The Bank begins with Tinkoff cooperation with the Chinese payment Alipay online system

On January 22, 2019 it became known that Tinkoff Bank begins cooperation with the Chinese payment Alipay online system specializing in service of the Chinese users. An opportunity to accept payments through Alipay will appear at several thousand clients of the acquiring platform of Tinkoff at once in the nearest future.

The existing acquiring network Tinkoff Banka substantially covers places, popular with the Chinese tourists, in Russia. It is, first of all, Moscow and the cities of Golden Ring, St. Petersburg, Irkutsk and Lake Baikal, Vladivostok and other cities of the Far East.

We constantly improve possibilities of our acquiring Tinkoff platform therefore decided to give to our clients one more tool for payment acceptance which will allow them to expand target audience from among the Chinese tourists for sales of goods and services. We see that the Alipay payment system enjoys the increasing popularity in Russia on a measure growth of number of tourists from China, and are aimed at long-term strategic partnership. Sergey Khromov, chief of the department of payments and transfers of Tinkoff of Bank

At us with Tinkoff Bank the huge potential for interaction development – both organizations pay special attention to development of innovations and approaches to financial services. The sense of payment acceptance of Alipay for outlet is not limited to a money transfer method from the buyer to the seller. It is first of all the marketing platform using which it is possible, using available tools in a system, to receive additional traffic in the shops from mobile application which hundreds of millions Chinese many times in day in the daily mode use. Bogdan Zadorozhny, the development director of Alipay in Russia and the CIS countries