Ant Financial, the financial services affiliate of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, said it has bought London-based payment and money transfer company WorldFirst. Ant Financial’s latest international acquisition comes after the company, which owns China’s biggest payment service Alipay, failed to buy U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram last year because U.S. regulators raised security concerns...
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