TechNode Global Staff

ShopBack, a Singapore-based shopping, rewards, and payments platform, announced Tuesday that it has been granted a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for digital payments.

Japanese multinational financial services group Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMBC Group) announced Tuesday it will appoint Ahmed Jamil Mazhari to lead transformation initiatives aimed at accelerating group-wide artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and integration.

Singapore-based fintech company Finmo has received approval from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to operate as an Authorized Electronic Money Institution (EMI).

Singapore's state-owned fund Temasek announced Wednesday that it has reported a net portfolio value (NPV) of S$434 billion ($339 billion) for the financial year ended 31 March 2025, up S$45 billion ($35.13 billion) from a year ago.

Sunday, an InsurTech based in Thailand, is working with Salesforce, the global artificial intelligence (AI) customer relationship management (CRM) firm, to centralize operations, personalize engagement for over 330,000 customers, and scale their business using solutions including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Tableau and Slack.

BDx Data Centers (BDx), a carrier-neutral data center platform based in China, has launched Southeast Asia’s first hybrid quantum artificial intelligence (AI) testbed in collaboration with Anyon Technologies, a Singapore-based large-scale quantum computing systems firm.

NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore, has appointed Dr Patrick Ennis and Donna See as strategic advisors to support its next phase of growth in innovation and deep-tech commercialization.

Bunjang, a South Korea's customer-to-customer (C2C) secondhand marketplace platform, has reaffirmed its commitment to Singapore as a strategic growth engine in its broader Asia strategy.

Curlec by Razorpay, Malaysia’s FinTech payment gateway, has forged a strategic partnership with ShopBack, Singapore’s platform for shopping, rewards, and payments, to support reward-driven checkout for Malaysian businesses and shoppers.

Sirsak, an Indonesia-based business to business (B2B) packaging waste management startup, has raised $600,000 in pre-seed funding to expand its flagship Packaging Recovery Program (PRP) technology and accelerate packaging waste collection and recycling across Indonesia.