Author: TechNode Global Staff

VDX, the Hong Kong-based up-and-coming digital asset platform, has on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership with MaiCapital, an Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission (SFC)-licensed blockchain and virtual asset manager, to support its upcoming Security Token Offering (STO) projects.

China-based venture capital firm Quest Ventures has appointed Philippine-based April Ong Vaño as its Head of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG). In this capacity, Ong Vaño will play a pivotal role in advancing the company's mission and advancing sustainability efforts in key markets.

Japan's venture capital firm Incubate Fund Asia has on Thursday announced the first close of its third fund which has a target corpus of $50 million. The fund is expanding its focus on supporting pre-seed and seed-stage startups in India and South East Asia (SEA).

Chinese digital payment firm Ant Group has officially welcomed seven new leading e-wallets and payment apps from Asia to the “Alipay+-in-China” Program (A+China Program). The new additions bring the total number of overseas e-wallets accepted in the Chinese mainland to ten.

SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, has launched audax Financial Technology (audax), a digital banking technology solutions provider. The platform is designed to empower banks and financial institutions to accelerate their digital transformation, deliver new business models, serve new customer segments and…

Malaysia's pension fund Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan) [KWAP] has on Thursday announced the launch of Dana Perintis, aimed at injecting vitality into Malaysia's venture and startup ecosystem. With a commitment to invest up to MYR 500 million ($106.6 million) over the next 18 to 24 months, KWAP is set to empower early-stage companies, drive…

Google Cloud has on Friday announced that it has added 11 more of the most in-demand blockchains to the BigQuery public datasets program, while making improvements to existing datasets in the program. The 11 in-demand chains that Google Cloud is adding into BigQuery public datasets include: Avalanche; Arbitrum; Cronos; Ethereum (Görli); Fantom (Opera);…

Truckistan Technologies, the Pakistan-based tech-enabled less-than-truckload (LTL) company, has on Tuesday announced its successful seed fundraising round. The final amount is nearly $1 million with some late-stage participants yet to finalize their commitments.

HSBC has on Wednesday announced that it plans to make available $1 billion of financing to early-stage climate tech companies around the world. The financing is expected to support start-ups to create a range of new solutions, including electric vehicle (EV) charging, battery storage, sustainable food and agriculture, and carbon removal technologies.