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Euronet Worldwide business segment epay drives European rollout of new Alipay+ payment solution with launch at drugstore chain Müller
LEAWOOD, Kan., April 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- epay, a business segment of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT), has integrated Alipay+, a suite of
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[{"type":"text","content":"LEAWOOD, Kan., April 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- epay, a business segment of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: EEFT), has integrated Alipay+, a suite of global cross-border mobile payments and marketing solutions from Ant Group that enables merchants to better serve consumers from all over the world, to support in-store cross-border mobile payments via QR and bar codes at the Müller drugstore chain in Europe. With the help of Alipay+, epay’s cash register integration solution includes access to a network of Asia’s leading digital wallets through a single connection and connects the Müller drug stores with more than one billion Alipay+ users in the Asia Pacific region. The epay solution also provides Müller with access to other popular payment methods and epay’s digital value-added services. Alipay+ integration offers significant potential for retailers With innovative technologies and solutions, Alipay+ brings an easy way to capture digital-first customers and makes it easier and more convenient for merchants to serve users of Asia's leading digital payment service providers. Especially, with the one-stop integration feature provided by Alipay+, payment services and merchants can access all existing and later-onboarded digital payment methods brought by the solution through a unified interface and standardized business rules, and without additional technical adaption. As retailers support payments through Alipay+, epay makes it more convenient for merchants to address the users of Asia’s leading digital wallets such as KakaoPay, PayPay and Gcash. At Müller, epay launched with KakaoPay through Alipay+ first and will follow with the other supported wallets. The process at Müller already started in Germany and Austria will be expanded to additional European countries and retailers in the coming months. epay will also bring Alipay+ payment services to its e-commerce solution via web and in-app connections. \"We’re happy to welcome Müller as the first retail chain in the German-speaking market to offer the Alipay+ in-store solution, which helps Müller to even better address international customers by offering them their preferred payment method,” said John Cai, Business Development Manager for Alipay in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. “Together with our partner epay, we can offer precisely the efficiency and convenience for retaile...