Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and Ant International Form Strategic Partnership to support Cross-border Payments and Liquidity Management with Innovative Solutions

Crédit Agricole CIB x Ant International MOU Signing Ceremony at Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt

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

Crédit Agricole CIB and Ant International have formed a strategic partnership at Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt with the signing of aMemorandum of Understanding (MoU).

Under the MoU, Crédit Agricole CIB will expand its collaboration from providing deposits and liquidity management solutions to Ant International, to explore payment solutions and innovations in real-time cross-border payments with Ant International's WorldFirst and Platform Tech businesses. 

This includes integrating Crédit Agricole CIB’s So|Cash technology with Whale, Ant International's blockchain-based platform, for instant 24/7 multi-currency, multi-bank cross-border transfers for its intragroup entities.

In addition to the MoU, the bank will also look to provide settlement services for Antom, Ant International’s merchant payment and digitisation services provider.

Etienne Bernard, Deputy Global Head of International Trade & Transaction Banking at Crédit Agricole CIB commented: “We are very pleased to join forces with Ant International, a leading global digital payment player, who is developing next-generation treasury capacities and processes, using today what could become tomorrow’s financial technology solutions. By using our So|Cash open-source protocol, we will be able to build multi-chain and multi-banking interoperability in instant and multi-currency cross-border FX transactions. Cash Management is a key priority for us. Those evolutions can bring value to both our Corporate and FI clients and complement the other innovation initiatives we are involved in being with Swift or Central Banks for example.”

Kelvin Li, General Manager of Platform Tech at Ant International, said: “We are pleased to expand our partnership with one of Europe’s leading banks as part of our larger goal to serve businesses of all sizes in the region. Crédit Agricole CIB shares our commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technology to deliver innovative global banking solutions to our customers. We look forward to working together to make cross-border payments faster, smarter, and more accessible.”

About Ant International  

With headquarters in Singapore and main operations across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, Ant International is a leading global digital payment, digitisation and financial technology provider. Through collaboration across the private and public sectors, our unified techfin platform supports financial institutions and merchants of all sizes to achieve inclusive growth through a comprehensive range of cutting-edge digital payment and financial services solutions. To learn more, please visit https://www.ant-intl.com/