Singaporean fintech acquires Alipay partner
(26 January 2016 – Singapore) Singapore based fintech, MC Payment announced that is has acquired a controlling stake in Genesis Payment Solutions.
Genesis is a Singaporean payments company that is licensed by Alipay to acquire merchants for the Chinese online payments provider. It also helps businesses adopt payment methods by Global Payment Asia Pacific, Wirecard Singapore, and American Express.
MC Payment chief investment officer David Wang said: “Chinese outbound tourists to the Asia-Pacific region have been growing at 26 percent the past seven years, with yearly expenditure at US$45 billion.”
“This is a great partnership for MC Payment to grow our payment solution products and aggressively target new merchants.”
Genesis will continue as a standalone company. Its founder and managing director Jong Kim Poh. MC Payment will integrate its technology into its acquisition and grow the latter’s business in its markets in Southeast Asia and Australia.
Through the deal, MC Payment gains access to Genesis’ clients and its merchant-acquiring license with Alipay.
MC Payment will continue to look for acquisition opportunities in the region to access more clients and work with more payment providers.
Genesis, founded in Singapore in 2014, claims to have signed on more than 50 merchants for Alipay over the last three months and deployed more than 100 units of Alipay payment terminals, processing over 300 Alipay transactions. Its clients include Singaporean businesses like Metro department stores, Sincere Watch, City Tour, Batam Fast Ferry, and more.
Wang says Genesis has been growing at a double-digit rate every month, but does not share any numbers. He also doesn’t disclose any figures on MC Payment’s recent traction.
According to MC Payment, it offers many payment products in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Australia. In August 2016 the firm raised a series B round worth S$9.5 (A$8.84 million).
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