Singapore, January 13, 2026 — Ant International supported more than 2 billion digital cross-border transactions in 2025, reinforcing its role in advancing inclusive digital finance across emerging markets, including Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. The company now serves over 150 million merchants globally, 90% of which are SMEs, by expanding access to payments, financing, digital banking, and cross-border connectivity.
At the core of this growth is Alipay+, which connects more than 1.8 billion user accounts from 40 international payment partners to merchants across over 100 markets, making it the world’s largest cross-border mobile payment public-private partnership. Through collaborations with 11 national QR networks and Mastercard, users of AlipayHK, GCash, and Kakao Pay can now tap to pay via NFC worldwide.
Ant International continues to invest in AI-powered fintech innovation to deliver measurable impact. In 2025, it open-sourced its Falcon Time-Series Transformer (TST) model, enabling partners such as AirAsia to reduce FX hedging costs by up to 40%. Its SHIELD 3-in-1 risk management model achieved 95% precision in identifying high-risk transactions while improving payment success rates by up to 13.5%.
Merchant solutions under Antom reduced payment integration time by as much as 95%, while WorldFirst expanded into Thailand, offering SMEs a unified global digital account across more than 200 markets. Bettr also expanded credit access to over 30 million SMEs and individuals, including new growth across Latin America.
In Southeast Asia, Ant International continues to power leading super apps such as GCash, DANA, TrueMoney, and TNG Digital, driving tourism spending, cross-border trade, and SME growth. Notably, ASEAN travelers spent up to 2.7 times more through interoperable QR payments, directly benefiting local businesses.
Ant International reaffirmed its commitment to building trusted, secure, and scalable AI-driven financial infrastructure, enabling shared and sustainable growth across fast-growing digital economies worldwide.
