Ant Financial Adds Local Life And Social Networking Features To Alipay 9.0 Update

Alibaba’s financial and payment affiliate Ant Financial rolled out a new version of its Alipay app for iOS and Android in what the company called—the most revolutionary update in the past 12 years.

In addition to a shift from orange to blue color scheme for the new logo, the app will combine two former independent brands “Alipay” and “Alipay Wallet” into one. The new update touches more aspects of consumers’ daily lives and some of the new features are as follows:

1. Local Life

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