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DeepSeek × WorldFirst: Global Financial Operations Behind B2B Commercialisation
DeepSeek partners with WorldFirst to build an integrated financial solution for collecting global payments, consolidating funds, managing transactions and converting currencies across its B2C and B2B businesses. This enables more efficient, transparent and compliant financial operations.
Background: DeepSeek enters a new commercialisation phase amid global user growth
As global usage scales, DeepSeek needs to adapt its payment infrastructure to support increasingly diverse payment flows and funding sources.
DeepSeek must manage two distinct payment flows: frequent, low-value payments from global consumers, and higher-value enterprise payments that typically involve longer processing cycles and more complex compliance requirements.
As a result, DeepSeek needs a financial solution that can efficiently manage consumer and enterprise payments, multi-currency accounts and online FX conversions.
Challenges: DeepSeek's expanding variety of transactions introduces financial challenges
- Diverse payment methods complicate global fund collection and consolidation
DeepSeek serves global users with varied payment methods, currencies and habits. As its product portfolio and customer base evolve, payment needs become more complex. This demands a more flexible, scalable and stable payment system that can handle overnight volume surges during model releases while ensuring a consistent payment experience and rapid fund consolidation.
- Enterprise payments involve longer processing times and more complex entity identification and reconciliation
Enterprises usually pay by bank transfer, but cross-border wires are slow, costly, and require additional effort for onboarding, credit management and reconciliation. Every payment requires matching the correct payer, enterprise, and invoice. As transaction volumes grow, collecting money and following compliance rules become harder.
- Managing multiple currencies and accounts increases fund management complexity
When collecting money from both individuals and enterprises, DeepSeek must also track the transactions, view balances, handle FX conversions and ensure compliance. Without a unified management gateway, the finance team must switch between multiple accounts and systems. This process increases the complexity of reconciliation, FX conversion and fund management.
Enterprise Solution: One account for global financial operations
DeepSeek works with WorldFirst and Antom of Ant International to create an integrated financial infrastructure for its global financial operations.
- Support for diverse payment methods
Through Antom acquiring, DeepSeek can accept payments from 200+ countries and regions using over 300 local payment methods. Backed by Ant International's smart risk control, this solution enhances payment security and reduces transaction friction. It minimises transaction friction and facilitates global growth.
- Consolidating multiple funding sources into one account
WorldFirst provides a dedicated account for DeepSeek to collect user payments and receive enterprise bank transfers. This setup allows DeepSeek to manage funds from different sources in one place.
WorldFirst also enables DeepSeek to manage an enterprise customer list and incoming fund details in real time.
Enterprise customers on the list are pre-identified when they pay, and risk controls are also applied to accelerate transfers, transaction matching and reconciliation.
- Managing money with total visibility and control
After fund consolidation, DeepSeek can view all account balances, transactions and fund flows within a single WorldFirst platform without switching between accounts and systems. This streamlines money management across markets, channels and currencies and makes fund flows more transparent.
- Online FX conversion
WorldFirst supports online FX conversion declarations and eliminates offline paperwork. With competitive exchange rates, transparent fees and 24/7 real-time conversion, DeepSeek can flexibly manage multi-currency funds and cut cross-border costs.
Results: More centralised and efficient money operations
Through its partnership with WorldFirst, DeepSeek centralises and simplifies global fund management and gains greater visibility into its global commercial operations.
DeepSeek is an artificial intelligence company that builds powerful, affordable and open-access large language models for users, developers, and businesses worldwide.
- Industry
- Location
China
- Company Valuation
RMB 400 billion (as of June 2026)
WorldFirst Capabilities Used
Global Checkout
Global Collection
Real-time Treasury
Multi-currency Account
