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GlobalFoundries (GF) announced Monday the acquisition of Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), a silicon photonics foundry based in Singapore, marking a pivotal step in GF’s strategy to advance innovation and its leadership in silicon photonics.

Payment gateway startup Payrex is teaming up with Billease, the Philippines’ Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) platform, to make flexible payment options available to thousands of online and offline merchants through a single API integration.

BENEFIT and Singapore-based technology company MonetaGo, in collaboration with Bahrain FinTech Bay (BFB), have embarked on the implementation phase of Bahrain’s National Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Initiative to develop a digital ledger for all financed trade transactions and invoice submissions creating an alternative data credit score to…

Selling a company that someone has worked hard to build from scratch isn’t a one-off event. It takes significant preparation and planning to get there. Even founders need to be emotionally ready to let go, but how can they focus on easing that attachment if they’re bombarded with endless tasks to ensure a smooth transition?

Swiss multinational investment bank UBS has entered a strategic partnership with Ant International, a Singapore-based digital payment firm, to explore innovations in blockchain-based tokenized deposits to support Ant International’s global payments settlement and liquidity management.

Princeton Digital Group (PDG), the Singapore-based data center operator, announced Monday its entry into South Korea with an investment of $700 million, its seventh country after Singapore, Japan, India, Indonesia, China and Malaysia.

Groq, a global artificial intelligence (AI) inference firm, has expanded its global AI infrastructure footprint to the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region through its deployment in Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Sydney, Australia.

Singaporean organizations are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) and Generative AI (GenAI), with implementation rates close to the APJC regional average, but their strategic focus on innovation is slightly lower than the APJC results, Dell Technologies' survey showed Monday.

Coins.ph, the Philippines-based crypto and digital wallet platform, and Best Way Corporation (FinFan), a financial technology company based in Vietnam, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a strategic partnership to streamline and expand cross-border remittance and payment flows between the two countries.

Vietnam-based electric vehicles (EVs) firm VinFast has signed a series of memorandum of understandings (MOUs) with Indonesia’s leading financial institutions to strengthen cooperation in promoting the country’s green mobility transition.