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Overview: What Is Airwallex?

Airwallex is a multinational financial technology company founded in 2015 in Melbourne, Australia, and now dual-headquartered in Singapore and San Francisco. The company’s platform provides global payments through its application programming interface (API) and proprietary financial infrastructure, with services including business accounts, expense cards, and payroll. With a valuation of US$6.2 billion as of May 2025, Airwallex has raised $1.2 billion in total funding from investors including Tencent and Sequoia. It processes over $130 billion in annual payment volume and serves more than 150,000 customers worldwide.

For Christian business owners and faith-based organizations evaluating their payment processor, the central question isn’t just about rates or features — it’s about whether Airwallex shares Christian, pro-life values. The evidence gathered here tells a clear story.

The Founders and C-Suite of Airwallex

Airwallex was co-founded by five entrepreneurs who met at the University of Melbourne. Understanding who leads the company matters for Christians seeking values alignment.

Jack Zhang – Co-Founder and CEO. Born in Qingdao, China, Zhang moved to Australia at 15 and previously held banking roles at ANZ and National Australia Bank. He is now based in New York and Hong Kong.
Lucy Liu – Co-Founder and President. Liu invested $1 million to bootstrap the company and leads global strategy and expansion. She recently launched a Women’s Circle across APAC in partnership with Vogue Business China.
Jacob (Xijing) Dai – Co-Founder and CTO. Dai leads the company’s technology stack and platform development.
Max Li – Co-Founder, Head of Design. Li co-invested in the original coffee shop business that inspired Airwallex.
Ki-Lok Wong – Co-Founder and Principal Architect.
Kai Wu – Chief Revenue Officer and GM, APAC.

None of Airwallex’s founders or executives have made public statements supporting pro-life, Christian, or traditional-values positions. No record of pro-life charitable giving, faith-based leadership principles, or Christian organizational affiliations was found in the company’s public disclosures or executive profiles.

Airwallex’s Stance on Abortion

Airwallex has not made any public statement opposing abortion. There is no evidence the company has ever donated to pro-life organizations, partnered with pregnancy resource centers, or taken any position affirming the sanctity of unborn life.

In contrast, Airwallex explicitly offers transgender healthcare benefits to its U.S. employees, and its health plan is managed through progressive-leaning providers. The company’s broader HR posture, DEI commitments, and health benefits structure are consistent with the same corporate culture found at companies that routinely cover abortion travel costs for employees following the Dobbs decision. While Airwallex has not been publicly reported as explicitly covering abortion travel, its alignment with that corporate ethos — through the same diversity infrastructure, progressive benefit structure, and LGBTQ health coverage — places it firmly outside the pro-life camp.

For a Christian business owner, using Airwallex means your transaction fees flow to a company that funds a corporate culture diametrically opposed to the sanctity of life. Pro-Life Payments, by contrast, donates 15% of its revenue to organizations protecting the unborn — turning every swipe into a pro-life act.

Airwallex’s LGBTQ Stance

Airwallex is an active, publicly celebrated participant in the LGBTQ+ corporate movement. In 2024, Airwallex was featured in Innovate Finance’s Pride in FinTech Powerlist — an industry recognition specifically honoring LGBTQ+ leaders and organizations advancing diversity and inclusion in financial services. This is not a passive acknowledgment — being named to this list signals an active corporate commitment to LGBTQ+ advocacy within the company.

Airwallex’s U.S. employee benefits explicitly include transgender healthcare benefits, listed among its standard compensation offerings through its HR partner Sequoia One. This means a portion of the fees your business pays to Airwallex funds an infrastructure that provides gender transition benefits to employees — a practice in direct conflict with the Christian understanding of biological sex as God-given and immutable.

The company’s EMEA team runs a formal DEI program that includes celebrating Pride Month with a “diversity calendar” and a “Culture Champs” group specifically tasked with sparking LGBTQ+ discussions across the organization. This is a structural, institution-wide LGBTQ+ commitment — not merely a legal compliance effort.

Airwallex’s DEI Agenda

Airwallex has embedded DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) into nearly every layer of its operations — not as a standalone program, but as a structural organizational value. The company’s official DEI statement says it is “proud to have a diverse employee base representing more than 38 nationalities” and frames inclusivity as central to “innovation” and company culture.

In its EMEA region, Airwallex developed a formal DEI framework built on three pillars: Inclusive Talent Management, Inclusive Culture, and Inclusive Leadership. This framework actively works to remove “bias” from hiring processes through diversity-tracking in the recruitment funnel — which often means prioritizing race, gender, and sexual orientation in hiring decisions over merit and qualification alone.

Airwallex’s equal opportunity employer statement specifically declares the company does not consider “color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status” in hiring. While non-discrimination is a legal standard, the active structural DEI apparatus at Airwallex goes well beyond compliance — it signals an ideological commitment to progressive social values that most Christians would recognize as contrary to a biblical worldview.

Airwallex’s Transgender Stance

Airwallex’s inclusion of transgender healthcare benefits in its U.S. employee benefits package is one of the clearest signals of its cultural alignment. This benefit covers medical procedures associated with gender transition — an ideological stance that directly contradicts the Christian belief that God creates human beings male and female (Genesis 1:27) and that this biological reality is not subject to surgical or pharmaceutical alteration.

The company’s DEI program also specifically highlights neurodiversity and a host of identity-based initiatives through its “wellbeing weeks” and monthly events. The LGBTQ advocacy embedded in these programs — which are funded, at least in part, by the processing fees businesses pay to Airwallex — means that choosing Airwallex is not a neutral financial decision for a Christian business owner. It is a financial endorsement of a transgender-affirming corporate culture.

Airwallex’s Philanthropy: What Does It Support?

In late 2024, Airwallex launched Airwallex Impact, a global social impact initiative through which the company committed to the “Pledge 1%” movement — pledging 1% of equity, employee time, profits, and products to philanthropic causes. The company has been recognized as a “Company of Good” by Singapore’s National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre.

While the concept of corporate giving sounds admirable, the direction of that giving matters enormously. Airwallex’s philanthropic footprint has focused on economic empowerment, inclusion, and sustainable futures — language that consistently signals alignment with the ESG and progressive corporate values movement. Co-founder Lucy Liu stated the company is committed to “building a more inclusive and sustainable future through purposeful business practices” in line with “inclusive” social initiatives.

There is no record of Airwallex directing charitable donations to pregnancy resource centers, pro-life organizations, Christian ministries, or any cause that affirms the sanctity of human life from conception. Its philanthropic model is fully secular and progressive in orientation.

The answer is no. Based on thorough research into Airwallex’s corporate policies, leadership, DEI commitments, employee benefits, and philanthropic giving, the company does not share Christian, pro-life values. Specifically:

Issue	Airwallex’s Position	Christian / Pro-Life Standard
Abortion	No pro-life stance; benefits structure aligned with abortion-cover culture	Opposes abortion; supports unborn life
LGBTQ+	Featured in Pride in FinTech Powerlist; active LGBTQ+ programs	Marriage between man and woman; biological sex as God-given
Transgender	Offers transgender healthcare benefits to employees	Opposes gender transition; affirms biological sex
DEI	Structural DEI embedded company-wide; diversity calendar, DEI committees	Hiring based on merit and qualification
Philanthropy	Focuses on “inclusion,” “sustainability,” ESG causes	Directs giving to pro-life and Christian causes

The Christian Alternative to Airwallex: Pro-Life Payments

For Christian business owners who have been using Airwallex — or who are evaluating it as a payment processor — there is a faith-aligned alternative: Pro-Life Payments.

Pro-Life Payments is a Christian and Catholic credit card processing and merchant services company that donates 15% of its revenue to organizations protecting the unborn. Founded by Jared Huffman, Pro-Life Payments offers the same competitive processing capabilities businesses have come to expect from mainstream processors — without the baggage of funding a corporate culture that opposes Christian values.

Every business processing $100,000 per month through Pro-Life Payments generates approximately $150 in net processing fees for Pro-Life Payments — of which 15%, or roughly $22.50 per month, flows directly to pro-life organizations. Over a year, that’s $270 in automatic pro-life giving generated simply by switching your payment processor. Multiply that across a community of Christian businesses, and the impact is extraordinary.

Pro-Life Payments offers:

Competitive rates comparable to Stripe, PayPal, and Square
E-commerce, omni-channel, retail, restaurant, and mobile payment processing
Donation management tools for churches and nonprofits
Month-to-month contracts with no early termination fees
Next-day or same-day funding
Free equipment rentals

For Christian businesses ready to align their payment processing with their faith and values, visit Pro-Life Payments or call 1-844-781-6070.