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Global fintech firm Airwallex hits a major milestone with its annualized run rate revenue (ARR) crossed $1 billion in October.

If the first wave of esports innovation was about filling arenas and proving global reach, the next is about building interactive, personalised, and trustworthy viewing experiences. Asia Pacific is at the heart of this shift. The region is home to the world’s largest esports audience, accounting for more than half of all global viewers according to……

HeyMax, the Singapore-based loyalty and travel rewards platform, has on Wednesday announced its launch into the Hong Kong market, marking its first international expansion and a new partnership with Cathay.

Organized under the Korea-ASEAN Digital Innovation Flagship Project (KADIF), the competition was jointly implemented by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (NIPA), the ASEAN Secretariat, and Cradle Fund Sdn. Bhd. (Cradle) under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) of Malaysia. The competition is funded by the ASEAN-Korea…

Ficus Capital, a Malaysia-based environmental, social, and governance (ESG)- and Shariah-driven venture capital management company, has announced that its Ficus SEA Fund has made an undisclosed investment in Global Psytech Sdn Bhd, a behavioral analytics firm advancing inclusive, data-driven solutions in credit scoring, talent development, and intelligent…

Brankas, the Singapore-based Open Finance technology provider, and INFOPRO, a Malaysia-based artificial intelligence (AI)-driven banking solutions company, are joining hands to boost smarter credit and digital transformation across the Southeast Asia’s banking sector.

Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB), a fully licensed digital wholesale bank regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain, has selected Fireblocks, the global enterprise platform for secure digital asset custody, settlement, trading operations, and stablecoin payments, to power secure wallet infrastructure.

LGMS Berhad, through its wholly owned subsidiary Applied Security Intelligence Sdn Bhd (ASI), has entered into a strategic partnership with Bridgenet Solutions Sdn Bhd, a CelcomDigi company, to deliver advanced cybersecurity solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large corporations across Malaysia.

Global artificial intelligence (AI) firm for energy Univers has announced the launch of the world’s first Global Impact AI Lab (IAL), in collaboration with AMD, Microsoft, and the National University of Singapore (NUS), and supported by the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore.

Malaysia-based highway operator West Coast Expressway Sdn Bhd (WCE) has adopted IOroad, Asia Mobiliti’s pavement monitoring and management System on critical sections of the West Coast Expressway (E32), a 233-km interstate controlled-access highway running along the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.