Conference featured
global fintech leaders and showcased Ant Financial’s capabilities across
blockchain, AI, security, IoT and computing
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan 22 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Ant Financial today hosted the Ant Technology Exploration Conference
(ATEC) in Silicon Valley, bringing together global partners and
technology leaders to explore new innovations and technologies that
further Ant Financial’s mission of bringing the world equal
opportunities. This was the first ATEC held outside of China, following
the inaugural ATEC held in Hangzhou in October 2017.
The
conference featured a diverse range of speakers from academia and
industry to better explore the future of fintech, including Turing Award
winner and MIT Professor Silvio Micali; Partner and Director of
blockchain-based global payment platform Ripple, Emi Yoshikawa; founder
of prediction market Bodhi, Xiahong Lin; and Director of JPMorgan
Chase’s digital channels, Umar Farooq, among others. Ant Financial’s
Vice President and Chief Architect, Hu Xi; Vice President and Chief Data
Scientist, Alan Qi; and Vice President and Head of Ant Technology Labs,
Geoff Jiang also participated.
Ant Financial’s principal mission
is to bring inclusive financial services to unbanked and underbanked
consumers and small businesses globally. Ant Financial aims to work with
partners around the world to forge new applications around its five
core technology tenants: Blockchain, AI, Security, Internet of Things
and Computing (‘BASIC’).
In his keynote address, Hu Xi said:
“BASIC underpins everything we do at Ant Financial, so that we are able
to better serve our users, and at the same time, open up platforms to
the tech community to build on and create new applications to improve
the user experience.”
ATEC’s focus on exploring cutting-edge
technology brings together the world’s best minds and addresses key
goals and challenges, including future AI applications within fintech
and wide applications of blockchain.
As Alan Qi said, “We are
truly excited about the AI research and development driven by extremely
complex problems at the unprecedented large scale we encounter at Ant
Financial. We have opened up the state-of-art financial AI platforms we
developed – such as graph embedding technologies – to our partners and
clients; the purpose is to use technology to help the financial industry
improve efficiency, reduce cost and control risk.”
ATEC 2017
At
the inaugural ATEC last year, held in conjunction with the Alibaba
Cloud Computing Conference, Ant Financial announced a range of new
services and initiatives, such as an upgraded financial cloud offering
and biometric identification services from independent subsidiary ZOLOZ
to help partners build identity verification capabilities. Ant Financial
also released blockchain capabilities to support open and transparent
supply chains, particularly for food safety and imported goods.
Long-term Goals of ATEC
Ant
Financial hopes that ATEC can serve as a platform to build a
collaborative ecosystem for its global partners and technology leaders,
as well as showcase and share Ant Financial’s latest technological
capabilities and developments. In addition to the Silicon Valley event,
ATEC plans to host future events in Singapore, London and other major
fintech hubs.
About Ant Financial
Ant
Financial Services Group is focused on serving small and micro
enterprises, as well as individuals. Ant Financial is dedicated to
bringing the world equal opportunities through building a
technology-driven open ecosystem and working with other financial
institutions to support the future financial needs of society.
Businesses operated by Ant Financial Services Group include Alipay, Ant
Fortune, Zhima Credit and MYbank.
For more information on Ant Financial, please visit our website at www.antfin.com; or follow us on Twitter @AntFinancial.
Ant Financial Media Contact
Chenni Xu / Anna Wang
+19176642125 / +16464201479
chenni.xu@antfin.com / anna.wan@antfin.com
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SOURCE : Ant Financial Services Group
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