MOSCOW: Russia’s biggest lender, Sberbank, announced on Tuesday that it has launched money transfers to Alipay wallets in China using phone numbers. State-controlled Sberbank, which has customers in 18 countries, launched the service with Western Union. For a 1% transfer fee, customers can fund an Alipay account in Chinese yuan with only the recipient’s full name and phone number. “We added one more country to Sber’s cross-border remittance geography today. I’m sure remittances to China will be sought after by our customers,” said Leonid Shnyr, Director of Payments and Transfers at Sber. Sberbank. Interbank transfers using a mobile phone number...