Juniper Research sees omnichannel payment platform revenue reaching $108B by 2031

Juniper Research forecasts global omnichannel payment platform revenue will rise 57 percent from $56 billion in 2026 to $108 billion in 2031.

VinFast’s Vietnam factory arm becomes fully domestically owned after Singapore parent exits

VinFast's main Vietnamese manufacturing company, VinFast Trading and Production JSC (VFTP), has become 100 percent domestically owned after its Nasdaq-listed, Singapore-based…

Australia’s IFM Investors, with $200B in assets, opens Singapore office for Asia credit

Australia's IFM Investors, a pension-owned asset manager with A$291.6 billion ($204.8 billion) under management, has opened an office in Singapore to expand its private-credit and…

Singapore Prison Service to deploy autonomous robot to boost surveillance, incident response

The Singapore Prison Service has developed an autonomous robotic unit, named PROTECT, to strengthen surveillance and help officers respond to incidents, as part of a broader push…

Google DeepMind picks 16 environmental-AI projects across Asia-Pacific for inaugural accelerator

Google DeepMind, the AI arm of Google, has selected 16 startups, nonprofits and research teams across the Asia-Pacific for the first cohort of an accelerator supporting…

Liquid Network pauses after $320M Bitcoin withdrawal

Liquid Network paused transaction activity after about 4,000 BTC left its federation wallet through a SideSwap-authorized peg-out route.

SkyGate NHJ Technology opens new manufacturing facility in Penang

Advanced precision engineering and smart manufacturing firm SkyGate NHJ Technology Sdn. Bhd. has officially opened its new manufacturing facility in the Perai Free Industrial…

Pixxel raises $100M to expand Earth intelligence platform

Indian space technology company Pixxel has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by Temasek and Seraphim Space Investment Trust.

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Q-Day is the deadline, not the starting point: An operational roadmap for Singapore financial institutions

Ken Lin of Aires Applied Quantum Technology outlines an operational roadmap for Singapore financial institutions preparing for post-quantum migration, from cryptographic inventory…

Indonesia remains AI adoption market as infrastructure, talent constrain ambitions – BMI

Indonesia is likely to remain predominantly a consumer and adopter of foreign-built artificial intelligence (AI) over the next several years, rather than a producer of frontier AI…