CFM’s Climate Investor two fund closes at $1.07B, becoming the largest climate adaptation infrastructure fund in emerging markets
Climate Fund Managers (CFM), a climate-focused blended finance investment manager, announced Monday the final close of its second blended finance facility, Climate Investor Two…
TNGlobal Tracker: Southeast Asia (SEA) monthly funding snapshot – September 2025
The SEA Monthly Funding Tracker for September 2025 reflected a sharp rebound in funding across the region. Total funding for the month stood at $230.6 million across 10 rounds,…
Why Southeast Asia’s payments journey still feels fragmented, and how smarter infrastructure can close the gap
The future of payments in Southeast Asia doesn’t hinge on any single innovation. It depends on whether we can align the systems, policies, and mindsets that shape how money moves.…
Malaysia’s KWAP launches Malaysia’s first climate-focused investment fund with target deployment of $470M
Malaysia's Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan) [KWAP] has officially launched Dana Iklim+, Malaysia’s first climate-focused investment fund with a target deployment of MYR 2…
Southeast Asia FinTech startups funding falls 39 percent on year in first nine months – Tracxn
Southeast Asia’s FinTech sector raised a total of $839 million in the first nine months of 2025, marking a 39 percent decline compared to $1.4 billion a year ago and a 56 percent…
From automation to augmentation: How AI redefines collaboration at the workplace
For Asia's organizations, the race to adopt AI and other technologies is nearly won. The next challenge—and the source of the region's true competitive advantage—will be mastering…
Singlife partners Salesforce to launch AI agent for customer service executives
Singapore homegrown financial services company Singlife announced Tuesday its collaboration with Salesforce, the world’s artificial intelligence (AI) customer relationship…
AI agents are gaining momentum in Singapore, but employees want clear boundaries – Workday
Workday, Inc., the global artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has on Wednesday released new global research that shows that while AI agents are gaining ground in the workplace…
AMD unveils rack-scale platform based on ORW introduced by Meta
American technology firm AMD has showcased a static display of its “Helios”, a rack scale platform which is developed based on the new Open Rack Wide (ORW) specification,…
Maxis partners Google Cloud for gen AI-powered conversational in-app assistant
Malaysian telecommunication firm Maxis has on Wednesday introduced Miya (Maxis Intelligence, Your Assistant), making it the first telco in Malaysia to launch a generative…
