蚂蚁金服超5亿金额收购印度支付公司One97 25%股权
[*]据路透社，蚂蚁金服就收购印度支付服务提供商One97 Communications公司25%股份达成协议。两家公司没有透露协议金额，但据消息人士称，金额超过5亿美元。
[*]One97经营的在线平台Paytm可让用户购物或支付水电费等，类似于蚂蚁金服的支付宝。One97计划利用这些资金发展移动支付业务和扩大服务规模。Paytm用户数约为2300万。
[*]这是蚂蚁金服首次投资印度市场，这次收购对One97的估值超过20亿美元，使该公司成为印度最有价值的新创公司之一，但无法与Flipkart的110亿的估值相比。
[*]MUMBAI/SHANGHAI Thu Feb 5, 2015 5:44am EST
MUMBAI/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Ant Financial Services Group, an affiliate of China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N), has agreed to buy 25 percent of Indian payment services provider One97 Communications, tapping into the country's smartphone and online industry boom.The companies did not provide the value of the deal, but a person with knowledge of the matter called the investment a precursor to One97 listing on the stock exchange, and said the stake was worth more than $500 million.
The deal values One97 at more than $2 billion, making it one of the most-valuable start ups in the country. One97 runs Paytm, an online platform through which users can shop or pay utility bills, whereas Ant runs Paytm's Chinese peer Alipay.
Alibaba spokeswoman Teresa Li and One97 founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma declined to disclose the value. Sharma told Reuters that Ant would buy new shares in his company.
Paytm has benefited from the spread of affordable handsets and internet connectivity which has turned India into the fastest-growing smartphone market in the Asia-Pacific region, according to researcher IDC.
"This partnership between Ant Financial Services Group and Paytm will foster the growth of India's digital payment ecosystem," the companies said in a joint statement on Thursday.
Ant, investing in an Indian company for the first time, will provide Paytm "with strategic and technical support for its business", the companies said.
Last month, people close to the deal told Reuters a 30 percent to 40 percent stake would be worth $550 million. One97 plans to use the proceeds to grow its mobile payment business and increase the scale of its services, they said.
"With over one billion people, India's payments market has vast untapped potential," Ant Vice President Cyril Han said in the statement.
Paytm has about 23 million users, the companies said. The $2 billion valuation of operator One97 compares with the $11 billion of Flipkart Online Services Pvt Ltd (IPO-FLPK.N), India's biggest e-commerce company.
Citigroup and Goldman Sachs advised One97 on the deal.
(Reporting by Nivedita Bhattacharjee, Devidutta Tripathy in MUMBAI, John Ruwitch in SHANGHAI and Denny Thomas in HONG KONG; Editing by Miral Fahmy and Christopher Cushing)
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