Ant International has appointed Jiang-Ming Yang as Chief Innovation Officer (CIO), effective immediately. In this new position, Jiang-Ming Yang will lead the integration and collaboration between the product and technology teams, spearheading continuous innovation across the company’s payments, digitalization, and embedded finance sectors.
Jiang-Ming Yang brings a wealth of experience from leading global payments and e-commerce firms, previously serving as Ant International’s Chief Product Officer.
Jiang-Ming Yang played a pivotal role in the development of fintech and growth technology solutions, enhancing customer success and operational efficiencies across Ant International’s four primary business domains: Alipay+ (a unified digital gateway for mobile payments and super apps), Antom (unified payment services for global merchants), WorldFirst (unified account services for SMEs), and embedded finance offerings like Bettr and platform technology for liquidity management and credit solutions.
“Ant International will continue to invest at the frontier of innovation to help businesses, especially SMEs, to achieve sustainable growth in an increasingly complex global environment. Top on our list of priorities will be to push the cost and efficiency boundary for cross-border payment and settlement; to democratise cutting-edge technology solutions for SMEs on payment, trade and financial services; and to revolutionise user experience with new intelligent technology for cross-border travel,” said Jiang-Ming.
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This step follows CEO Peng Yang’s information in December 2024 regarding organizational and strategic upgrades aimed at expanding AI-driven fintech solutions tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within Ant International’s payment and digitalization ecosystem.
In the past years, Jiang-Ming has led the development and implementation of pioneering AI solutions.
