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Sea’s Shopee launches food delivery service in Malaysia rivalling GrabFood, Foodpanda

ShopeeFood will be competing with other food delivery players including ride-hailing giant Grab's GrabFood and German-based Delivery Hero's subsidiary Foodpanda.

How TADA convinces big brands to prioritize customer retention

"Our main goal is to educate clients on the importance of customer retention and why it has to be done together with customer acquisition efforts. We aim to help them understand why retention is more cost-effective when it comes to sustaining revenue."

Snaphunt envisions a future with a global talent pool, fully-automated recruitment [Q&A with Tulika Tripathi]

Wherever possible, more people are now looking for technology to help them with outcomes as compared to before the pandemic. As a result, we’re seeing international barriers to talent break down, whether for remote work, to globalize, or open new sales channels. Companies will continue to employ a more international workforce than they did before.

SoftBank Ventures Asia leads FinTech startup OY! Indonesia’s $30M Series A funding round

Other investors include MDI, Pavilion Capital, AC Venture, CCV, Wavemaker, PT SAT, Saison Capital, Orion Advisors (DST Founders).

Singapore payments firm Spenmo secures $34M Series A led by Insight Partners

Led by Insights Partners, Spenmo has clinched one of Singapore’s largest Series A funding rounds to date.

UOB Venture Management leads $30M Series B in Indonesia ‘halal’ social commerce platform Evermos

The fresh funds will be used to expand the leadership and growth teams, to enter new geographies and to deepen technology development.

Singapore-based Ezyhaul & DHL invest $20M in UK logistics tech startup DigiHaul

Ezyhaul and DHL will both take a share in DigiHaul, and the investment will be used to support "ambitious growth plans" through customer and transporter acquisition.

The future of banking: Money redefined in a financialized world (part 1 of 3)

Alternative assets are going mainstream and this expands the asset space dramatically. All types of assets will be increasingly digitized, fractionalized, and tokenized--along with the liquidity built around it.

Fave partners Google Pay to offer cashback to Singaporean users

The partnership reinforces the alignment between Fave's and Google Pay’s visions in providing a seamless mode of payment while rewarding a new generation of savvy consumers in their day-to-day transactions.

Malaysia finance minister says Indonesian FinTech unicorn Xendit to relocate financial hub to Malaysia – report

Xendit will relocate its financial hub to Malaysia, following an investment from the Malaysian government’s venture capital investment fund.