Ant International’s Antom eyes more merchants here with its integrated services

It taps home-grown firm to offer SMEs ‘one-stop shop’ for digitalisation, payments

- Sheila Chiang Business Correspondent

Ant International’s Antom is tapping homegrown point-of-sale solutions company Epos to accelerate its expansion into the merchant markets of Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries.

It is planning to roll out Epos’ services in Malaysia first.

Ant International acquired Epos, which serves more than 6,000 merchants in Singapore, in May for an undisclosed sum.

The merchant payment and digitalisation services provider sees an opportunity to provide a one-stop shop for merchants, especially those in the retail, and food and beverage sectors.

Epos will roll out a one-stop app later in 2025 to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) start, grow and scale their businesses by providing access to services such as marketing, banking and payments.

Speaking to The Straits Times at Ant International's headquarters in Guoco Midtown, Antom’s general manager Gary Liu said: “Epos will be the vehicle that we use to continue to penetrate the Singapore market. Previously, they had only the software-as-a-service component. We will add the payments, banking and lending as part of that, penetrate the existing customer base and continue to expand.”