SEA

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.

Malaysia & Cambodia launch cross-border QR payments connectivity

Under this linkage, consumers and merchants in both countries will be able to make and receive instant cross-border QR payments.

Malaysia’s MYEG partners freight forwarders to promote ZTrade adoption for cross-border trades

Both MYEG and FMFF agreed to work together on several initiatives related to the positioning of ZTrade as the NSW for domestic trade as well as cross-border trade to and from Malaysia.

YouTube & Shopee partner in Southeast Asia e-commerce tie-up – report

With YouTube Shopping, Alphabet Inc and Shopee will be competing against TikTok, the Bytedance-owned video app, which has increased its ambitions for the region after taking control of Indonesia's biggest e-commerce platform Tokopedia.

US-based Checkmate secures $1.6M seed funding to expand new markets including Southeast Asia

Checkmate, a provider of comprehensive pre-employment screening solutions that based in the United States, has secured $1.6 million of seed funding to expand new markets including Southeast Asia.