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LinkedIn,the professional networking and career development platform, has released its sixth annual Top Companies list for Singapore, identifying 15 organizations that offer strong opportunities for career development in 2026.

Singapore-based Ant International has introduced a new Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) to support the growing agentic commerce by enabling secure, AI-driven payment connections across mobile services.

Moody's Ratings has upgraded the corporate family rating (CFR) of Grab Holdings Inc to Ba2 from Ba3 and changed the outlook to stable from positive.

Accelerating distributed generation across several Asian markets has driven a downward revision to its on-grid electricity demand forecasts, as more supportive rooftop solar policy and persistently high retail tariffs erode grid-based consumption, BMI Country Risk and Industry Research said in its recent report.

British International Investment (BII), the United Kingdom’s development finance institution and impact investor, has on Thursday launched $1.5 billion new climate initiative for Asia.

Southeast Asia’s private equity market remained subdued in 2025, with total deal value declining about 10 percent year-on-year to $14.3 billion across 84 transactions, according to the "Southeast Asia Private Equity Report 2026" report conducted by Bain & Company.

Southeast Asia’s energy transition is being shaped by a strong tilt towards solar power and electric vehicles (EVs), which together captured nearly 90 percent of the region’s funding, highlighting both momentum and structural gaps in the ecosystem, according to a report by Tracxn.

Southeast Asian startups raised a total of $2.8 billion in the first quarter of 2026, a surge of 146 percent compared to $1.1 billion raised in the fourth quarter of 2025, and a jump of 110 percent compared to $1.3 billion raised in the first quarter of 2025, Tracxn said Wednesday.

The Asia Pacific region is expected to generate around two-thirds of the world’s new retail sales over the next five years, driven by a consumer base of more than 4.3 billion people, 18 megacities, and a rapidly expanding middle class.