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India plans AI-agent registry for UPI payments

NPCI is developing a registry to verify and monitor AI agents making transactions over India’s UPI as part of a planned Unified Agentic Protocol.

Ant International initiates Agentic Mobile Protocol globally; aligns with Mastercard, Visa on ‘Know-Your-Agent’ standards

Ant International, Mastercard, and Visa will collaborate on common "Know-Your-Agent" standards to verify the AI agents that make payments, as the three payment groups push to let autonomous software transact across their networks.

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Ant International, Mastercard and Visa develop KYA framework

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa are developing common checks for identifying and monitoring AI agents across payment networks.

Philippines SEC clears Mynt’s proposed GCASH IPO

The Philippine SEC cleared Mynt's proposed GCash IPO of up to PHP 92.32 billion, subject to remaining requirements and final offer terms.

Singapore-based Ant International gets Brazil payment-institution licence

Singapore’s Ant International has received a payment-institution license from Brazil's central bank, expanding its regulated presence in the country's payments market.

Alipay+ connects to QR Ph for cross-border payments in the Philippines

PPMI and Alipay+ have connected Alipay+ to QR Ph, allowing supported international e-wallet and banking-app users to pay Philippine merchants through existing QR Ph codes.

Ant Bank, Bettr join Hong Kong regulators’ GenAI sandbox to test AI liquidity forecasting

Hong Kong-based digital bank, Ant Bank, and its embedded-finance provider, Bettr, both under Singapore's Ant International, were selected for the liquidity-risk management track of Hong Kong regulators' GenA.I. Sandbox++.

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Hong Kong selects 36 agentic AI pilots for financial sandbox

Hong Kong regulators selected 36 agentic AI use cases from nearly 100 proposals for controlled trials across banking and other financial sectors.

Hong Kong’s BOCHK, Singapore’s Ant International partner on cross-border payments, treasury, SME services

Bank of China (Hong Kong), or BOCHK, and Singapore-based Ant International will jointly develop cross-border payments, treasury management, and financial services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME).

Barclays, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered adopt Ant International’s FalconTST AI model 2.0

Barclays, Citi, Deutsche Bank, and Standard Chartered have integrated the Falcon Time-Series Transformer (TST), a forecasting AI model built by Singapore-based Ant International, into their foreign-exchange systems.