Japan’s Sumitomo Life invests additional $133M in Singapore’s Singlife
Singapore homegrown financial services company Singlife has on Wednesday announced Japanese insurance company Sumitomo Life Insurance Company (Sumitomo Life) has increased its…
Carsome appoints Miguel Fernandez as CFO
Southeast Asia’s largest integrated car e-Commerce platform Carsome Group Inc. has on Wednesday announced the appointment of Miguel Fernandez as its Group Chief Financial Officer,…
Malaysia’s Maybank expands cross-border services to China; boosts ASEAN financial integration
Malaysian lender Malayan Banking (Maybank) has on Wednesday announced the expansion of its cross-border QR Pay service to China, one of the first in the market for a Malaysian…
Filipino startup Swarm raises $1.1M in Pre-Seed funding round
Swarm, a Filipino tech company that connects startup founders with freelance tech builders, has announced that it has raised $1.1 million in a pre-seed funding round. Leading the…
Malaysia’s PayNet partners China’s Ant Group for cross-border digital payments
Malaysia's payments firm Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PayNet) and China-based Alibaba Group's fintech subsidiary Ant Group have on Wednesday launched their cross-border…
COMEUP 2023 opens in Seoul, aims to become a truly global event
COMEUP 2023 will be held at Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, South Korea from Nov 8 to 10, and will also be available online, through a livestream.
NEFIN and MYDIN team up for carbon-neutral energy solutions in Malaysia
NEFIN, an Asia Pacific green independent power producers, and Mydin Mohamed Holdings Berhad (MYDIN), a halal home-grown wholesale and retail chain in Malaysia, have on Tuesday…
Singapore’s Perfect Nature raises $740,000 seed funding for subsidiary Snuugo
Perfect Nature, a Singapore-based healthcare and lifestyle company, has secured SGD $1 million ($740,000) in seed funding for its subsidiary brand, Snuugo, the first intuitive and…
Malaysia’s Khazanah Impact Innovation Challenge 2023 unveils Top three winners
The Khazanah Impact Innovation Challenge (KIIC) 2023 has concluded its Demo Day on Tuesday, where 15 finalists representing impactful Malaysian businesses pitched for potential…
Malaysia’s TNB partners Singapore’s Charge+ for cross-border EV charging platform
Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Malaysia's sustainable energy solutions provider, and Chargeplus Sdn Bhd (Charge+), a subsidiary of Singapore-based integrated electric vehicle (EV)…
Thailand’s SCG’s IoT unit, powered by Tuya Smart, eyes China market
The Tuya Innovation Roundtable (Asia Pacific) on Oct 18 in Bangkok also includes presentations by all three companies, a panel discussion and interview sessions. Media…
Singapore’s Studio 30 50 launches open call for startups to fast-track commercial viability via maritime
Studio 30 50, a Singapore-based MaritimeTech venture studio, has launched applications for its next cohort of startups and founders eyeing commercial scale in the maritime…
OneDegree Global, Eazy Digital forge strategic alliance to offer innovative solutions for insurance providers
Singapore-based insurance technology solutions provider OneDegree Global (OneDegree) and Thailand-based sofeware as a service (SaaS) insurtech startup Eazy Digital have joined…
