支付寶進駐香港，開啓首個非人民幣支付系統

Alibaba’s mobile payment platform Alipay has announced the launch of an app in Hong Kong that will handle mobile payments in HK dollars.
阿里巴巴的移動支付平臺支付寶宣佈在香港推出一款可以用港元進行移動支付的應用軟件。

“Introducing local currency mobile payments to Hong Kong is an important step forward in Ant Financial’s mission to bring our services to more users in more markets,” the media quoted Douglas Feagin, president of global business as saying.
“螞蟻金服的宗旨就是爲更多市場上的更多用戶提供服務，而在香港引入本地貨幣移動支付服務就是其實現目標的重要一步，”媒體援引其全球業務總裁道格拉斯·費金的話報道。

While the standard Alipay app is supported in 120,000 retail locations across 70 overseas markets, until now all transactions had been executed in yuan.
雖然標準版的支付寶應用軟件可以在70多個海外市場的120,000個零售點使用，然而直到現在所有的交易都是以人民幣進行支付的。

The effort marks big step towards goal of widening currency options.
這一成果標誌着支付寶在拓寬貨幣選擇這一目標上又邁進了一大步。