LandedFinTech AIJoint Venture / Strategic Partnership2020SE-052

Ant Group (GCash/Mynt) · Philippines

Global South·Southeast Asia·Group: Ant Group

Source: GCash Adopts Alipay's Risk Technology to Bolster Security (2020)High

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What happened

Ant Group holds a stake in the Philippines' Mynt (the parent company of GCash, a joint venture with Globe Telecom and Ayala Corporation), and has exported Alipay's AI risk-control engine AlphaRisk to GCash: in June 2020, GCash announced the adoption of an upgraded version of AlphaRisk to strengthen real-time anti-fraud and risk management, achieving a fraud loss rate below 0.64 per ten million, leveraging more than 200 algorithms under AutoPilot to automatically adjust risk-control strategies.

Localisation & innovation

AI-powered anti-fraud for a mobile wallet serving the Philippines' large unbanked population; a localized compensation and protection mechanism to build trust in digital finance

Structured fields

Host country: Philippines
Region: Southeast Asia
AI segment: FinTech AI
Entry mode: Joint Venture / Strategic Partnership
Entry year: 2020
Deployment status: Landed
Capital direction: China->host (outbound deployment)
Company group: Ant Group

Local partner

Globe Telecom, Ayala Corporation

Telecom operatorNo state linkage recorded

Scale

As of 2020, GCash had over 20 million registered users and more than 75,000 QR merchants (company-disclosed)

Basis: company-disclosed

Sources & notes

Source: GCash Adopts Alipay's Risk Technology to Bolster Security (2020)High

Record note: Verified: Mynt is a three-way joint venture among Ant Group, Ayala, and Globe (via 917Ventures), established with a Chinese-invested background. The original BitPinas article mentions only Alipay and does not reference Ant Group/Mynt; therefore, the equity-stake section must be separately sourced. entry_year = 2020 refers to the year AlphaRisk technology was deployed, not the year Ant acquired its stake (circa 2017).

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ADVANCE.AI (Advance Intelligence Group)

Philippines·Southeast Asia

LandedSE-050

FinTech AIProduct / Service Export2019

ADVANCE.AI, under Advance Intelligence Group, has provided AI-based digital identity verification, KYC/KYB, and risk-control services in the Philippines since 2019, with clients including Skyro, among others. In August 2024, it signed an agreement with the state-owned credit information company CIC and obtained an SAE license to become a new credit bureau in the Philippines, commencing operations in the fourth quarter of that year and serving fintech companies and digital banks. It has also partnered with FinScore to provide credit scoring for the unbanked population using telecom alternative data.

Source: Credit Information Corporation (CIC), ADVANCE.AI sign agreement to launch credit bureau in the Philippines (2024)High