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The fourth partnership since 2019 expands into Australia and will use events, targeted promotions and traveller insights to sharpen Singapore's destination marketing.

The Japanese financial group gains an MAS-licensed platform as it looks to expand its exchange, stablecoin and digital-asset businesses in Southeast Asia.

Investors could receive a 0% corporate income-tax rate for as long as 50 years as Jakarta seeks to attract global banks, wealth managers and family offices to a new international financial centre.

Fintech start-ups raised $682 Mn in the first half of 2026, but excluding Airwallex, the total would have fallen 49%, while deal count dropped by nearly a third.

The proposals could limit foreign access to model weights and training data, restrict overseas production of Chinese-designed chips and subject strategic technology acquisitions to tighter scrutiny.

The Alibaba-owned marketplace has until October 20 to propose remedies after regulators found that weak detection and seller controls left dangerous products online for weeks

The alternative asset manager is backing a profitable automotive actuator maker as it seeks growth in industrial and humanoid robotics.

Jakarta has become one of 29 founding members of WAICO while two presidential regulations on AI ethics and a national roadmap await approval.

The Chinese startup’s 2.8-trillion-parameter model combines near-frontier performance with lower pricing, intensifying pressure on both domestic competitors and leading US developers.

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.

For the 6,000-plus operators that work with SPRIBE, that coherence has practical value.

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.

Today's technology conversation is dominated by AI: bigger models, faster chips, more computing power. But Kohn argues intelligence doesn't start inside the processor.

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 memory-chip maker's strong debut suggests investors are not abandoning the AI trade. They are becoming more selective about which parts of it they are willing to fund.

Capital Haus is looking closely at Southeast Asia through the lens of investment management, funds management, and media, rather than positioning the region as a straightforward advisory expansion.

Tencent could emerge as the biggest individual shareholder in Manus without taking control, as Meta's $2 Bn acquisition is set to be reversed following a Beijing order, leaving the AI startup independent and based in Singapore.

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.