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# OCBC launches round-the-clock Singapore–Malaysia treasury transfers with Ant International
- URL: https://www.southeastasiaconnect.com/ocbc-ant-international-singapore-malaysia-treasury-transfers/
- Published: 2026-10-08T02:05:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-08T04:06:15.000Z
- Description: The initial service lets Ant International move Singapore-dollar and US-dollar deposits between its entities beyond ordinary banking hours.
- Author: Lars Voedisch
- Tags: News, #google-news, Singapore, Malaysia, Financial Services

[OCBC](https://www.ocbc.com/?ref=southeastasiaconnect.com) has launched a service with [Ant International](https://www.ant-intl.com/?ref=southeastasiaconnect.com) that allows the payments group to move funds between its Singapore and Malaysian entities around the clock. Announced on 7 October, the initial service supports Singapore-dollar and US-dollar deposits for Ant’s internal treasury transactions.

For the group’s treasury teams, the change is the ability to mobilise cash across that corridor beyond ordinary banking windows. OCBC says conventional cross-border movements can be constrained by processing cycles, operating hours and settlement cut-off times.

## Bank deposits represented on a digital ledger

The service uses tokenised deposits: digital representations of commercial-bank deposits recorded on a distributed ledger. OCBC supplies the blockchain capabilities, while Ant provides access through WhaleRTP, its wholesale settlement and treasury-management platform.

OCBC says transfers on the ledger create a permanent audit trail that can reduce manual reconciliation. It describes the service as supporting near-real-time settlement between Ant entities, helping them manage the funds available to different businesses. The announcement does not quantify transaction volumes, settlement times or operating savings.

Carmen Chan, OCBC’s deputy head of Global Transaction Banking, said combining the bank’s transaction-banking expertise with Ant’s platform is intended to improve the speed and visibility of treasury operations. Ant International executive Kelvin Li said the partnership would support cross-border liquidity management across its ecosystem.

## A separate launch from September’s bank-network transactions

The Singapore–Malaysia service follows other tokenised-deposit work by OCBC. In September, the bank completed a US-dollar cross-border transaction with Citibank on Swift’s ledger. OCBC also took part with two other local banks in Singapore-dollar domestic transactions on that ledger during the same month.

Those earlier transactions used Swift’s infrastructure. The newly announced Ant service is delivered through WhaleRTP and addresses the payments group’s own movements between entities. That distinction matters to corporate treasury teams comparing how such systems connect their businesses, which currencies they support and where funds can be moved.

**Source:** [OCBC’s 7 October 2026 tokenised-deposit announcement](https://www.ocbc.com/group/media/release/2026/ocbc-tokenised-deposit-ant-international-treasury.page?ref=southeastasiaconnect.com).