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Ant Group today launched its AI healthcare app, AQ, to accelerate the company’s entry into the healthcare sector. The app helps users manage their daily healthcare needs with over 100 AI-powered services, including doctor recommendations, medical report analysis, and personalized medical advice. It also connects users to digital services from over 5,000 hospitals and nearly 1 million doctors across China.

Ant Group today unveiled Plan A, a new recruitment initiative to attract top artificial intelligence researchers, reinforcing its commitment to accelerating AI research and development under the “AI First” corporate strategy.

Ant Group has announced major upgrades to its comprehensive suite of AI solutions for the healthcare sector, aiming to enhance the capabilities of hospitals and doctors, and collaboratively benefit users through advanced AI innovations.

In their first full year of partnership in 2024, Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PayNet) and Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation and financial technology provider, brought new economic opportunities to Malaysian SMEs, with Alipay+ making up more than 80 percent of cross-border inbound QR payments via DuitNow. In the peak travel season in December 2024, the partnership enabled 6 times growth in revenue for Malaysian merchants, compared to the same period in 2023.

Ant Group has been recognized for the fourth consecutive year as one of the Top 100 Global Innovators 2025 by Clarivate, a global leader in providing transformative intelligence, identifies and ranks organizations leading the world in technology research and innovation. This recognition reaffirms Ant Group's ongoing commitment to excellence in innovation, particularly in AI and other critical digital technologies.

In 2024, leading insurers in China processed 7.25 million health claims through Ant Insurance, Ant Group's online insurance brokerage platform, marking a 55% year-over-year increase. Total health claim payouts on the platform reached RMB 9.2 billion (USD 1.3 billion). This growth is driven by ongoing innovations in product offerings and user experience, which build trust and meet user needs, while also reflecting the increasing demand for health insurance services.

Ant Group today announced the extension of its successful partnership with Qinwen Zheng, the rising tennis legend and Olympic gold medalist. This renewed collaboration underscores the shared commitment to striving for excellence, while inspiring and engaging young people together.

Ant Group and Nike China have signed an MOU to strengthen their partnership. Nike will use Ant Cloud Customer Service Solution to enhance its e-commerce operations in China, improve customer service efficiency, and enhance sustainability performance.

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, Alipay Ant Forest and IUCN are launching a campaign on biodiversity and climate action. The campaign, hosted on the Alipay Ant Forest digital platform, aims to inspire over 100 million people to take green actions in support of a sustainable and biodiverse planet.

Ant Group today unveiled its AI financial manager, Maxiaocai, at the 2024 INCLUSION·Conference on the Bund in Shanghai. The AI personal financial manager can be accessed via the Alipay app and the Ant Fortune app. The launch of Maxiaocai follows the introduction of the company’s AI life assistant, Zhixiaobao, and AI Healthcare Manager at the event, highlighting Ant Group's latest progress in applying AI technology in consumer-facing use cases.

Ant Group today announced the number of international visitors who have used its mobile payment services in China quadrupled over the past six months, following the launch of the International Consumer Friendly Zones program in March that has now expanded to 70 Chinese cities.

Ant Group today unveiled SecretFlow Cloud, its cloud-based cryptographic computing platform, and a suite of cryptographic computing solutions tailored for large language models (LLMs) at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.

Ant Group and Mastercard, along with 12 overseas payment partners of Alipay+ and other major international card organizations, have extended the International Consumer Friendly Zones program to major Western Chinese cities of Chengdu and Chongqing, as inbound travel to the region rises driven by continued growth of international tourism and trade.

Ant Group (or “the Company”) today released its 2023 Sustainability Report, showcasing the Company’s significant progress since the introduction of its ESG strategy in 2022 and demonstrating its commitment to transparency and to its sustainable business practices.

Ant Group and Mastercard, along with 12 overseas payment partners of Alipay+ and other major international card organizations, have launched the International Consumer Friendly Zones program in Shanghai, expanding the partnership aimed at enhancing the travel experience for global travelers and stimulating growth for local businesses in China.

Ant Group, along with 11 overseas payment partners of Alipay+ and major international card organizations, launched in Beijing a nationwide Program to build International Consumer Friendly Zones across major Chinese tourist and commercial cities, with the support of relevant authorities and local governments. Working with local merchants, tourism sites and commercial districts, the Program aims to enhance international visitors' experience and drive business for local merchants.

For the third consecutive year, Ant Group, a global digital technology provider, has been recognized as a Top 100 Global Innovator™ 2024 by Clarivate™, a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world. This recognition reaffirms Ant Group's ongoing commitment to innovation excellence in technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain.

In 2023, China's leading insurers recorded claim payouts totaling RMB 23.1 billion (USD 3.22 billion) on Ant Insurance, Ant Group’s leading online insurance brokerage platform in China, housed in the Alipay digital life service platform, representing 23% year-over-year (YoY) growth, according to Ant Insurance. In the health insurance category alone, the partner insurers processed 4.69 million claims on Ant Insurance.

Ant Group was recognized by Forrester, a global leading research and advisory firm, as an industry leader in Enterprise Fraud Management (EFM) in the Asia Pacific region, in the firms’ latest report.

Ant Group today unveiled its financial large language model (“the financial LLM”) at the 2023 INCLUSION·Conference on the Bund, alongside two new applications powered by the financial LLM including Zhixiaobao 2.0, an intelligent financial assistant for consumers, and Zhixiaozhu 1.0, an intelligent business assistant serving financial industry professionals.

In the countdown to the opening of the Asian Games, Ant Group is expanding multiple cross-border digital payment options for international travelers as the Official Prestige Partner of Asia's largest sports event in 2023.

Ant Group received accolades from LexisNexis® for its exceptional contributions to meeting technological, climate, poverty and sustainability challenges in LexisNexis®“Exploring the Global Sustainable Innovation Landscape: The Top 100 Companies and Beyond” report. Ant Group joins a prestigious list of corporate patent owners that are advancing transformative solutions toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

SisBerdaya, a local initiative by DANA and Ant Group dedicated to empowering Indonesian women entrepreneurs mainly from ultra-micro and micro businesses, announced six Grand Winners in Jakarta. They represent a diverse range of industries from food manufacturing to handicrafts.

Ant Group (or the “Company”) today released its 2022 Sustainability Report, highlighting progress made in implementing its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy throughout 2022.

Ant Group, the operator of Alipay+, the global cross-border digital payments and marketing solution today announced that a total of four mobile wallets are now accepted in Thailand. These include AlipayHK (Hong Kong SAR), Kakao Pay (South Korea), Touch ‘n Go eWallet (Malaysia) and Alipay (Chinese mainland), which has been accepted by Thai merchants since 2015.

Together with its partners, AntChain today unveiled a series of new Web3 initiatives, including an open-source project featuring its industry-leading cross-chain technology and AntChain OpenLab, to support Web3 developer community at the 2023 Ant Group Digital Technologies Developer Conference.

According to figures certified by the China Environmental United Certification Center (“CEC”), Ant Group has once again achieved operational carbon neutrality (Scope 1 & 2) for the second consecutive year, following the company’s initial achievement in 2021. This marks another concrete step for Ant Group towards fulfilling its pledge made in March 2021 to achieve net zero carbon emissions across Scope 1, 2 & 3 by 2030.

Ant Group, a global digital technology provider, has been recognized as a Top 100 Global Innovator™ 2023 by Clarivate™, a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world. This marks the second year in a row that Ant Group has received this prestigious recognition. Clarivate’s annual list identifies organizations at the pinnacle of the global innovation landscape by measuring excellence in innovativeness.

Ant Group announced today that, according to calculations by the China Environmental United Certification Center (CEC), the company reduced its data centers’ electricity consumption by 1,538 megawatt-hours during this year’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival from November 1 to November 11, with the help from green computing technologies.

Ant Group today officially launched its Alipay+ D-store™ at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2022. Alipay+ D-store™ is a business digitalization solution designed to support the service industry, especially brick-and-mortar businesses to digitalize their operations to boost efficiency and productivity.

Ant Group today expanded their partnership with Singapore Tourism Board (STB) to make cross-border travel to Singapore more seamless and convenient. The partnership builds on a collaboration forged in 2019 and is focused on driving tourism growth in Singapore through a series of digital and marketing initiatives over the next two years.

Nike today announced that it has joined Ant Group’s Green Energy Initiative and launched an official mini program on Alipay, the leading digital open platform, to encourage more consumers to recycle worn-out shoes.

Ant Group today announced three initiatives to make trusted AI more accessible. This includes making its graph processing database TuGraph open source; launching an industrial-grade AI security testing platform; and unveiling a privacy-preserving computation open platform. Announced at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (“WAIC”) in Shanghai, these actions aim to make trusted AI solutions more accessible to enable industrial multi-party collaborations in the digital economy.

Coty Inc. (NYSE: COTY) ("Coty"), one of the world’s leading beauty companies and global leaders in fragrance, has officially signed the Global Travel Retail Joint Business Partnership with Ant Group to enhance the cooperation in digitalization. The agreement means that Coty will be the first beauty company to reach the strategic partnership in travel retail to support digital platforms like Alipay and other digital payment methods at a global level through Alipay+, a suite of global cross-border mobile payments and marketing solutions operated by Ant Group.

Ant Group today announced that its privacy-preserving Computation Framework (or the “Framework”) becomes open source, aiming to make the technologies more accessible to global developers and speed up the Framework’s application in various scenarios.

Ant Group today announced the launch of Alipay+ Unified Payment. This major product upgrade provides a unified, scalable technical solution to help online and brick-and-mortar merchants collect money through all digital payment methods supported by Alipay+ in a more convenient and effective way.

Alipay Ant Forest, a green initiative in the Alipay app that encourages users to make low-carbon lifestyle choices, introduced a new option for users to contribute to the restoration of coastal ecosystems.

Ant Group, a global technology provider, today announced its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy as part of its latest sustainability report. The ESG strategy, which lays out Ant Group’s sustainable development objectives by 2030, will be implemented across all aspects of the Company’s operations.

Ant Group has been appointed as a member on the advisory committee of Elevandi, a company set up by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) with a mission to foster an open dialogue between the public and private sectors to advance FinTech in the digital economy.

Marriott International has signed a partnership agreement with Ant Group to enhance its digital operations in the Chinese market by providing Alipay members with various benefits when they sign up for the Marriott Bonvoy Rewards Program, Marriott’s signature loyalty program. Marriott International will deliver more membership benefits with upgrades on products and services to further improve the consumer experience under its strong brand portfolio.

Ant Group today announced that it has joined the Low Carbon Patent Pledge and made certain green computing patents available for free to low carbon innovators around the world. Ant Group joins other global leaders in low-carbon innovation, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Microsoft and Meta, in making these technologies more accessible to address climate change.

Ant Group today announced it has achieved carbon neutrality in its own operations (Scopes 1 & 2), according to 2021 emission figures certified by the China Environmental United Certification Center (CEC). This marks the Company’s first major step towards fulfilling the commitments it made in March 2021 to achieve net zero in carbon emissions by 2030, including providing periodic updates on its progress towards achieving this important goal.

Ant Group announced today the appointment of Mr. Jia Hang as the Regional General Manager for Southeast Asia. The newly created role extends Ant Group’s ongoing efforts to strengthen its talent and capability building in the region and its commitment to better support individuals and local and regional businesses, especially SMEs to ride the wave of the digital economy.

Ant Group has been named a Top 100 Global Innovator™ 2022. The annual list from Clarivate™, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, identifies organizations at the pinnacle of the global innovation landscape by measuring excellence focused on exceptional consistency and scale in innovativeness.

Restaurant Brands International Inc. ("RBI"), one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies and the owner of TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, and POPEYES® brands, today announced a regional partnership to leverage Ant Group’s digital solutions to accelerate digital transformation of its restaurant operations across Asia Pacific. This deal further complements RBI’s continuous efforts to support local franchisee operations and expansion in the Asia Pacific market.

Ant Group announced today that according to calculations by China Environmental United Certification, it was able to cut its data centers’ electricity consumption by 640 megawatt-hours during this year’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival from November 1 to November 11, thanks to a range of new green computing technologies.

AntChain, the flagship technology brand of Ant Group, today unveiled two new products at the Apsara Conference 2021 in Hangzhou – the FAIR platform and the T1 security chip – to ensure the security and trustworthiness of data flows within blockchain networks.

Ant Group today released its 2020 Sustainability Report, highlighting its key activities, achievements and progress in bringing inclusive development and environmental sustainability to the world through digital technology.