Ant International Logged Over 2 Billion Cross-Border Payments Last Year

Summary

Ant International processed more than 2 billion cross‑border transactions in 2025, primarily serving SMBs in fast‑growing regions such as Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Latin America via its Alipay+ and Antom platforms. The episode highlights how the unified Alipay+ wallet gateway is expanding beyond payments to become a super‑app ecosystem, integrating local mobile wallets like Indonesia’s DANA and Thailand’s TrueMoney, and outlines Ant’s strategy to broaden its reach in emerging markets. It also discusses the persistent challenges of international payments—high fees, low visibility, slow settlement—and how Ant’s blockchain and a recent HSBC partnership to pilot tokenized Swift transfers aim to address these inefficiencies.