Antom Copilot applies AI to help merchants implement and orchestrate payment methods while enhancing payment success rates. Ant International connects 1.7 billion consumer accounts of 36 digital wallets, mainly in Asia, to 90 million merchants online and offline globally. 700 million of these accounts are from the fast-growing, mobile-native Asia region, outside of China. In February, the company opened its first Middle East office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. According to Feagin, Ant International is deepening its services in Asia and expanding fast into the Middle East, Latin America and other markets. \”Our strategy is to work with all of the different GenAI companies, ChatGPT or Gemini or DeepSeek, we are open,\” said Feagin. \”Every market has its own fintech players and regulatory context,\” he said. \”What we focus on is more to use our expertise to build the AI application layer, so AI is now the engine behind the connection between merchants, customers and the financial institutions,\” he added.