Lagos and San Francisco-based fintech startup ‘Flutterwave’, has partnered with Alibaba – a Chinese leading e-commerce company to boost digital payments between China and Africa.
The Flutterwave/AliPay connection is probably the biggest thing to ever happen to African tech if we understand the full implication.
China is in play guys. Over One BILLION users are in play. I have always said, don’t build for Africa…..alone! 😂
— Victor Asemota (@asemota) July 29, 2019
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Flutterwave has just partnered with Alipay. There is a high probability that you'll be able to pay your Chinese import agents directly with your naira.
— Young Fellanthrophist 🇿🇦🇨🇦 (@Honcho_Honips) July 30, 2019
Flutterwave is a Nigerian based B2B payments platform that grants African companies access to send out payments to other firms across the globe. Alibaba launched Alipay in 2013. The platform is a digital wallet with over 1 billion active users.
Alibaba will leverage this partnership with Flutterwave to capture payments activities between Africa and China. A market whose volume has been estimated at $200 Billion. The partnership will also grant Flutterwave merchants access Alibaba’s 1 billion users.
Flutterwave in a statement said, “We’ve set out to provide the complete payment solution for Africans to thrive in the global economy. The complete payment solution would first require interconnectivity within Africa, then connectivity from Africa to the world”.
Flutterwave is famous in fostering cross-border payments across African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda. This helps bolster seamless payments amongst the companies resident in these countries.
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