Ant International supported over 2 billion cross-border transactions in 2025, expanding AI-powered payments and commerce tools.
Ant International said it supported more than 2 billion digital cross-border transactions in 2025 for merchants in its core emerging markets, spanning Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. The company positioned the milestone as part of a broader push to improve access in fast-growing but fragmented digital economies.
The company served more than 150 million merchants globally, of which 90% are SMEs. Alipay+ connected more than 1.8 billion user accounts across 40 international payment partners to merchants in more than 100 markets, extending acceptance for QR, mobile, and card payments through Alipay+ and Antom.
On financing, Ant International said Bettr expanded credit services for more than 30 million SMEs and individuals. It also highlighted a focus on deploying what it described as trusted financial AI, including open-sourcing its Falcon Time-Series Transformer model in 2025.
Product updates across Ant International helped clients cut payment integration time by as much as 95%, while Antom Payment Orchestration provided one-integration access to improve payment success rates.
The company said WorldFirst has evolved into a broader digital account service across more than 200 markets, highlighting its SHIELD risk model, which achieved 95% precision in identifying high-risk transactions.
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