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  • AI-based FX model able to predict hourly currency exchange rates
  • Anti-deepfake technology has detection success rate over 99%

November 12, 2024, Singapore – Ant International, a leading global digital payment and financial technology provider headquartered in Singapore, has been intensifying its integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance and secure millions of daily cross-border transactions for merchants across over 200 global markets.

“Integration of AI into the processing of cross-border transactions is of critical importance to further strengthening global trade and commerce, especially for SMEs who up to now can’t afford real-time global settlement services. In deploying AI in merchant services, enhanced fraud detection and prevention against new scamming schemes like deepfaking is as important, if not more important, as increasing operational efficiency,” says Yang Peng, Chief Executive Officer of Ant International.

AI-powered FX model to reduce costs

Leveraging AI, Ant International can now predict currency exchange rates not only on a daily or weekly basis but also on an hourly scale. This advanced AI model, developed over several years, enables precise forecasts for both inbound and outbound transactions, helping merchants reduce transaction costs and allowing them to allocate more resources toward business growth.

The new AI-powered FX model has the capacity to consolidate hundreds of existing models into a single, more accurate system. However, relying heavily on one model to process millions of daily transactions also introduces risks. “We have safeguards in place to ensure human intervention if discrepancies arise between the new and old models. We avoid having blind faith in AI, maintaining checks to uphold accuracy, ” says Mr. Yang.

AI-powered e-KYC to combat deepfake

Advancements in generative AI, particularly deepfake technologies, are posing significant security challenges for financial institutions, as these sophisticated forgeries are increasingly difficult for humans to detect. To counteract AI-assisted cyberattacks, Ant International has developed an anti-deepfake electronic Know Your Customer (e-KYC) tool over two years. This tool has an interception success rate exceeding 99%, according to Mr. Yang.

New partnerships during SFF

OCBC and Ant International signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to focus on achieving 24/7 real-time transactions between Singapore and Malaysia, via Ant International’s Whale platform using AI and innovations to improve the efficiency and transparency.

PayPay, Japan’s top QR payment operator, announced an expanded partnership with Alipay+, Ant International’s cross-border mobile payment and digitalization technology solution, broadening its merchant coverage network across Japan to provide foreign tourists their preferred payment services via domestic e-wallets.#

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