Malaysia

Malaysia marketing tech firm Involve Asia expands to Vietnam

Vietnam is an important market for Involve Asia as it is one of the fastest-growing economies in Southeast Asia with a vibrant and technologically savvy population, Involve Asia Chief Executive Officer and Founder Jimmy How said.

Singapore’s eSports firm ESPL partners Philippine’s Yield Guild Games for crypto NFT gaming

Sedania Innovator Berhad (Sedania)'s Singapore-based Esports Players League (ESPL) on Wednesday announced a partnership with Yield Guild Games Southeast Asia (YGG SEA) as part of its vision to amass gamers in the cryptocurrency, non-fungible token (NFT) gaming and metaverse sphere. The partnership aims to generate up to 300,000 gamers for ESPL and Sedania.

Malaysia-listed MYEG’s Zetrix blockchain to launch mainnet

Zetrix is the international extension of Xinghuo BIF, China’s largest national-level blockchain network supported by all levels of the Chinese government and running both governmental and commercial applications.

Applications now open in Malaysia for 5th cohort of EY startup incubator program

This year, the EY organization announced the continued expansion of the EY Foundry startup incubator program into Cambodia, Guam, Thailand and Vietnam.

airasia Super App collaborates with Google Cloud for digital growth

Google will also tap AirAsia Super App’s in-region network to expand its developer community in Southeast Asia.

Travel tech firms await ‘revenge traveling’ as Malaysia reopens, but concerns remain

Travel tech firms are finally able to hope for a better year as Malaysia reopens for international travelers after two years. But still, the recovery of the traveling industry may not be a smooth one as a sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron version of coronavirus, BA.2, is now dominant worldwide, prompting surges in countries across US, Europe…

Pace partners Shangri-La to offer BNPL payments across its hotels in Malaysia

To date, Pace has over 5,000 points-of-sale across the Asia region and is on track to meet its goal of 1 million users by the end of 2022. Pace also aims to have an annualized Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) of $1 billion by end 2022.

Malaysia’s JurisTech partners with Germany’s Mambu to drive innovation in Malaysia’s digital banking ecosystem

Malaysian FinTech firm JurisTech on Wednesday announced a partnership with Germany-based cloud-native core banking platform Mambu to propel the growth of the digital banking ecosystem in Malaysia. This new collaboration will act as a catalyst for further expansion of the industry, with the result being greater support for both unbanked and underserved…

Ant-backed e-wallet Touch ‘n Go launches digital personal loan facility

Touch ‘n Go (TNG) Group, a Malaysia-based payment firm that is backed by Jack Ma's Ant Group Co, announced Friday the launch of GOpinjam, an inclusive digital personal loan proposition available through TNG eWallet. This marks TNG eWallet’s first digital lending solutions offering, having previously already launched financial services propositions in…

Australia’s FinTech unicorn Airwallex launches payment services in Malaysia

Australia-based FinTech platform Airwallex announced Thursday the launch of its cross-border payment services in Malaysia, following its grant of a money services business license by Malaysian regulator Bank Negara Malaysia in August last year. Initially, qualified Malaysian businesses will be given access to Airwallex's fast, transparent and cost-effective…