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Singapore Singtel, Sweden Ericsson to jointly scale 5G, AI-native networks

Singtel and Ericsson have signed a five-year strategic partnership to expand Singapore's 5G Advanced capabilities, accelerate AI-native applications, and build more reliable connectivity for businesses and consumers.

UK’s Primary Health Properties expects £0.5B from Singapore’s GIC hospital venture to cut debt

The UK-based Primary Health Properties expects about £0.5 billion ($670 million) in net cash from a joint venture with Singapore’s GIC, a sovereign wealth fund, and will use the money to cut debt.

Japan’s SBI, Singapore’s Startale join Open Standard to explore yen-dollar stablecoin link with JPYSC, OUSD

SBI Holdings, the Japanese financial services group, and Startale Group, a Singapore-registered Web3 infrastructure developer, have joined Open Standard, an alliance backing the U.S. dollar stablecoin Open USD (OUSD).

San Francisco-based Horizon3 opens ASEAN headquarters in Singapore, backed by SG Growth Capital

Horizon3, a U.S. security company that sells AI-driven proactive testing software, will establish its ASEAN headquarters and a regional center of excellence in Singapore.

Singapore’s Aolani plans up to 500MW of AI data center capacity in Malaysia

Aolani, a Singapore-founded neocloud artificial intelligence (AI) firm, announced Monday it has signed Letters of Intent to take up 500 megawatt (MW) of AI data center capacity in Malaysia.

India’s Pine Labs sees Singapore as template for Southeast Asia’s unified payment push [Q&A]

Pine Labs has launched a unified payments platform in Singapore, combining payment acceptance, acquiring, installment payments, and customer engagement for merchants.

Google DeepMind, GovTech Singapore jointly develop on-device model to flag chat scams

Google DeepMind and the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) have developed a scam-detection model that runs on smartphones and analyzes conversations without sending message content to external servers.

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Tech firms demonstrate cross-platform trust for AI agents

GoDaddy, Infoblox, Google, Cloudflare and Singapore's IMDA have demonstrated an open trust architecture for cross-platform AI-agent transactions.

As AI moves deeper into auto finance, trust and connectivity take center stage

At AIMCONNECT 2026 in Singapore, industry leaders explored what it will take to make smarter mobility and financing work for consumers. Artificial intelligence is moving beyond answering customer questions and suggesting products. In automotive finance, the bigger opportunity lies in connecting the many decisions between an initial enquiry and a completed…

Fintech KPay gains Major Payment Institution licence in Singapore, adds online payments

KPay Merchant Service (Singapore), a subsidiary of fintech KPay Group, was granted a Major Payment Institution licence by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).