Malaysia

Maybank Singapore announced Thursday its participation in the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) BLOOM initiative, reinforcing its commitment to advancing next-generation, best-in-class cross-border payments and transaction banking infrastructure.

Germany-based online food ordering and delivery company Delivery Hero has invested more than MYR 20 million ($4.89 million) in Malaysia to strengthen regional operations and customer experience.

Malaysia's Qmed Asia and United States chipmaker Intel will cooperate to develop a unified patient monitoring platform for hospitals, combining Intel's Patient Monitoring Hub Reference Implementation with Qmed Asia's healthcare software to consolidate fragmented bedside data into a centralized Smart Ward dashboard.

Funding Societies announced Monday that it has secured a new working capital financing facility from Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad (MDV), a subsidiary of the Minister of Finance of Malaysia, to support technology-driven and underserved Malaysian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through its platform.

Japanese technology firm Macnica, Inc has acquired a major stake in Orangeleaf Consulting Holdings Co. (OLC), a Singapore-registered, Malaysian-founded digital transformation and enterprise software consultancy with operations across Malaysia, Japan and Singapore.

Global software firm SAP SE announced Monday the appointment of Ellian Teo as Country Managing Director for SAP Malaysia.

Zeekr Intelligent Technology Malaysia, under China's electric vehicle (EV) brand Zeekr, has reached 5,000 cumulative vehicle deliveries in Malaysia in less than two years since launch, the firm said in a statement on Tuesday.

SB Telecom Singapore, a subsidiary of Japan's SoftBank, Singapore's SC ZEUS Data Centers, and Malaysia's Robust HPC Group will collaborate to develop AI data center infrastructure across Southeast Asia, with initial deployments focused on Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

Malaysia is the only market among eight surveyed in Asia where 100 percent of respondents plan to increase AI investment, according to a survey of 1,000 IT decision-makers commissioned by China's Alibaba Cloud and conducted by NielsenIQ.

China's technology giant Huawei has launched four AI data center infrastructure solutions in Malaysia targeting power supply, power protection, energy storage, and cooling.