Yahoo Finance Euronet (EEFT) epay Boosts Europe Presence Via Alipay+ Combo
Euronet Worldwide, Inc. EEFT recently announced that the company has integrated Ant Group’s cross-border payments and marketing solutions suite Alipay+ with its epay unit. The move is targeted to support in-store payments at the Müller drugstore chain in Europe.
The move is expected to provide epay with access to Asia’s leading digital wallets network. It will also link more than 1 billion users of Alipay+ in the Asia Pacific with the Müller drugstore chain. Digital value-added services of epay and other popular payment methods will be accessible to Müller. The prudent move is likely to enhance the footprint of all the participating companies in the vast Asian market.
The integration of Alipay+ with EEFT’s epay segment is expected to boost efficiency, adaptability and the use of digital payment methods for merchants. It will help the merchants to connect with multiple digital wallets in Asia like PayPay, KakaoPay, Gcash and others. The epay is using KakaoPay at Müller, with other wallets soon to follow. Euronet expects the process, which began in Germany and Austria, to soon reach other European countries in the next few months.
In epay, some of the most significant product distribution expansions were enabled by mobile wallets. It launched the Microsoft XBOX Subscriptions service with Telefonica Spain and Microsoft Office 365 distribution through fnac.com France, in addition to enhancing other digital channel distributions.
The integration of Alipay+ will add to EEFT’s epay segment global capabilities. The unit contributed 33.7% to the company’s top line in 2021. The segment’s revenues improved 21% year over year last year, supported by higher transactions, expansion of digital media products and SaaS solutions. It is likely to continue performing well on the back of robust online and in-app sales of digital media products as well as the surging retail sales of the same product category. The segment is well poised for growth owing to increased transactions in Germany, Brazil and Asia.
Price Performance
Euronet shares have declined 12% in the past year against the 3.5% increase of the industry.
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