Embedded-finance provider tracked in the Embedded Finance Index — disclosed by 9 companies across 2 categories.
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Founded in 2004 as a simple escrow payment service for Alibaba's Taobao marketplace, Alipay rapidly evolved into China's dominant mobile payments super-app, adding wealth management (Yu'e Bao), lending (via MYbank), insurance, and credit scoring under the Ant Financial (now Ant Group) umbrella. The international expansion pivot from ~2019 onward created Alipay+ as a network aggregating Asian digital wallets (AlipayHK, GCash, TrueMoney, DANA, KakaoPay, etc.) and connecting them to global merchants — effectively building a cross-border acquiring layer. A regulatory crackdown by Chinese authorities in 2020–2021 halted the planned IPO and forced a structural reset, reducing Ant Group's financial leverage activities and placing greater regulatory oversight on the platform.
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<img src="https://www.embeddedfinanceindex.com/api/badge/alipay/install" width="1" height="1" alt="" style="display:none">9 companies are linked to Alipay in the Embedded Finance Index 2026, through their own public disclosures or Alipay's published customer list, including Ant Financial, Ant Group, Alibaba, Airbnb, MoMo, Toka, Fiuu, BillEase and Singapore Changi Airport.
Alipay is an embedded-finance provider in PSP and FX / Payouts. It ranks #52 of 528 PSP providers by linked companies.
The most-named PSP alternatives to Alipay are Stripe (782 buyers), Adyen (317 buyers), PayPal (153 buyers), Checkout.com (114 buyers), worldpay (88 buyers) and Mollie (63 buyers).
Alipay was founded by Jack Ma and is founded in 2004, headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Alipay has raised $4.5B in total.
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