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The new head of Ant Financial’s international operations hopes to one day offer its Alipay ewallet services to European consumers, after signing deals on Tuesday with four financial groups that will allow its 450m Chinese customers to pay for more goods in the region. 蚂蚁金服(Ant Financial)国际业务新任主管表示，希望有一天能够为欧洲消费者提供其支付宝(Alipay)电子钱包服务。他在周二与四家金融集团签署了协议，令蚂蚁金服的4.5亿中国客户能够在欧洲为更多商品付款。 “120m Chinese travellers went abroad in 2017 and that’s growing at 18 per cent a year. The vast majority of whom use Alipay,” Doug Feagin told the Financial Times after signing deals with BNP Paribas in France, Barclays in the UK, UniCredit in Italy and SIX Group in Switzerland. 在与法国巴黎银行(BNP Paribas)、英国巴克莱银行(Barclays)、意大利裕信银行(UniCredit)及瑞士证券交易所集团(SIX Group)签署协议之后，道格拉斯.费根(Douglas Feagin)向英国《金融时报》表示：“2017年中国出境游客有1.2亿，而且该数字一年增长18%。这些人绝大多数是支付宝用户。” | 
