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Shopee strengthens support for Malaysian MSMEs with $11.83M funding
Shopee, the e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and Brazil, announced Monday the launch of the MYR 50 million ($11.83 million) Shopee Rai Lokal MSME growth package to further support Malaysian micro, small, medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs).
SHOPLINE subsidiary secures in-principle approval for MPI from MAS
SHOPLINE, the global commerce platform, announced Thursday that it has received In-Principle Approval (IPA) from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license.
CFM’s Climate Investor two fund closes at $1.07B, becoming the largest climate adaptation infrastructure fund in emerging markets
Climate Fund Managers (CFM), a climate-focused blended finance investment manager, announced Monday the final close of its second blended finance facility, Climate Investor Two (CI2), at $1.07 billion.
TNGlobal Tracker: Southeast Asia (SEA) monthly funding snapshot – September 2025
The SEA Monthly Funding Tracker for September 2025 reflected a sharp rebound in funding across the region. Total funding for the month stood at $230.6 million across 10 rounds, marking a 125.64 percent increase month-on-month (August 2025: $102.2 million) and a 58.72 percent rise year-on-year compared to September 2024 ($145.3 million).
Malaysia’s KWAP launches Malaysia’s first climate-focused investment fund with target deployment of $470M
Malaysia's Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan) [KWAP] has officially launched Dana Iklim+, Malaysia’s first climate-focused investment fund with a target deployment of MYR 2 billion ($470 million), marking a significant step forward in advancing the nation’s sustainable finance agenda。
Southeast Asia FinTech startups funding falls 39 percent on year in first nine months – Tracxn
Southeast Asia’s FinTech sector raised a total of $839 million in the first nine months of 2025, marking a 39 percent decline compared to $1.4 billion a year ago and a 56 percent drop compared to $1.9 billion in nine months period of 2023, Tracxn said Thursday.
Singlife partners Salesforce to launch AI agent for customer service executives
Singapore homegrown financial services company Singlife announced Tuesday its collaboration with Salesforce, the world’s artificial intelligence (AI) customer relationship management (CRM) platform, to launch an AI agent for Singlife’s customer service executives.
AI agents are gaining momentum in Singapore, but employees want clear boundaries – Workday
Workday, Inc., the global artificial intelligence (AI) platform, has on Wednesday released new global research that shows that while AI agents are gaining ground in the workplace in Singapore, employees still want clear boundaries.
Maxis partners Google Cloud for gen AI-powered conversational in-app assistant
Malaysian telecommunication firm Maxis has on Wednesday introduced Miya (Maxis Intelligence, Your Assistant), making it the first telco in Malaysia to launch a generative artificial intelligence (gen AI)-powered conversational in-app assistant in collaboration with Google Cloud.
Vietnam’s e-commerce sector shows highest optimism in SEA despite facing region’s toughest regulatory hurdles – Blackbox
Vietnam’s e-commerce market is demonstrating the highest growth optimism in Southeast Asia, even as it navigates the region's most significant regulatory challenges, a new report by Blackbox Research revealed on Wednesday.
