Ant Group expands AI financial tools for SMEs globally, cutting integration time and boosting payments via new Singapore-based initiatives.

Ant Group Chairman Eric Jing unveiled plans at the 2025 Singapore FinTech Festival to expand AI-driven financial tools for small and medium-sized enterprises, introducing "agentic" AI systems that act as virtual CFOs and COOs. Antom Copilot, a tool for merchants, cuts payment integration time by over 90% and improves chargeback resolution, while EPOS360 offers a unified platform for payments, banking, lending, and growth. Collaborating with Singapore’s MAS through Project Guardian and PathFin.ai, Ant Group advances tokenized money, real-time cross-border settlements, and AI forecasting, supported by regulatory sandboxes to ensure secure, scalable innovation. Ant International, based in Singapore since 2024, now serves over 150 million merchants and connects to 1.8 billion consumer accounts globally.