Sourced records of Chinese AI deployments across the Global South and the Middle East

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.

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.