HONG KONG and SHANGHAI, July 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. ("Ping An", the "Company" or the "Group", HKEX: 2318; SSE: 601318) has announced the appointment of Mr. Ray Wang as the Group's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and General Manager of Ping An Technology. The appointment of Ray Wang will significantly enhance the Company's research and development (R&D) and application capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI). His leadership is expected to drive the deep integration of Ping An's self-developed large language models and open-source big data platforms, accelerating the establishment of five key digital systems "digital business, digital operations, digital management, digital marketing, and digital services." This move aims to inject strong momentum into the Company's technology-enabled "integrated finance + health and senior care" dual-driver strategy, further advancing its comprehensive digital transformation.
Ray Wang holds a master's degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore. Prior to joining Ping An, he held senior technical management roles at globally renowned companies such as Google and Bloomberg. In 2015, Wang became Chief Architect at Baidu, where he spearheaded the development of Baidu Wallet and financial services. In 2016, he joined Ant Group, serving as Vice President and CTO of Ant Fortune and Ant Insurance. At Ant Group, he led innovations in digital finance and AI, managing technical and research teams across wealth management, insurance, consumer finance, MYbank, and Zhima Credit. He launched pioneering generative AI products such as AI financial assistant and AI financial business assistant. With nearly 20 years of experience in the "finance + technology" sector, Wang brings extensive expertise in the digital transformation of financial services, the development and application of financial large models, top-tier technical skills, and exceptional innovation capabilities.
In recent years, Ping An has been oriented by customer needs, focusing on empowering business scenarios as its core strategy. Ping An has continuously invests in R&D to build leading technological capabilities, which have been widely utilized to enable its core financial businesses and accelerate the development of its "integrated finance + health and senior care" ecosystem. This strengthened Ping An's internal smart application of business scenarios, while promoting the digital transformation of the industry as a whole. The Company has built a "953" technology foundation backed by the data of nine major databases, technical support from the five laboratories, and development and application services of the three technology companies, which creating an AI moat. As of the end of 2024, Ping An has a first-class technology team of over 21,000 technology developers and more than 3,000 scientists. As of March 31, 2025, Ping An cumulatively won 45 championships in domestic and overseas AI competitions and cumulatively filed 55,435 patent applications, leading most international financial institutions.
About Ping An Group
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. (HKEx:2318 / 82318; SSE:601318) is one of the largest financial services companies in the world. It strives to become a world-leading provider of integrated finance, health and senior care services. Under the technology-driven "integrated finance + health and senior care" strategy, the Group provides professional "financial advisory, family doctor, and senior care concierge" services to its nearly 240 million retail customers. Ping An advances intelligent digital transformation and employs technologies to improve financial businesses' quality and efficiency and enhance risk management. The Group is listed on the stock exchanges in Hong Kong and Shanghai. As of the end of December 2024, Ping An had more than RMB12 trillion in total assets. The Group ranked 27th in the Forbes Global 2000 list in 2025 and 47th in the Fortune Global 500 list in 2025.
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Ping An Appoints AI Expert Ray Wang as Chief Technology Officer to Accelerate Comprehensive Digital Transformation
Ping An Appoints AI Expert Ray Wang as Chief Technology Officer to Accelerate Comprehensive Digital Transformation
DUBAI, UAE, Jan. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Mantle, the high-performance distribution and liquidity layer connecting TradFi and on-chain finance, announced the January edition of its monthly livestream series, Mantle State of Mind – Episode 05. Titled "2026: The Next Wave of MoMNTum with New Builders on Mantle," the session brings together Mantle's core team and a new wave of ecosystem builders to kick off the year with forward-looking perspectives on product, growth, and ecosystem expansion.
As the first community-facing broadcast of 2026, Episode 05 is designed as an insightful, multi-angle conversation with newly onboarded teams offering real perspectives across trading infrastructure, gaming and fan economies, and RWA-native products. Viewers will hear directly from builders on why they chose Mantle, how they are building here, and how Mantle supports them across GTM, distribution, and growth.
Reviewing Monthly progress across Mantle Ecosystem
The session opens with a January Review for Mantle, spotlighting key metrics, ecosystem highlights, and early signals from Mantle's Global Hackathon offering a consolidated view of how Mantle's distribution-layer strategy is translating into real on-chain growth.
New Builders on Mantle: Different Angles, One Ecosystem
A core segment of the episode introduces newly onboarded ecosystem partners and the use cases they bring to Mantle:
- SCOR is transforming the sports industry by building an on-chain fan economy where tokenized sports IP meets programmable fandom.
- VOOI is a next-generation trading marketplace powered by chain abstraction.
- Fluxion DEX is a full-stack, Mantle-native DEX purpose-built for RWA trading.
Through live conversations, audiences will explore how next-generation trading, gaming, and RWA products are being built on Mantle and how these teams plan to collaborate within the ecosystem to scale real adoption.
The builders shared their excitement for joining Mantle and the livestream:
"Mantle gives us the performance and ecosystem reach we need to turn sports fandom into something truly on-chain," said Tom Mizzone, the founder of SCOR, "We're excited to share this journey with the community."
"We chose Mantle because it aligns with our vision of seamless, chain-abstracted trading," said Egrr, Head of BD from VOOI, "This livestream is a great chance to connect with builders and users shaping what's next."
"Fluxion is proud to be building on Mantle to align their RWA vision," said Sham W, Marketing Lead of Fluxion, "Joining this session lets us show how RWA trading can scale when infrastructure and ecosystem move together."
Community Airdrop Activation
To encourage real-time participation, viewers are invited to ask questions directly to hosts and guests. Active participants will be eligible for special airdrop provided by SCOR, reinforcing Mantle's community-first approach and rewarding engagement during the livestream.
About Mantle
Mantle positions itself as the premier distribution layer and gateway for institutions and TradFi to connect with on-chain liquidity and access real-world assets, powering how real-world finance flows.
With over $4B+ in community-owned assets, Mantle combines credibility, liquidity and scalability with institutional-grade infrastructure to support large-scale adoption. The ecosystem is anchored by $MNT within Bybit, and built out through core ecosystem projects like mETH, fBTC, MI4 and more. This is complemented by Mantle Network's partnerships with leading issuers and protocols such as Ethena USDe, Ondo USDY, and OP-Succinct.
For more information about Mantle, please visit: mantle.xyz
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For media enquiries, please contact: contact@mantle.xyz
About SCOR
SCOR provides on-chain infrastructure and a tokenization framework that turns sports IP and fan engagement into programmable, composable assets, opening new monetization and insight channels for rights holders and giving fans verifiable ownership and utility.
SCOR brings together an ecosystem of 2,000+ athletes, teams, and leagues, serving around 2M end users across multiple Web3 game titles, and shaping the future of the $500B global sports IP market.
Website: https://scor.io
Whitepaper: https://scor.io/whitepaper
X: https://x.com/SCORProtocol
TG: https://t.me/scortoken
About VOOI
VOOI is a Unified Trading App that provides a single access to Crypto and RWA (Real-World Asset) Perp and Spot markets, powered by Chain Abstraction. By aggregating markets and liquidity, VOOI simplifies the complexity of trading and unlocks gasless no-bridge cross-chain trading.
One Balance – One Interface – All Markets. VOOI provides a CEX-grade trading experience without compromising the decentralization principles.
Website: https://vooi.io
Trading App: https://app.vooi.io
X: https://x.com/vooi_io
Telegram: https://t.me/vooi_app
About Fluxion
Fluxion Network is the native liquidity infrastructure on Mantle, specifically engineered for the RWA (Real-World Asset) era. By pioneering a Hybrid Liquidity Model that integrates V2/V3 AMM pools with a high-precision RFQ Orderbook, Fluxion delivers institutional-grade execution and unmatched capital efficiency.
Moving beyond the traditional DEX model, Fluxion serves as a modular, RWA-Optimized foundation designed to support the next generation of asset-backed finance and on-chain market scaling.
Website: https://app.fluxion.network
Docs: https://fluxion-network.gitbook.io/fluxion-network
X: https://x.com/Fluxion_dex
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Mantle to Introduce New RWA Trading Capabilities and Sports Fan Economies with Fluxion, VOOI, SCOR in Upcoming Jan Livestream
