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Singapore-based Ant International has introduced a new Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) to support the growing agentic commerce by enabling secure, AI-driven payment connections across mobile services.

Malaysia’s renewable energy sector is poised for a renewed growth cycle despite near-term weakness in solar pricing, supported by upcoming large-scale projects and evolving policy frameworks, according to analysts.

GXS Bank on Monday unveiled its GXS Biz Property-backed Loan, developed in partnership with Funding Societies, offering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore access to up to S$2 million ($1.57 million) in financing secured against residential or commercial property.

Cradle announced Tuesday the launch of Cradle Elevate, a new MYR10 million ($2.53 million) funding program and the Cradle Startup Accelerator Program 2026.

Rising geopolitical tensions and energy market volatility are beginning to reshape global data center (DC) investment patterns, with Southeast Asia including Malaysia emerging as a key beneficiary of a potential shift away from higher-risk regions, RHB Investment Bank said Tuesday.

SUNRATE, the global payment and treasury management platform based in Singapore, announced Tuesday that it has been granted a license by the Malaysian Central Bank, marking a key milestone in the company’s continued expansion.

Decentralized AI workflows, tight integration into everyday operations, and high-quality governed data are the conditions for scaling. But conditions alone do not produce outcomes. What converts them into measurable business impact including lower costs, faster decisions, and improved performance, is governance that functions as enforcement, not aspiration.

The tools to build fake identities are improving faster than the tools to detect them, and that gap is only going to widen. Every month that passes, the synthetic personas get more convincing, the scams get harder to spot, and the losses get larger.

Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) said Monday it will continue strengthening its artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G push through ecosystem collaboration and a joint innovation-to-commercialization pipeline built around real-world challenge statements, sandbox environments, cloud resources, access to devices and internet of things (IoT) tools,…

The Penang State Government has on last Friday officially launched the Penang Automation, Test and Equipment (ATE) Campus, a strategic initiative aimed at positioning the ATE sector as the next engine for Malaysia’s industrial transformation.