蚂蚁金服8.8亿美元收购美国汇款服务公司速汇金

Ant Financial, the digital payments arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is buying US-based MoneyGram for $880m (700m pounds).

电子商务巨头阿里巴巴的数字支付部门蚂蚁金服日前以8.80亿美元（折合7亿英镑）的价格收购了美国的速汇金。

MoneyGram has about 350,000 outlets in nearly 200 countries. Ant Financial has more than 630 million users.

速汇金在近200个国家拥有约35万家分店。蚂蚁金服则拥有超过6.3亿名用户。

The takeover by the Chinese group will need regulatory approval from the US Committee on Foreign Investment.

这笔由中国企业的收购还需美国外国投资委员会的监管批准。