Ant expands AI-powered product portfolio

Focus is helping small enterprises

- SUCHIT LEESA-NGUANSUK

Ant International, a Singapore-based global digital payments and financial technology provider, is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered portfolio of financial and commerce solutions.

The move aims to drive inclusive, sustainable growth by enhancing access to payments, credit, digital banking and cross-border connectivity across fast-growing yet fragmented digital economies.

Ant International supported more than 2 billion digital cross-border transactions in 2025 for merchants in its core emerging markets, including Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

The company serves more than 150 million merchants worldwide, 90% of which are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The company sees Thailand as a “centrepiece” for its cross-border strategy due to its status as a leading tourist destination, said Douglas Feagin, president of Ant International.

“In the world’s fastest growing emerging markets, real-world, trusted and scalable adoption of AI and other new technologies can unlock entirely new growth opportunities for large and small businesses,” he said.

“It is time for fintech innovators to convert access into real growth momentum. We will work even harder to put AI-powered digital payments, financing, commerce and cross-border solutions on the ground for entrepreneurs and communities with ever lower costs and ever stronger safety and security guardrails.”