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Ant International deepens its Indonesia bet: 300,000-merchant DOKU becomes 'DOKU by Antom'
Antom, Ant International's arm for shop payments, deepened its undisclosed stake in DOKU, which lets Indonesian shops take cards and e-wallets. Co-founder Himelda Renuat becomes CEO; DOKU keeps its six Bank Indonesia licences.
Can an AI agent pay from a GCash wallet? Ant just open-sourced the protocol
Ant International published its Agentic Mobile Protocol on GitHub, letting a user authorise an agent to spend inside set limits and halving the steps to link an agent to a wallet. Ten wallets and seven acquirers are in.
Brazil now demands a licence to move money in, so Ant International went and got one
Brazil's central bank authorised the Singapore-headquartered payments group as a payment institution, extending a network that clears over 20 million transactions a day across 150 million merchants.
Agents plan the trip, then stop at the wallet: 26% would let AI pay, Alipay+ finds
Across 6,000 consumers in nine markets, 81.3 percent use AI tools to plan travel while 26 percent would let AI decide a payment. Privacy at 43 percent and a wish for human control at 32 percent explain the gap.
Alpha research starts running itself: Princeton and Ant Group's AQuA holds a 2.50 Sharpe out of sample
The six-agent framework discovers trading factors and builds intraday equity models on its own, lifting per-stock information coefficient to 0.0843 against a GRU baseline's 0.0613 and returning positive across 2021 to 2025.
Whose customer is the tourist? Alipay+ plugs foreign wallets into the Philippines' QR Ph rails
Travellers can now pay Philippine merchants from their home-market wallets over the national QR standard. QR Ph volume rose more than thirteenfold during 2025, and digital payments carried 64.69% of retail transaction volume.
Agents will grade your storefront before customers do: Vercel's free audit runs 118 checks
Vercel launched Is Agentic, a free tool scoring how well AI agents discover, access, understand and pay on a public website. The methodology comes from Ora and weights usability at 40 points, access 30, discovery 20 and payments 10.
The SME treasury desk is the prize: BOCHK wires into Ant's 2 billion Alipay+ accounts
Bank of China (Hong Kong) and Singapore's Ant International agreed to connect on cross-border payments, treasury and SME services, drawing on Alipay+, WorldFirst's coverage of 220 markets and Ant's Bettr tokenisation platform.
Who pays when the agent buys? Alipay opens agentic commerce to KFC, Luckin and Mixue
Alipay opened a full-stack agentic commerce platform letting merchants convert pages, products and workflows into agent skills and MCP tools. Its Ah Bao agent already reaches 10,000 services, five phone brands and 16 automakers.
An AI writes the answer, a doctor signs it: Ant's AQ workstation reaches 300,000 physicians
Ant Group turned its Haodf physician platform into AQ for Doctor, an AI workstation across 16 specialties backed by 60 million publications and 140,000 drug labels, with specialists reviewing every AI answer before patients see it.
Credit arrives where the intention already lives: Bettr embeds Shariah Umrah financing inside Muslim Pro
Bettr, the embedded finance platform under Singapore's Ant International, launched Umrah financing for Malaysian users inside Muslim Pro, an app with over 190 million downloads. The Tawarruq structure runs 12 to 24 month tenures.
A pilgrimage now comes on a 24-month plan: Ant International's Bettr lands in Malaysia
Bettr, the embedded-finance arm of Singapore's Ant International, will fund Umrah packages over 12 to 24 months inside Muslim Pro, an app with more than 190 million downloads, with Shariah compliance routed through SEDANIA's AS-SIDQ.
A billion Weixin wallets can now pay a Hanoi noodle shop: NAPAS links the QR rails
Vietnam's national payment switch connected VietQRGlobal to Weixin Pay with BIDV settling, reaching more than a billion Chinese users. It is the third China rail NAPAS has opened in 2026, after UnionPay and Alipay.
The year's biggest SEA cheque isn't a startup's: Singapore's Ant International closes a $1.2B Series A
The Alipay+ and Antom parent, backed by Ant Group and Alibaba, will fund cross-border-payment and agentic-commerce expansion across four business lines reaching 150 million merchants and two billion accounts.
Ant International opens Kuala Lumpur global centre, seeding 1,500 fintech jobs
The Alipay+ operator's new TRX development centre will staff 1,500 fintech roles, more than half technical and about half filled by recent Malaysian graduates.
StraitsX secures MAS payment licences and launches the XUSD stablecoin
The Singapore firm received Major Payment Institution licences from MAS and added a US-dollar stablecoin to its Singapore-dollar XSGD and Indonesian-rupiah XIDR, with rails already settling Grab and Alipay+ payments in production.
Microsoft routes OpenAI models to China's tech giants through Singapore Azure
ByteDance, Tencent, Ant Group and Meituan now reach OpenAI's GPT models through Azure regions in Singapore and Hong Kong, since Microsoft will not host them on mainland soil. ByteDance alone is on track to spend over US$1 billion a year.