Asia

Everstone Capital, the Singapore-headquartered private equity arm of the Everstone Group, announced Tuesday that VWO and AB Tasty, two firms in the optimization space, have entered into an agreement to combine.

Australian fund Aware Super announced Tuesday a $300 million investment into the Skyline JV data center business, which indirectly owns Vantage Data Centers APAC (Vantage APAC), a global provider of hyperscale data centers with more than ten high-quality assets across Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Airwallex, a global financial platform, has acquired Paynuri Co. Ltd., an entity holding Payment Gateway and Prepaid Electronic Payment Instrument licenses as well as a Foreign Exchange Business registration, in South Korea.

AnyMind Group, a Singapore-founded business process as a service (BPaaS) company for marketing, e-commerce and digital transformation, has announced that it has acquired all shares of Bcode Inc., a Japan-based company specializing in the management and support of live streamers.

Jatri, a business to business (B2B) travel commerce platform, has secured a strategic investment from Gobi Partners, one of Asia’s leading venture capital firms.

J&T Global Express (J&T Express), a global integrated logistics service operator, and S.F. Holding, a Chinese multinational delivery services and logistics company, jointly announced Thursday that they have entered into a strategic cross-shareholding agreement involving the mutual issuance of new shares, with an investment and transaction amount of…

Fasset, the Dubai-based global banking and investment platform, has appointed seasoned banker, Rafiza Ghazali, as Managing Director, Consumer Banking, as the company accelerates the rollout of regulated consumer and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) banking services following its provisional approval from Malaysia’s Labuan FSA regulator to launch the…

NTT DATA, Sumitomo Corporation and JA Mitsui Leasing, Ltd. have on Wednesday announced the joint establishment of a new company, Intra-Asia Marine Networks Co., Ltd. (I-AM NW), to construct and operate a large-scale submarine communication cable, Intra-Asia Marine Cable (I-AM Cable), connecting Japan, Malaysia and Singapore, with additional connectivity to…

Fastly, Inc., the global edge cloud platform, announced Tuesday the recent appointment of Rachel Ler as Area Vice President of Asia, where she oversees Fastly’s business across ASEAN countries, the Greater China region, and South Korea.

Japanese multinational electronics conglomerate, Sony, has partnered with Singapore-based insurtech bolttech, to launch My Sony Care+, an embedded protection program designed to give customers extended coverage for their devices.