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Company announcement/payments

Ant International, Grab, and StraitsX debut cross-border stablecoin payment system,

StraitsX, the pioneering payments infrastructure for the digital assets space in Southeast Asia, has announced the official go-live of its groundbreaking initiative with Ant International and Grab.

05 November 2024

News/wholesale

Standard Chartered and Ant International use blockchain for settlement of treasury transactions

Standard Chartered has used Ant Internal's Whale blockchain platform to deliver settlement of HKD-denominated intra-group transactions between various ANT entitites.

30 October 2024

News/payments

HSBC and Ant International laud results of blockchain-based tokenized deposit transfers

HSBC and Ant International have completed HKD-denominated cross-bank blockchain-based test transactions under the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Ensemble Sandbox.

28 October 2024

Company announcement/payments

Network International signs MoU with Ant International

Network International (Network), a leading enabler of digital commerce in the Middle East and Africa (MEA), and leading global digital payment and financial technology provider Ant International, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to extend innovative digital payment solutions to businesses in the Middle East and Africa, driving digital transformation and financial inclusion in the region.

28 October 2024

Company announcement/payments

Himalayan Bank and Ant expand Alipay+ acceptance in Nepal

Alipay+, the cross-border mobile payment and digitalisation solutions operated by Ant International, has enabled more than 10 additional payment partners to be accepted in Nepal by collaborating with local acquiring partner Himalayan Bank.

26 September 2024

Company announcement/payments

Tottenham Hotspur sign Ant International on three-year deal

Tottenham Hotspur has announced a new three-year strategic partnership with Ant International, a digital payment and financial technology leader.

16 September 2024

Company announcement/payments

Ant Group sees 300% rise in international users adopting mobile payment in China in 2024

Ant Group today announced the number of international visitors who have used its mobile payment services in China quadrupled over the past six months, following the launch of the International Consumer Friendly Zones program in March that has now expanded to 70 Chinese cities.

05 September 2024

News/ai

Ant Group launches AI-powered 'life assistant' app

Ant Group has launched a new 'life assistant' app, Zhixiaobao, connecting users to a multitude of AI-agents trained for shopping, fitness and language learning.

05 September 2024

News/ai

BIS field study show AI use can boost productivity among programmers

A Bank for International Settlements' field study on AI use by Ant Group programmers demontrated a clear boost in the number of lines of code produced by staff exposed to the Large Language Model.

05 September 2024

Company announcement/retail

Ant International makes headway in Brazil with Dock partnership

Ant International, a digital payment and financial technology leader, today announced its strategic initiative to provide AI-driven credit technology solutions designed to empower local partners and advance financial inclusions in Brazil.

02 September 2024

Company announcement/payments

GSBN to trial Bill of Lading tokenisation in Hong Kong

Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), a neutral, not-for-profit consortium enabling paperless, accessible and sustainable growth in global trade with its data infrastructure and ecosystem of partners, has officially joined the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s (HKMA) Project Ensemble to test its electronic Bill of Lading (eBL) tokenisation use case with Ant Digital Technologies and conduct interbank atomic settlement of tokenised deposits between the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) and Hang Seng Bank (Hang Seng).

28 August 2024

Company announcement/payments

Ant International and Ant Digital Technologies joins HKMA’s Project Ensemble sandbox

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) today announced the launch of the Project Ensemble Sandbox (the Sandbox) and introduced four main themes of tokenization use cases.

28 August 2024