Ant International, the Singapore-based affiliate of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, on Friday announced a partnership with the Women\u2019s National Basketball Association (WNBA) team New York Liberty.<\/p>\n
The multi-year initiative would see the company\u2019s Alipay+ fintech platform become an \u201cofficial sponsor\u201d and \u201cinnovation partner for sustainability\u201d of the team, to \u201cjointly support community programmes designed to advance community empowerment, environmental sustainability and youth development\u201d across New York City, the firm said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Alipay+ would support Liberty and its community in \u201curban reforestation and other conservation initiatives\u201d, such as a community project to recycle used shoes, as well as projects for \u201cyouth sports and technology training\u201d.<\/p>\n
Both parties on Thursday teamed up on the Liberty\u2019s Shoe Sorting Day, in which volunteers arranged donated sneakers for distribution to homeless students in the city and provided handwritten notes of encouragement to uplift them during challenging times.<\/p>\n
The team is owned by Alibaba Group Holding chairman and co-founder Joe Tsai and his wife, Clara Wu Tsai. Ant is an affiliate of Alibaba, which also owns the Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur partnership with Alipay+ goes beyond the game,\u201d said Keia Clarke, CEO of New York Liberty. \u201cTogether, we are investing in the future of New York \u2013 its people, its environment and its youth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ant International, the Singapore-based affiliate of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, on Friday announced a partnership with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[4629,84434,18662,436,39275,3675,99,434],"class_list":["post-358091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-alipay","tag-ant","tag-ant-international","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-payment","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}