Author: TechNode Global Staff

GetGo raises $15M investment from Treïs to accelerate shared and sustainable mobility

GetGo Technologies (GetGo), a Singapore-based carsharing platform, has on Thursday announced a SGD20 million ($14.98 million) investment from Treïs, a family-backed investment group.

AIA Singapore partners WhiteCoat to launch digital mental health solution

AIA Singapore (AIA), the leading life insurer in employee benefits, and WhiteCoat Holdings Pte. Ltd. (WhiteCoat), Southeast Asia's leading digital health company, have partnered to provide end-to-end digital mental healthcare solutions covering mental wellbeing through to mental health therapy.

SFC consults on proposals to regulate virtual asset trading platforms

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has on Monday launched a consultation on the proposed requirements for operators of virtual asset trading platforms. Under a new licensing regime to take effect on June 1, 2023, all centralised virtual asset trading platforms carrying on business in Hong Kong or actively marketing to Hong Kong investors will need…

CapitaLand Investment establishes China Data Centre Development Fund with $750M investments

Singaporean investment firm CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) has established a China data centre development fund, CapitaLand China Data Centre Partners (CDCP). CDCP has committed to invest in two hyperscale data centre development projects in Greater Beijing, and upon completion of the projects, will add approximately S$1 billion ($750 million) to…

Malaysia’s Involve Asia raises over $10M in funding round led by Bintang Capital Partners

Bintang Capital Partners Berhad (Bintang) has announced its second investment under its maiden fund, BCP Asia Fund I L.P., into Involve Asia Technologies Sdn. Bhd. The $10 million investment round of Involve Asia was led by Bintang, and supported by co-investors Orbit Capital Malaysia, 500 Global, and Monumental Productions.

Singapore and India launch real-time payments

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have on Tuesday launched the linkage between Singapore’s PayNow and India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI).

Fitch Solutions sees Malaysia’s EV sales to reach 1 percent of total vehicle sales by 2024

Fitch Solutions has on Monday anticipated that passenger electric vehicle (EV) sales in Malaysia will expand in 2023, albeit from a low base, as a result of the implementation of incentives to encourage adoption.

Princeton Digital to invest $1B for data center campus in Malaysia and Indonesia

Princeton Digital Group (PDG), Asia’s leading data center provider, has on Monday unveiled its SG+ strategy with the announcement of a 96 MW data center campus in Batam.

Singapore’s ProfilePrint partners Guatemala’s Anacafé to provide digital platform to Guatemalan coffee farmers

Anacafé, the Guatemalan National Coffee Association and ProfilePrint, a Singapore-based artificial intellignece (AI) agrifood tech company, have on Monday announced an alliance to provide Guatemalan coffee farmers a digital platform to grade their coffee beans more effectively and efficiently with its cutting-edge technology, complementing the current…

JICA partners ANGIN to hold NINJA accelerator Demo Day in Indonesia

Government agency Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has partnered with Indonesian investment platform ANGIN on NINJA accelerator program 2022.