TechNode Global Staff

Google has on Monday announced the completion of its latest data center and cloud region campus expansion in Singapore. This milestone brings the company’s total investments in technical infrastructure in the country to $5 billion, up from $850 million in 2018.

Ant Group and Mastercard, along with 12 overseas payment partners of Alipay+ and other major international card organizations, have launched the International Consumer Friendly Zones program in Shanghai.

Singapore has launched AI Verify- Project Moonshot, a testing toolkit designed to address security and safety challenges often associated with the use of large language models (LLMs), the cornerstone of many AI-driven solutions.

Malaysian property developer S P Setia Bhd (Setia) has unveiled its newest app Setia Go in a bid to elevate Setia’s smart communities, in collaboration with Chinese tech firm Ant Digital Technologies with its cloud-to-end one-stop solution mobile platform-as-a-service (mPaaS).

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting Alternergy Holdings Corporation (AHC), a listed Philippine renewable energy developer, in securing its first green corporate loan.

Infra.Market, an India-based tech construction material solutions company, has secured an additional $50 million in financing from MARS Unicorn Fund, a joint venture from Israel-based asset manager Liquidity Group and Japan-based financial group MUFG.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Thursday it doubled to $1 billion the amount of climate financing from its private sector operations in 2023, with 75 percent of its projects including climate-related funding.

Ficus Capital (Ficus), a Malaysia-based venture capital firm, have in collaboration with INCEIF University, to launch an environmental social and government Islamic (ESG-i) assessment framework to empower micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Malaysia with sustainable practices.

Clean energy solutions provider Gentari Sdn Bhd (Gentari) has through its subsidiary Gentari Green Mobility Sdn Bhd partnered with eCommerce company Lazada to expand green mobility adoption in Malaysia.

Triple-A, the Singapore-based digital currency financial institution, has announced it will incorporate PayPal USD (PYUSD) into its payment services, allowing clients to accept the stablecoin as a payment method, and to facilitate cross-border payments using the stablecoin.