Singapore

Malaysia-based largest banking group Maybank is underwriting MYR 2.5 billion ($590 million), which is one third and the largest share of the biggest syndicated Islamic financing for data centers in Asia Pacific, to support DayOne Data Centers green data centers in the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ).

Singapore-based DayOne Data Centers has successfully closed its MYR 15 billion ($3.54 billion) equivalent multicurrency financing for sustainable digital infrastructure funding.

Grab Holdings Limited announced Wednesday the pricing of an upsized offering of $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of zero coupon convertible senior notes due 2030.

Aspire, a Singapore-based fintech firm, announced Tuesday its integration with Payboy, a Singapore-based payroll software providers, to streamline payroll management.

ClavystBio, a life sciences investor and venture builder established by Temasek, and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore's lead public sector research and development (R&D) agency, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to create and grow MedTech ventures in Singapore.

Grab said it will issue convertible bonds that mature in June 2030, partly to fund potential acquisitions.

Ant International and Deutsche Bank have announced their strategic partnership to provide more comprehensive payment solutions for businesses of all sizes in Europe and Asia, by combining their expertise and leveraging Ant International’s proprietary tokenization and artificial intelligence (AI)-based foreign exchange (FX) technology.

Arctic Wolf, a US-based security operations firm, has announced its official launch in Singapore, marking the latest milestone in its ongoing expansion across the Asia-Pacific region.

Hong Kong-based renewable energy (RE) specialist Clean Kinetics has announced it has raised S$4.3 million in a Series A funding round to drive its asset development and international expansion plans in the renewables infrastructure space.

Grab has held on-and-off talks with GoTo for years, according to earlier media reports. But a merger never materialized, partially due to antitrust concerns likely to arise from combining Southeast Asia’s two dominant ride-hailing and food-delivery groups.