Ant International and Barclays partnered to apply Ant’s Time-Series Transformer (TST) AI FX Model to global treasury/FX hedging, according to a company release dated 7 May 2025.
TST: transformer FX model with close to 2 billion parameters; forecasts cashflow and FX exposure hourly/daily/weekly at 90%+ accuracy. Barclays integrated TST into BARX NetFX Guaranteed FX for e-commerce and payments clients. First batch of Ant intra-group FX transactions with Barclays completed at launch stage. Aim: cut unnecessary hedging and risk-premium costs; pass FX cost efficiency to Ant business clients (EUR/US$highlighted).
Ben Parkinson (Barclays) and Kelvin Li (Ant Platform Tech GM) quoted on forecasting accuracy and hedging efficiency.
“Their state-of-the-art AI model has improved the accuracy of forecasting cash flows and helped us optimise the FX hedging process.” said Ben Parkinson, Head of Global Fintech & FX Automation Sales, Barclays.
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