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Singaporean-Founded Paymonade has been granted a MiCA license by Liechtenstein's Financial Market Authority (FMA) to provide regulated crypto-asset services across all 30 states of the European Economic Area under a single passportable license.

Crypto.com announced Thursday a strategic $400 million investment from Citadel Securities valuing the company at $20 billion.

Singapore-based enterprise AI company Whale has raised $40 million in a Series C extension, bringing its total Series C funding to $100 million, as it looks to expand operations across North America, the Middle East, and Europe.

We believe the platforms that will shape the next chapter of wealth management won’t necessarily be the ones serving the most sophisticated investors. They’ll be the ones that bring the most people into the system for the first time and build the trust to keep them there. 

Thailand's Thai Aviation Industries (TAI), UAE-based Edgewater Solutions Limited, and Spain's Amadeus will jointly develop a modernization roadmap for passenger processing and airport operations across Thailand's international and regional airports.

Restrictive digital regulations in Malaysia could reduce venture capital funding by 26 percent, equivalent to RM792 million ($170 million) less per year on average, period from 2026 to 2035.

The Iran War has provided a silver lining for renewable energy (RE) in Malaysia due to rising grid power cost as a result of higher fuel prices (coal and Tier 2 gas) which has improved the economics for RE and driven stronger demand for RE as a cheaper alternative among consumers, analysts said in recent reports.

inaugural WBBA Broadband Development Summit APAC 2026, held in Bangkok on 14 July. Convened by the World Broadband Association (WBBA), the summit brought together the ITU, regional regulators, and leading operators – including AIS, Globe, Telkomsel, XLSmart, HKT, and China Mobile International.

Asia remains at the center of the transformational artificial intelligence (AI) investment story, as it expands from a narrow focus on chips and data centers to a much larger ecosystem spanning memory, compute, power infrastructure, grid upgrades, industrial systems and advanced manufacturing, MetLife Investment Manager and PineBridge Investments said on…

London-based Winnow, an AI-powered food waste solution provider, has acquired Singapore's Lumitics, a food waste technology company operating in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, the former said in a statement on Thursday, without any financial details.