Ant International, a leading global digital payment and financial technology provider headquartered in Singapore, has been intensifying its integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance and secure millions of daily cross-border transactions for merchants across over 200 global markets.
“Integration of Artificial Intelligence into the processing of cross-border transactions is of critical importance to further strengthening global trade and commerce, especially for SMEs
who up to now can’t afford real-time global settlement services. In deploying Artificial Intelligence in merchant services, enhanced fraud detection and prevention against new scamming schemes like deepfaking is as important, if not more important, as increasing
operational efficiency,” says Yang Peng, Chief Executive Officer of Ant International.
AI-powered FX model to reduce costs
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Ant International can now predict currency exchange rates not only on a daily or weekly basis but also on an hourly scale. This advanced Artificial Intelligence model, developed over several years, enables precise forecasts for both inbound and outbound transactions, helping merchants reduce transaction costs and allowing them to allocate more resources toward business growth.
The new Artificial Intelligence-powered FX model has the capacity to consolidate hundreds of existing models into a single, more accurate system. However, relying heavily on one model to process millions of daily transactions also introduces risks. “We have safeguards in place to ensure human intervention if discrepancies arise between the new and old
models. We avoid having blind faith in Artificial Intelligence, maintaining checks to uphold accuracy, ” says Mr. Yang.
Artificial Intelligence-powered e-KYC to combat deepfake
Advancements in generative Artificial Intelligence, particularly deepfake technologies, are posing significant security challenges for financial institutions, as these sophisticated forgeries are increasingly difficult for humans to detect. To counteract Artificial Intelligence-assisted cyberattacks,Ant International has developed an anti-deepfake electronic Know Your Customer (e-KYC) tool over two years. This tool has an interception success rate exceeding 99%,according to Mr. Yang.
New partnerships during SFF
OCBC and Ant International signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to focus on achieving 24/7 real-time transactions between Singapore and Malaysia, via Ant International’s Whale platform using Artificial Intelligence and innovations to improve the efficiency and transparency.
PayPay, Japan’s top QR payment operator, announced an expanded partnership with
Alipay+, Ant International’s cross-border mobile payment and digitalization technology
solution, broadening its merchant coverage network across Japan to provide foreign
tourists their preferred payment services via domestic e-wallets.
