Sanghamitra Mandal

Starlink's Vietnamese order book has opened under a regulatory exception that gives SpaceX full ownership but leaves Hanoi in control of scale, coverage and duration.

The AI start-up is regaining corporate independence from Meta, but its experience shows how national security rules are narrowing the commercial choices of technology companies caught between the US, China and others.

A public listing will test whether Nvidia's ecosystem funding is a genuine value creator or a circular financing loop.

The attacks targeted employees, not autonomous systems. But they show why identity, authority and pre-execution controls must work together as financial institutions give AI agents more power to act.

Singapore’s largest bank raised its 2026 income forecast after fees, treasury sales and trading income offset the pressure from lower lending margins.

The Singapore group expects $478 Mn in initial cash proceeds and about S$3.9 Bn in additional funds under management, while retaining an economic interest in offshore assets.

GIC’s 20-year real return fell to 3.4%, but the bigger shift is strategic: more equities and US exposure, broader AI bets and another $30 Bn for hedge funds able to navigate volatile markets.

The plan depends less on poaching billionaires than on persuading existing customers to invest more of their savings through DBS, while using higher fee income to offset pressure on lending margins.

UOB and S&P Global now expect growth above the government’s 2–4% range, though disruption around the Strait of Hormuz threatens feedstock supplies, shipping costs and the electronics cycle.

The M31 Capital-led round will support a platform that allows specialists and product teams to build, deploy and manage AI agents without coding.

The leadership of the sovereign wealth fund concedes that overvaluation in the AI market it is chasing is unavoidable, and that nobody can call when it corrects. Its own weakest stretch of returns shows what a mistimed conviction already cost it once. That's why the credit and infrastructure build-out reads less like expansion and more like insurance.

Tencent’s 10-year purchase from a Sulawesi agroforestry project marks its first carbon removal credit deal outside China, as Google and McKinsey also agree to buy credits from the same project.

The city-state's investment agency is still attracting factories, business headquarters and advanced-manufacturing commitments. But its bigger ambition now, emerging as a launchpad for world-class founders, AI labs and growth-stage firms, is the harder one to pull off.

The mining company has signed non-binding agreements with South Korea’s KIND and Hyundai Engineering, adding potential investment and engineering support to its Nevada project.

The blockchain firm signed a pact to explore public blockchain infrastructure in the Philippines, extending its government-linked digital trust push across ASEAN.

The South Korean firm makes the memory the AI boom runs on. It is coming to NASDAQ via an American depositary share sale at a market peak: record margins, a dominant position in AI memory and a trillion-dollar valuation. But the peak is also where the cracks are starting to show.

Named after his mother, the Shobha Dixit Fellowship Fund will support need-based aid for MBA students at Harvard Business School, extending a theme that began with Dixit's support for women faculty in STEM at IIT Bombay.

A new alliance with US-based Odyssey Space gives the Singapore materials startup a route into space hardware, as companies seek cheaper, faster sources of specialist carbon fibre.

SMBC’s corporate venture fund is building a Southeast Asian financial infrastructure play through startup bets and regional banking ties.