The international arm of Ant Group, co-founded by Jack Ma, has made a strategic investment in R2, an embedded-lending firm serving small and medium-sized enterprises across Latin America. The deal aims to combine Ant International’s AI-driven risk-assessment technology with R2’s financing infrastructure to increase credit access in markets such as Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Brazil. Financial details were not disclosed.

Ant International Invests in Latin American Fintech R2