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Adobe and Antom forge strategic partnership to empower digital creativity with seamless payment access across Asia
Adobe and Antom have partnered to launch an optimized payment experience and tailored digital marketing offerings for Adobe’ s customers across Asia.
“ As our base of customers in Asia fast expands, we’ re excited to announce our partnership with Antom to integrate localized payment options for our customers and unlock new growth opportunities in the various markets we’ re expanding with Antom into,” said Matt Wegner, Vice President, Global Payments, Adobe.
( Japan), Touch‘ n Go( Malaysia) and True Money( Thailand). Moving forward, both companies may explore opportunities to introduce additional payment methods to include credit cards, bank transfers, digital wallets and more.
“ Adobe’ s AI strategy aligns closely with our commitment to supporting merchants with unified payment solutions powered by AI, and we look forward to driving greater synergy together,” said Gary Liu, General Manager of Antom, Ant International.
Adobe will integrate localized payment solutions to strengthen its global footprint with its user-centric approach. Leveraging Antom’ s comprehensive acquiring network, advanced payment technology and broad local payment method coverage across Asia, this partnership will help Adobe optimize transaction flows, increasing conversion rates, and ensuring fast, secure and cost-effective payment settlement.
In the first phase of the collaboration, 8 new alternative payment options will be rolled out across 8 key Asian markets, including AlipayHK( Hong Kong SAR, China), DANA( Indonesia), GCash( the Philippines), Kakao Pay( South Korea), Momo( Vietnam), PayPay
MYEG and Beitou IT Innovation to establish flagship China-ASEAN AI lab
Malaysia’ s MYEG and China’ s Beitou IT Innovation are to jointly set up the Malaysia-China AI Innovation and Cooperation Centre.
In conjunction with the signing of a Government-to-Government MoU, the two companies have been selected to jointly establish a one-ofa-kind G2G lab that brings together leading AI companies from China and ASEAN to jointly develop localised AI products and to power cross-border applications.
Spearheaded by MYEG, the AI lab will also see the participation of leaders in their respective fields, including Deepseek, DJI, Leju Robot, Huawei Technologies, Alibaba Group and Heitech Padu Berhad.
Located at MYEG Headquarters in Petaling Jaya, the AI Lab will focus on the convergence of Blockchain, Generative AI and robotics technologies with emphasis on cross-border applications and customisation of AI services according to local culture and values.
The Guangxi provincial government has allocated a sum of RMB10 billion through an investment fund to seed the development of such projects under the China-ASEAN programme.
“ Working closely with our China and Malaysia partners, we are confident of increasing the overall productivities of Malaysia and ASEAN by leveraging the power of AI,” said Beitou IT Innovation Group Chairman Lai Shuiping.
“ Blockchain, robotics and AI technologies are converging to provide the next wave of services and we are well positioned to offer state of the art next generation products. We look forward to expanding this partnership to other ASEAN countries,” said MYEG Group Managing Director TS Wong.
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