Crédit Agricole CIB and Ant International form a new partnership to shape the future of cross border payments and liquidity management

From the left to the right: Crédit Agricole CIB – Guénolé de Cadoudal, Head of Digital Assets, Stéphanie Ekindjian Delliste, Global Head of Cash Management, Etienne Bernard, Deputy Global Head of International Trade & Transaction Banking; Ant International - Kelvin Li, General Manager of Platform Tech, Omar Berkane, Head of Platform Tech for Europe and Yanyi Liang, Head of Whale Treasury Platform.

Headquartered in Singapore with main operations across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, Ant International’s unified techfin platform supports financial institutions and merchants of all sizes to achieve growth through a comprehensive range of cutting-edge digital payment and financial services solutions, through collaboration across the private and public sectors.

The partnership focuses on three key initiatives:
 

• Blockchain-Based Treasury Solutions: Developing distributed ledger technology to enable "real-time on” on multi-currency instant cross-border treasury payments for Ant International's global liquidity management.
• Cross-Bank Transfer Platform Integration: Integrating Ant InternationaI's blockchain-based internal treasury management platform, Whale, with Crédit Agricole CIB's So|Cash technology to develop on-chain cross-bank transfers and test instant 24/7 multi-bank cross-border transfers for Ant International’s intragroup entities.
• AI-Driven FX Solutions: Exploring collaboration on AI-powered foreign exchange models that build upon traditional FX products with efficient, low-risk solutions for managing foreign exchange trading activities.