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Oct 30, 2026
Rigoberto TiglaoNARRATOR
Chinese companies have internationalized their technology, with Filipino tourists in Hong Kong amazed that even street vendors accept GC-ASH and Maya payments.
Rigoberto TiglaoNARRATOR
In October 2025, Ant International said Alipay Plus connected about 1.8 billion user accounts through 40 partner payment services across acceptance markets exceeding 100 countries and regions.
Rigoberto TiglaoNARRATOR
This reach is not the same as 1.8 billion direct Alipay users.
Rigoberto TiglaoNARRATOR
In February 2026, Reuters reported talks concerning potential interoperability between India's UPI and Alipay Plus, potentially opening the second biggest market in the world to the Chinese firm.
Aarish ShahHOST
At early stage, it's up 11% quarter on quarter with $4.23 billion.
Aarish ShahHOST
But Ant International's $1.2 billion Series A was over a quarter of the total.
Aarish ShahHOST
The real distinction here is not fintech versus AI.
Aarish ShahHOST
And we all know that all companies now are putting AI into their infrastructure at the very least, if not into their products at pace.
Theodora LauHOST
And also, it's been fascinating to watch, for example, what's been going on in APAC as well.
Theodora LauHOST
So Ant International, I believe they recently launched their own agentic commerce stack, Sip to Nuts Clothes System, and they also have a warranty.
Theodora LauHOST
that backs the payments that's being made by their agents as long as it stays within those stack.
Theodora LauHOST
So yeah, another variable, right? Or another type of development, if you will, looking around the world and how we're all tackling similar challenges.
Rigoberto TiglaoNARRATOR
More knowledgeable people, of course, were aware that the giant Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi has provided much financial muscle for GCH since 2004, when the firm was set up.
Rigoberto TiglaoNARRATOR
However, what the Ayala's appear to have kept from public knowledge is the entry in 2017 of the Chinese companies of Alipay-slash-Jack Ma-linked firms, Ant International Technologies, Advance New Technologies and AI Vision Investment.
Rigoberto TiglaoNARRATOR
In all of Mint's reports and even in its IPO prospectus, these firms' nationality was reported as Singaporean, since the laws of that island state allow any registered firm to be identified as Singaporean.
Rigoberto TiglaoNARRATOR
Ayala's 2024 integrated report estimated its total economic interest in Mint at 17%, through Globe Capital Ventures, which is wholly owned by Globe Telecom, and AM50 Ventures, half-owned by Ayala Corporation and the Japanese Mitsubishi Corporation however, Globe Telecom is not entirely owned by the Ayalas.
Rigoberto TiglaoNARRATOR
ASP is a wholly owned firm of the New York-based Bow Wave Capital.
Rigoberto TiglaoNARRATOR
A January 2021 report by Global Venturing described Bow Wave as Alibaba-affiliated and said its mandate was to invest in Ant Group and Alibaba Partners and portfolio companies.
Rigoberto TiglaoNARRATOR
US SEC filings identify two Bo Wave-managed funds named BWANTLP and BWANT International LP.
Rigoberto TiglaoNARRATOR
If Bo Wave's 6% stake in Mint is in reality held by investment funds of Ant International, the Chinese technology conglomerate's shares in Mint would be 38%, just a bit less than the Ayala's 40%.
DariusHOST
Providers verify the voucher, deliver the service, and can combine vouchers to redeem later.
DariusHOST
The launch follows pilots with Cloudflare, Coinbase, Base, Ant International, Aisa, BVNK, and Hype, and Mastercard says it's still a pilot with no date for general availability.
DariusHOST
In the demo, marketing agency Hype gave an agent a defined budget to plan a protein bar launch campaign, and the agent paid Aisa for social media research and Cloudflare AI Gateway for campaign images without a separate billing setup for each.
DariusHOST
For agencies, this points to agents that buy data and tools per task instead of needing an API key and prepaid credits for every service.
David PerronHOST
Foreign exchange forecasting provides a useful example of the distance between a model benchmark and a bank outcome.
David PerronHOST
Ant International's release names Barclays Barks NetFX and Standard Chartered ScaleFX among applications of its forecasting technology.
David PerronHOST
HIPAY's analysis of the associated leaderboard reports Falcon first among 35 entries labeled pre-trained, but tenth among 122 entries with sufficient data for scoring on its normalized error measure.
David PerronHOST
The technical paper also identifies a limitation concerning conditioning on additional variables.
Kevin BrocklandHOST
It is a product of Kuaishou, which is Chinese.
Kevin BrocklandHOST
Ant International, a $1.2 billion round this year at a $10 billion valuation.
Kevin BrocklandHOST
Ant International is the overseas arm of Ant Group.
Kevin BrocklandHOST
And when you look at who actually put the money into the round, it was Ant Group and Alibaba.
Kevin BrocklandHOST
So a Chine pa-- Chinese parent wrote a billion-dollar check to its own Singapore subsidiary, and we booked it as Southeast Asian venture funding and put it in the record, uh, quarter.
TessNARRATOR
From T plus one to real-time liquidity management.
TessNARRATOR
Ant International puts tokenized deposits to work.
TessNARRATOR
As a global digital payment, digitization and financial technology company, Ant International needs liquidity to move across currencies and continents at the speed of digital commerce rather than according to local banking hours.
TessNARRATOR
Working with BNP Paribas, the company has successfully piloted a scalable tokenized deposit framework designed for production deployment, reducing reliance on pre-funding and opening the way towards real-time liquidity, FX, and investment.
TessNARRATOR
Digital commerce may operate continuously, but the financial infrastructure beneath it often does not.
TessNARRATOR
cross-border transfers still tend to settle on a T plus one basis and in some corridors can take longer, leaving global payment businesses to bridge the gap with pre-funded balances, liquidity buffers, and additional FX risk.
TessNARRATOR
For Ant International, which supports e-commerce, cross-border payments, and international trade customers across multiple continents, that mismatch has become increasingly difficult to ignore.
TessNARRATOR
Funds may need to move between Europe and Asia, across several currencies and outside conventional banking hours.