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Alipay

37 articles accelerating

Alipay has appeared in 37 articles since 2015-02. Coverage peaked in 2021Q3 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside China, WeChat, Chinese, Ant Group's.

Articles
37
mentions
Velocity
+100.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.000
velocity change
Sources
18
publications

Coverage Timeline

2026-02-01
Rest of World

Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot Ant Afu, which integrates appointments, test analysis, and insurance payments within Alipay's ecosystem

2026-01-31
Rest of World

Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot Ant Afu, which integrates appointments, test analysis, and insurance payments within Alipay's ecosystem

Ant's health chatbot has become a top downloaded app in China as users seek personalized care they can't get from the overburdened hospitals.

2024-12-25
South China Morning Post 2 related

Ant splits Alipay into the Digital Payment Business Group focused on new payment products, and the Alipay Business Group focused on user growth and monetization

Ann Cao / South China Morning Post :

2024-01-01
Bloomberg 2 related

People's Bank of China lists Ant Group's Alipay as having no controller, as Ant finished removing controlling stakeholders almost a year after Jack Ma's promise

Bloomberg :

2023-12-31
Bloomberg 2 related

People's Bank of China lists Ant Group's Alipay as having no controller, as Ant finished removing controlling stakeholders almost a year after Jack Ma's promise

Bloomberg :

2023-12-30
Bloomberg 1 related

People's Bank of China lists Ant Group's Alipay as having no controller, as Ant finished removing controlling stakeholders almost a year after Jack Ma's promise

The bank now lists Ant's Alipay as a firm without an actual controller.  —  Ma, co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. …

2023-01-16
Wall Street Journal 3 related

Ant Group partners with BNPL service Splitit to let Alipay users on AliExpress in Europe pay for items in installments, starting in Germany, Spain, and France

Wall Street Journal :

2022-10-17
South China Morning Post 2 related

Alipay has quietly started testing money transfers through WeChat in September, available for a small number of users with a maximum of ~$278 per transfer

The wall separating China's two leading mobile payment systems may have started to crack after Ant Group's Alipay rolled out a trial service …

2021-12-03
Wall Street Journal 1 related

Some citizens are skeptical of China's digital yuan, e-CNY, preferring Alipay and WeChat Pay; e-CNY has seen 150M transactions worth nearly $10B so far

Policy makers world-wide are watching to see how Beijing goes about replacing cash  —  China has convinced financial policy makers everywhere …

2021-09-13
Financial Times 12 related

Sources: Beijing wants to break up Ant Group's Alipay, which has over 1B users, and create a separate app for the company's highly profitable loans business

Chinese fintech will turn over user data to new joint venture partly owned by state  —  Beijing wants to break up Alipay …

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Quarterly Coverage

Top Sources

Narrative

TEXXR tracks 60 Techmeme articles mentioning Alipay, dating back to February 2015. The biggest stories include India bans another 188 Chinese apps, including PUBG, Baidu, and Alipay, saying widespread... and India bans another 188 Chinese apps, including PUBG, Baidu, and Alipay, saying widespread.... Frequently covered alongside WeChat, Ant Financial, Ant Group, Apple, and Ant. Coverage has shifted toward enterprise themes and away from competition, regulation.

Key Moments

2024Q4enterprise +50pts; consumer +100pts; competition +50pts
2025Q1enterprise -50pts; competition +50pts
2026Q1enterprise +40pts; consumer -40pts; competition -100pts

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