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BUCE discussed cooperation with Alipay

03/24/2016

On March 24, a delegation of Ant Financial Services Group (Alibaba Group affiliate) led by Bogdan Zadorozhny, Director for Alipay Business Development in Russia and CIS, visited BUCE head office.

BUCE and Ant Financial Services discussed promising areas of cooperation. In particular, the sides looked into the possibility of setting up a country pavilion of the Republic of Belarus on Tmall Global platform to promote products of Belarus’ leading manufacturers with BUCE acting as an aggregator of their offers. According to Bogdan Zadorozhny, “should such a pavilion be created, all financial transactions between Belarusian sellers and Chinese buyers will be processed by Alipay. It’s a standard procedure. This way we ensure that interests of both parties to the contract are protected”.

Public procurements may become another prospective area where BUCE and Alibaba Group could collaborate. As an operator of an E-procurement platform, BUCE could send requests for quotation from Belarusian organizations to Chinese suppliers registered at Alibaba.com. As a result, the range of participants of electronic auctions will expand considerably. Furthermore, due to competition among suppliers, procurement contracts will be concluded on more favorable terms.

In addition, there is significant potential for developing cooperation between Alibaba Group and BUCE’s electronic trading platform of industrial and consumer goods. It will be primarily focused on information exchange, which will allow Belarusian exporters to monitor bids from Chinese importers, whereas Chinese companies will be able to populate BUCE’s trading system with their offers.

All the issues raised in the course of the talks with Ant Financial Services delegation will be likely considered in more detail during the forthcoming visit of Belarus’ government delegation to China. Arkady Salikov, BUCE Chairman, will represent the exchange at the meeting with Alibaba Group management.

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