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The oversubscribed fund brings assets under management above $850 Mn as the global VC investor expands its reach into emerging startup markets, with Singapore anchoring its regional operations.

The acquisition extends the Singapore firm’s digital identity business into cybersecurity for autonomous AI systems as enterprises confront new risks from machine-led transactions.

The corporate advisory and principal investment arm of Australia’s Macquarie Group has acquired an equity stake in the Singapore-headquartered developer, targeting surging demand for AI and cloud computing infrastructure across major APAC markets.

HSBC has doubled down on Hong Kong with a $13.6 Bn Hang Seng commitment, while assigning Singapore a global AI mandate spanning wealth, treasury and payments, underscoring how the bank is dividing capital and future-facing capabilities between its two key Asian hubs.

OpenAI and Meta contracts anchor Australia’s second-largest listing, but execution risks loom as five of the infrastructure provider’s seven “AI factories” remain under development.

The data centre operator’s first public filing shows explosive growth, improving adjusted EBITDA margins and a business increasingly built around Malaysia, along with $4.9 Bn of debt and heavy reliance on one customer.

Its first external round, led by Jungle Ventures, puts more than twice the region’s median Series A behind the difficult business of making AI work inside large enterprises.

The controlling shareholder paid about twice KV Asia’s 2021 price to reclaim the stake, backing a premium push even as profits fell.

The Singapore-based executive will lead Meta’s advertising teams in six ASEAN markets as the company bets on AI and messaging for growth, weeks after its India and Southeast Asia chief left for OpenAI

The tech consolidation aims to address healthcare labour shortfalls across Asia-Pacific markets via integrated WhatsApp automation infrastructure.

The SC Capital founder’s newly acquired operator is taking its spa-inclusive model inland to Vietnam’s Central Highlands, where Da Lat’s airport has reopened and Singapore flights are scheduled.

The Singapore state investor is moving from partnerships to an on-the-ground presence in the Gulf, where its portfolio companies can also use the new offices as regional hubs.

The Singapore start-up’s passage to Japan shows how AI is moving from investment research into the machinery of active fund management.

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.

MAS has now committed S$5.4 Bn of a S$6.5 Bn programme designed to pull more institutional money into local stocks. The tougher question is whether stronger trading can become durable liquidity for companies beyond Singapore’s biggest names.

The Taiwanese-Dutch joint venture is adding 300mm manufacturing capacity in Singapore for analogue, power management and interposer technologies, betting that AI’s move into cars, factories and machines will broaden semiconductor demand beyond advanced processors.

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.

The new national branding arrives with fresh R&D partnerships involving Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, KLA and STATS ChipPAC as Singapore tries to turn its manufacturing base into a larger research and commercialisation engine.

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.

The US diagnostics heavyweight has bought into a seven-market lab network, a move meant to bring more advanced genomic testing within the reach of doctors in Singapore and Malaysia.

The Japanese financial group has joined the payments company’s $25 Mn funding round as it builds exposure across stablecoin issuance, regulated digital assets and payment infrastructure, linking Japan with Southeast Asia.