Ant International wins two titles at IBSi GFIA 2025

By Vriti Gothi

Ant International has secured two category wins in the 7th edition of IBS Intelligence’s Global FinTech Innovation Awards 2025, earning recognition for its work in Liquidity & Cash Management as well as Risk & Compliance Management.

The UK-based research firm IBS Intelligence, known for its global FinTech rankings, evaluated innovation-driven technology deployments across more than 50 countries. The awards aim to spotlight solutions that advance operational efficiency, automation and intelligent financial services an area of increasing priority for financial institutions navigating volatile markets and rising compliance demands.

Ant International was recognised in the Liquidity & Cash Management category for its Falcon Time-Series Transformer (TST) AI Model, a transformer-architecture big data system comprising up to 8.5 billion parameters. Designed to forecast liquidity and market risk patterns at hourly to weekly intervals, the model has reportedly achieved accuracy rates above 90%. Ant International said the improved precision has reduced its FX hedging costs by up to 60% and lowered working capital requirements by up to 50%. The company has also begun deploying Falcon externally, starting with AirAsia in the travel sector.

In the Risk & Compliance Management category, Ant International received the award for its proprietary transformer-based risk model. The system analyses large volumes of heterogeneous data to detect emerging risks by applying attention-mechanism-powered deep learning an approach intended to replace manual modelling and accelerate the identification of relevant signals within complex datasets.

The dual wins highlight Ant International’s long-term strategy to embed advanced AI across its operational and customer-facing platforms. Headquartered in Singapore, the company operates across more than 30 global offices and provides cross-border payments, commerce and financial services through four business units: Alipay+, Antom, Bettr and WorldFirst. The group supports over 150 million merchants worldwide, connects 1.8 billion mobile payment users via Alipay+, integrates more than 300 payment methods through Antom, and has served 1.2 million SMEs through WorldFirst. Bettr, its credit technology offering, has helped extend credit access to more than 30 million customers.

The awards reflect the growing expectations for FinTech players to deliver scalable AI-led infrastructure as financial institutions prioritise resilience, compliance automation and data-driven decision-making in an increasingly complex operating environment.