Antom Receives SOC 2 Type II Certification as It Enhances Unified Merchant Payment Services with AI-Powered Payment Optimization and Risk Tech

SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 3, 2025--

Antom, a leading unified merchant payment services provider under Ant International, has received Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type II certification, a globally recognised benchmark for data security and privacy protection. This certification underscores Antom’s commitment to meeting the highest security standards, reinforcing its advanced payment solutions.

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Issued by Ernst & Young (EY), a leading independent auditing firm, the SOC 2 Type II certification is a rigorous assessment for operating effectiveness of a service provider’s internal controls. It evaluates compliance across five trust principles: Security (protection against unauthorised access), Availability (service reliability and uptime), Processing Integrity (accurate and complete data handling), Confidentiality (encryption of sensitive information), and Privacy (compliant personal data processing).

While many companies choose to certify select principles, Antom has achieved full compliance across all five criteria for its payment processing service, further making it stands out as an industry leader in secure, AI-driven payment technology. The audit firm will conduct annual reviews, and Antom will continue its recertification process.

“Antom remains committed to empowering merchants with smarter, more secure, and more efficient unified payment solutions. By harnessing technology, we are not only simplifying transactions but also fostering a more inclusive commerce ecosystem,” said Gary Liu, General Manager of Antom, Ant International. “With a focus on innovation, security, and seamless payment experiences, Antom continues to help businesses of all sizes thrive in an evolving digital economy.”

Antom, a global leader in merchant payment, growth and digitisation services, is transforming the merchant payment experience with its AI-driven and risk tech-optimised solutions. Products like Antom Copilot, Antom EasySafePay, and Antom Shield, help businesses, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), integrate payment methods faster, optimize transaction success rates, and enhance fraud prevention more efficiently.

Antom Copilot: AI-powered merchant service agent

Antom Copilot is the world’s first AI agent designed to help merchants implement, orchestrate, and optimise payment methods from end to end. Powered by GPT-4o and other large language models, Antom Copilot simplifies the traditionally complex payment integration process, delivering:

Antom Copilot acts as an AI-powered strategist, recommending optimal payment methods, generating integration code, and providing full-lifecycle merchant support. For SMEs, Antom Copilot eliminates complexities by automating the payment integration process and offering intelligent recommendations. Instead of spending weeks on complex setups, SMEs can integrate payment solutions in just minutes, allowing them to focus on business growth rather than technical challenges.

Antom EasySafePay: Seamless one-click checkout with 100% fraud protection for e-wallet payments

Designed for fast, frictionless, and secure digital wallet transactions, Antom EasySafePay addresses long-standing pain points in digital payments by reducing payment failures due to redirection issues or long loading times.

Antom EasySafePay’s one-click checkout simplifies transactions and reinforces credibility, reducing drop-offs and helping businesses, particularly SMEs, retain customers and ultimately drive higher sales.

Antom Shield: Advanced AI for risk mitigation and fraud prevention

Antom Shield is an intelligent risk solution that strengthens fraud detection while helping merchants boost order conversion rates and drive growth.

Antom Shield provides merchants with enterprise-level risk protection while optimising resource allocation. This enables businesses, including SMEs, to strengthen their security measures and reduces chargebacks and fraudulent transactions.

About Antom

Ant International's Antom is the leading payment and digitisation services provider for merchants around the world. It offers unified, vertical-specific digital payment solutions to serve businesses of all sizes. Antom supports merchants in over 50 countries and regions, enabling them to connect with consumers in more than 200 markets, with the flexibility to accept payments in more than 100 currencies. Beyond payments, it provides digital marketing solutions and merchant digitisation services to help merchant streamline operations and enhance customer engagement. To learn more, please visit https://www.antom.com/.

Antom, a leading unified merchant payment services provider under Ant International, achieves SOC 2 Type II certification— a globally recognised standard for data security and privacy protection. (Graphic: Business Wire)

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told The Associated Press “you cannot spy against an ally” after reports that the United States has stepped up intelligence gathering on Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Frederiksen's comments Friday are the latest in the spat between Denmark, Greenland and the United States because Trump seeks to annex the strategic Arctic island. Denmark and Greenland insist that the mineral-rich island is not for sale, while Trump has not ruled out taking it by military force even though Denmark is a NATO ally.

The Danish prime minister spoke to the AP the day after Denmark summoned the top American diplomat in the country for an explanation following a Wall Street Journal report which said several high-ranking officials under the U.S. director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, had directed intelligence agency heads to learn more about Greenland’s independence movement and sentiment about U.S. resource extraction there.

Jennifer Hall Godfrey, acting head of the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, met with high-ranking Danish diplomat Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen at the Danish Foreign Ministry, the ministry said in an email. It provided no further details. The embassy declined to comment.

Frederiksen said Friday the report was “rumors” in an international newspaper. The Journal cited two people familiar with the U.S. effort which it did not identify.

“Cooperation about defense and deterrence and security in the northern part of Europe is getting more and more important,” Frederiksen said. “Of course, you cannot spy against an ally.”

Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, in comments to Greenland newspaper Sermitsiaq, said the reports of espionage are unacceptable and disrespectful.

In response to questions about the Journal’s report, Gabbard’s office released a statement noting that she had made three “criminal” referrals to the Justice Department over intelligence community leaks.

“The Wall Street Journal should be ashamed of aiding deep state actors who seek to undermine the President by politicizing and leaking classified information,” Gabbard wrote. “They are breaking the law and undermining our nation’s security and democracy. Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”

Greenland’s prime minister said last month that U.S. statements about the island have been disrespectful and it “will never, ever be a piece of property that can be bought by just anyone.”

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre on Friday said those who believe there is “another kind of legal regime in the Arctic” should be told that “this is not the case.”

Speaking ahead of a Joint Expeditionary Force leaders’ meeting in Oslo, Gahr Støre said there seemed to be suggestions that “in the Arctic, there is some kind of terra nullius, law doesn’t apply.”

“It applies, sovereignty applies. And Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark,” he said ahead of the meeting with the leaders of the U.K., Nordic and Baltic nations.

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer talks to Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen during the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) Leaders' Summit in Oslo, Friday, May 9, 2025.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)

Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen listens, during a meeting of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) in Oslo, Friday, May 9, 2025. (Lise Åserud/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer listens, during a meeting of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) in Oslo, Friday, May 9, 2025. (Lise Åserud/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Ukrainian President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy joins Europe leaders via video link, during a meeting of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) in Oslo, Friday, May 9, 2025. (Lise Åserud/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen listens during the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) Leaders' Summit in Oslo, Friday, May 9, 2025.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)