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Google Cloud announced Thursday the appointment of Jennifer Ligones as Country Manager of the firm’s business in the Philippines.

Paydibs, a payment solutions provider in Malaysia, has announced its official onboarding by Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PayNet) as a Third-Party Acquirer (TPA) for the Financial Process Exchange (FPX).

MEASAT Global Berhad (MEASAT), a Malaysia-based spacetech solutions provider, has secured the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center’s (IN-SPACe) authorization to offer its satellite services in India through NewSpace India Limited (NSIL).

ShopBack, a Singapore-based shopping, rewards, and payments platform, announced Tuesday that it has been granted a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for digital payments.

Japanese multinational financial services group Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMBC Group) announced Tuesday it will appoint Ahmed Jamil Mazhari to lead transformation initiatives aimed at accelerating group-wide artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and integration.

Singapore-based fintech company Finmo has received approval from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to operate as an Authorized Electronic Money Institution (EMI).

Sunday, an InsurTech based in Thailand, is working with Salesforce, the global artificial intelligence (AI) customer relationship management (CRM) firm, to centralize operations, personalize engagement for over 330,000 customers, and scale their business using solutions including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Tableau and Slack.

BDx Data Centers (BDx), a carrier-neutral data center platform based in China, has launched Southeast Asia’s first hybrid quantum artificial intelligence (AI) testbed in collaboration with Anyon Technologies, a Singapore-based large-scale quantum computing systems firm.

NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore, has appointed Dr Patrick Ennis and Donna See as strategic advisors to support its next phase of growth in innovation and deep-tech commercialization.

Bunjang, a South Korea's customer-to-customer (C2C) secondhand marketplace platform, has reaffirmed its commitment to Singapore as a strategic growth engine in its broader Asia strategy.