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Grab said it will issue convertible bonds that mature in June 2030, partly to fund potential acquisitions.

Grab has held on-and-off talks with GoTo for years, according to earlier media reports. But a merger never materialized, partially due to antitrust concerns likely to arise from combining Southeast Asia’s two dominant ride-hailing and food-delivery groups.

GoTo Group, the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia, and Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced Thursday the successful migration of GoTo Financial’s infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud’s data centers in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Danantara has started preliminary discussions with GoTo to acquire a minority stake in a combined entity, according to people familiar with the matter, the report said.

Indonesian tech firm PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia Tbk (GoTo) and telecommunication company Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison have announced the latest advancement in Indonesia's open-source large language model (LLM) ecosystem with the launch of Sahabat-AI's 70-billion parameter model and multilingual chat service.

While there have been numerous media reports of a potential merger between Grab and GoTo, analyst has seen a real risk of the regulator objecting to a Grab-Gojek merger in Singapore.

Grab Co-Founder and CEO Anthony Tan declined to comment to TNGlobal's query on Grab-GoTo merger news when asked at GrabX event in Singapore last month.

Indonesia-based PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia Tbk (GoTo), the parent company of Gojek and Tokopedia, has announced the resignation of members of its Board of Directors and Board of Commissioners.

PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia Tbk, the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia, announced Tuesday that it reached record adjusted EBITDA in its Fintech and On-Demand Services units, as well as sustained year-on-year (y-o-y) core gross transaction value (GTV) growth, highlighting GoTo's strong product mix and strategic execution across its integrated ecosystem.

While there have been numerous media reports in the past weeks of a potential merger between Grab and GoTo, Maybank Investment Bank opined that acquisition of Gojek would be the most favorable scenario for Grab, leading to maximum synergies while preserving balance sheet strength.