，螞蟻金融將對Ascend Money進行戰略投資，並將其線上和線下支付平臺的金融模式帶到泰國。
"Our goal is to replicate the Alipay model to Thailand," said Douglas Feagin, senior vice president of Ant Financial.
螞蟻金融的高級副總裁道格拉斯·費根說：“我們的目標是將支付寶模式複製到泰國。”
He said he hopes Ant Financial's services and products will reach 50 percent of the Internet users in Thailand within five years.
他表示希望螞蟻金融的服務和產品在五年內覆蓋泰國50％的網民。Details as to the amount of investment Ant Financial will make in Ascend Money were not disclosed in the company statement, but earlier media reports suggested Ant Financial would take a 20 percent stake in Ascend Money and seek an option to increase the stake to 30 percent.
雖然公司聲明中並未透露螞蟻金融向Ascend Money投資金額的細節，但早前的媒體報道稱，螞蟻金融將收購Ascend Money20％的股權，併力求將該股權增加至30％。Ant Financial has made similar moves in India and South Korea. In 2015, Ant made two rounds of investments in Indian financial technology firm Paytm, which is now said to have 150 million users. In South Korea, it has gained preliminary approval to establish an Internet bank.
螞蟻金融此前在印度和韓國也做了類似的舉動。2015年，螞蟻對印度的金融技術公司Paytm進行了兩輪投資，據說現在有1.5億用戶。在韓國，螞蟻金融參與設立的互聯網銀行也已經獲得了初步批准。The company said it had more than 200 million users globally at the end of October and aims to increase that number to 2 billion users within the next 10 years, with 60 percent of them coming from overseas markets.
該公司表示，截至10月底，其全球用戶的數量已超過2億，並且目標是在未來10年內將用戶數量增至20億，其中60％來自海外市場。
