Ant International’s Alipay+, a global payment gateway connecting 150 million merchants and two billion consumer accounts, has announced a rollout of cross-border mobile payment services across Latin America through a new collaboration with PVS, a regional specialist in customised payment solutions.
The partnership grants users of Alipay+’s network, encompassing 50 e-wallets and banking apps alongside more than 10 national QR schemes, the ability to complete QR-based payments at PVS merchant locations.
Initial coverage spans Chile and Argentina, with further market expansion planned.
By integrating once through a single connection, merchants of all sizes can accept local-currency payments with minimal friction from prominent wallet and banking applications across Asia and Europe. Businesses will also gain access to cross-border digital marketing tools, with Alipay+ set to introduce additional AI-powered travel features across its ecosystem.
Ant International itself processes an average of over 20 million transactions per day and operates as a global provider of digital payments, digitisation, and financial technology. Its services span financial institutions and merchants across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, covering everything from payment and account services to embedded finance, treasury management and AI-driven financial innovation.
The partnership also complements Alipay+’s existing NFC capability, which allows cross-border tap-to-pay transactions via a Mastercard tie-up. Users of AlipayHK, GCash and Kakao Pay can already make NFC payments at over 150 million Mastercard-enabled merchant locations worldwide, including in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.
More broadly, Ant International is building out its Latin American footprint by deepening ties with payment service providers, FinTech companies and digital platforms to extend cross-border payment and credit services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and individual consumers. This includes a collaboration with R2, a Mexico-headquartered embedded lending infrastructure firm, to broaden SME financing across the region.
PVS CEO Lucio Colunga said, “At PVS, we are proud to partner with Alipay+ to offer Asian and European travellers visiting Latin America a payment experience that is familiar, secure and transparent, through the wallets they already know and trust. This partnership also reinforces our commitment to connecting local businesses with international consumers, helping merchants capture new growth opportunities across the region.”
Alipay+ Ant International general manager for North Asia and the Americas Weixiao Jiang said, “This landmark partnership builds on Ant International’s technology capabilities, risk solutions and marketing tools with PVS’s deep local expertise, fast-growing networks and regulatory know-how. We are deeply committed to expanding public and private partnerships to contribute to the regional digitalization and AI agendas.”
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