Heavy!Alipay China changes coaches!The new "head" was a programmer ...

Recently, it is reported that the legal representative and chairman of Alipay (China) Network Technology Co., Ltd. will change from Jing Xiandong to Ni Xingjun. People familiar with the matter revealed that Alipay has submitted a change application to the industrial and commercial department and was approved smoothly. Alipay responded to this that this is the normal corporate governance measure of Alipay, which is in line with the actual situation of the company's operation.

Alipay (China) Network Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 2004. It is the main body of Alipay payment licenses. The registered place is in Shanghai. Technical developers account for more than 50%. This payment technology company opens payment technology for merchant institutions and provides billing services. At present, 80 million merchants and 1 billion consumers have been served.

According to public information, Ni Xingjun joined Alibaba in 2003. He is the core member of Alipay's founding team and an early version of Alipay. He has successively implemented the implementation and implementation of major business strategies such as programmer, product architecture, industry product technology, and executive deputy squad leader of Alipay, and has participated in the planning of Alipay's various generations of technical architecture.

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In early 2007, Jing Xiandong officially joined Alibaba, and successively served as senior director, vice president, and other positions, and was mainly responsible for managing finance and operation. Later, due to business adjustments, Jing Xiandong joined Alipay as chief financial officer. In 2014, after the establishment of Ant Financial Services Group, Jing Xiandong successively served as the chief operating officer and president of Ant Financial. In 2016, on the second anniversary of the establishment of Ant Financial, Jing Xiandong took the relay stick of Ant Financial CEO from Peng Lei's hands.

The reporter noticed that Alibaba had disclosed the annual report of the 2022 Finance that the management of Ant Group no longer served as Alibaba partners. Except for some members who had previously announced their retirement, relevant members from the management of Ant Group include Jing Xiandong and Ni Xingjun. Zeng Songbai, Peng Yijie, etc. no longer serve as Alibaba partners.

(List of Alibaba Partner List Source: Alibaba Group 2022 Financial Annual Report)

In addition to the payment business, not long ago, Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd., the main company of the Alipay Internet sector (Alipay APP), also changed the director of the director and supervisor.

At present, the Alipay APP is active on the APP of 1.1 million digital service providers. The service provider helps merchants to operate digital operations through the products and interfaces provided by the Alipay open platform. Public information shows that the size of the merchant's applet in the Alipay App has exceeded 3 million. At the "2022 Alipay Partner Conference" hosted by Alipay on July 21, the first display model of Alipay merchants was displayed for the first time. In the next year, Alipay will invest 10 billion capital resources to support the digitalization of merchants.

Industry people believe that, with the settlement of the new management of the two main companies, the business model of payment technology and digital interconnection "two Alipay" may be clearer.

Reporter | Tu Yinghao

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