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UNODC estimates financial losses between $18B and $37B from scams in East and Southeast Asia in 2023

UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has on Monday estimated financial losses between US $18 billion and $37 billion from scams targeting victims in East and Southeast Asia in 2023 alone, with a high proportion of these losses attributed to scams committed by organized crime groups in Southeast Asia.

MDEC & martech web3 firm Emerge Group form strategic partnership to propel Malaysia as a Web3 gaming hub in SE Asia

EMERGE Group will leverage its extensive network of Web3 gaming partnerships, including collaborations with Gala Games, Immutable X, TZ APAC, Sei and other leading Web3 gaming projects, to identify synergies and advance Web3 game publishing.

Tracxn : SEA tech startups funding plunges 59 percent in first nine months of 2024

Southeast Asia (SEA) tech startups funding plunge 59 percent in the first nine months of 2024 amid global challenges, a report said Friday.

ASEAN GenAI sector funding seen to grow 50 percent year-over-year in 2025

GenAI Fund, through its latest report, has projected the funding for ASEAN generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) sector to increase 50 percent year-over-year in 2025.

Filipino fintech firm Salmon completes $30M Series A-2 financing round

Salmon intends to allocate a portion of the proceeds to strengthen the capital base of the Rural Bank of Sta. Rosa (Laguna), with plans to increase the bank's total capital to PHP 1.2 billion by the end of 2025.

US investment firm BlackRock sees growth in Asian infrastructure on AI boom – report

The surge in electricity demand is outrunning the available power supply in many parts of the world, leading to growing concerns of outages and price increases for the most data center dense regions, Bloomberg reported.

Singapore’s audax Financial Technology and Synpulse establish strategic partnership

This joint solution provides a dual-mode approach to banking infrastructure modernisation, designed to seamlessly coexist alongside the existing infrastructure of incumbent financial institutions.

Maybank expects ASEAN data center market to reach $11 billion per year till 2028

Maybank Investment Bank said Tuesday that it expects data center demand in ASEAN to increase at 20 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) and a potential data center total addressable market (TAM) of $11 billion per year till 2028.

Mox Capital announces strategic support for rapid-scaling startups across Vietnam and Southeast Asia

Mox Capital, venture capital firm based in the United States, has announced its strategic support for a vast array and variety of regional high-potential startups across Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

J&T Express sees strong growth in 9.9 mega sales, continues to ramp up investments & network enhancements across SE Asia

To meet growing demand and peak season volumes, J&T Express said it has continued to ramp up its local investments and network enhancements across Southeast Asia.