Alibaba’s Ant Financial may have won the bidding war for MoneyGram after upping its offer to $1.2B Ifeadi C. 23:21 TechCrunch, Zero Tech Blog Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate company focused on financial services, appears to have finally won its battle with Euronet to acquire MoneyGram, the U.S.-based cross-border payments service, after it increased its bid to $1.2 billion. Read More via Zero Tech Blog Share this Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterPlus on Google+ Related PostsStax gets $2.2M for its app that lets Africans make transactions via automated USSD codesIvorian healthtech startup Susu has $1M to scale its family-centric insurance product across AfricaMicrosoft partners with VCs, accelerators to back 10,000 startups in AfricaSony and Honda reveal plans to jointly make and sell electric vehiclesLondon-based SteadyPay helps freelancers and gig workers stabilize their incomeB2B e-commerce platform Chari is acquiring the credit line of Axa Assurance in Morocco for $22M