【英语财经】阿里巴巴重金投资印度支付平台 Alibaba invests in India with PayTM deals

Alibaba

has invested at least $500m in Indian payments start-up PayTM, in a further sign that China’s largest internet company by revenue plans to have a significant presence in India’s rapidly expanding ecommerce sector.

Yesterday’s announcement follows an earlier deal between PayTM and Ant Financial

, Alibaba’s online payments affiliate, which invested $200m for a

25 per cent stake in the Indian company as part of a two-stage deal struck in

February.

The terms of Alibaba’s investment have not been revealed, but two people familiar with the situation said that the Chinese group had originally agreed to put in an additional $375m in the second stage for a further 20 per cent stake, for a total investment of $575m between the two Chinese companies.

However, the original agreement was subsequently changed to reflect an increase in PayTM’s valuation, prompting Alibaba to increase its planned second-stage investment to more than $500m.

阿里巴巴(Alibaba)已向印度支付初创企业PayTM投资至少5亿美元，进一步表明这家中国最大的互联网公司（按收入算）希望在印度快速扩张的电子商务领域确立自己的大块地盘。

昨日作出宣布之前，PayTM与阿里巴巴旗下在线支付子公司蚂蚁金服(Ant Financial)早在今年2月就达成了一项分两阶段实施的协议，作为该协议的一部分，蚂蚁金服斥资2亿美元收购了PayTM公司25%的股份。

阿里巴巴投资的具体条款尚未披露，但两名知情人士称，阿里巴巴起初同意在第二阶段额外增加3.75亿美元的投资以再购得PayTM公司20%的股份，使阿里巴巴与蚂蚁金服的总投资达到5.75亿美元。

然而，为了反映PayTM的估值上升，最初的协议随后被修改，使得阿里巴巴将计划中的第二阶段投资增至超过5亿美元。

译者/陈隆祥