Sanghamitra Mandal

In this conversation with Entrepreneur APAC, Golden Gate Ventures founding partner Vincent Lauria shares what works for cross-border fintechs in Southeast Asia. A Silicon Valley entrepreneur-turned-VC with global exposure, he says the harder reality is that capital often does not travel across regions, even when companies do.

The revenue needed to sustain AI’s build-out remains uncertain, even as the industry is already paying the hardware bill. Singapore and Malaysia are competing for a larger share of that spending.

The city-state is courting frontier AI, targeting adoption across 10,000 companies and building an AI-ready workforce. Now it wants the UN to write common safeguards before increasingly autonomous systems outrun the rules.

As supply chains diversify, the China-ASEAN corridor and Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone could redraw the region’s growth map.

As some of AI’s biggest names warn about safety and control, five Nobel laureates are heading to Singapore to explore the technology's potential for science.

Cornerstone investors have committed P36.5 Bn to Mynt’s planned listing, but four-fifths of the base offer is secondary stock, turning the Philippines’ potential record IPO into a fundraising for the company and a liquidity event for existing shareholders.

The Philippine fintech could make the country’s biggest stock market debut, but about 80% of the firm’s offer will come from existing shareholders selling down.

Aspire’s Co-founder and CEO Andrea Baronchelli tells Sanghamitra Mandal why corporate banking alone is no longer enough and how AI and agentic ERP are reshaping the finance stack for global businesses.

ALDI SÜD has acquired an undisclosed minority stake in DALI Everyday Grocery. But seven share-allotment filings, a Venturi top-up and investments made through different entities leave the Philippines-based hard-discount retailer’s current ownership unresolved in freely accessible records.

Grab already offers its BNPL service PayLater across Atome’s five Southeast Asian markets. The acquisition gives it a faster route to credit scale, underwriting history and funding relationships without rebuilding them market by market.

Josephine Teo underscored three AI commitments for Singapore’s 2027 ASEAN chairmanship. The trade tool its business federation is building in Jakarta answers the first, and arrives in the same quarter the EU opens to Indonesian goods.

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.