Lists Phillip Securities, Nomura Holdings, Integra Partners as shareholders
Goal is to connect promising new opportunities with capital, investing in alternatives Singapore based Alta Group (formally Fundnel), recently announced its acquisition of Hg Exchange (HGX), a private digital securities exchange.
The acquisition allows Alta to support the tokenisation and digital custody of alternative…Continue Reading
Existing investor DVE Sapta leads round, with Gamlite IT, private investors
Grow team across engineering & business functions, scale beyond Malaysia Asia Mobility Technologies Sdn Bhd, a leading mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions provider, today announced the closing of a pre-series A investment round of US$1.06 million (RM5 million),…Continue Reading
The United States reportedly is calling on the European Union to impose a semiconductor export ban on China – but Chinese officials and media doubt the Americans, simply by asking, can persuade the Europeans to give up a highly lucrative export market. Bloomberg reports that the Biden administration is urging the EU to share information […]Continue Reading
SEOUL: Across South Korea, events such as autumn foliage festivals and K-Pop concerts are cancelled, and grief-stricken communities are putting off gatherings after a Seoul crowd crush killed at least 154 people, threatening to crimp growth further. A major K-pop concert called Busan One Asia Festival, set for Sunday (OctContinue Reading
And as regional startup ecosystems develop, they may possibly chip away at some advantages that Singapore’s ecosystem and its startups have. Citing the likes of Vietnam and Indonesia, a World Bank report last year noted that Singapore’s neighbouring countries “have created their own startup ecosystems”, thereby increasing the regional competition. Continue Reading
NEW DELHI: Britain’s foreign minister has insisted during a visit to India that “a lot of progress” has been made in talks on a post-Brexit free-trade deal despite negotiators missing a recent deadline. “We have made a lot of progress in the negotiations, and we continue to work for an agreementContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Changi Airport handled 10 million passengers in the third quarter of the year, reaching 58.1 per cent of its pre-COVID traffic, Changi Airport Group (CAG) said on Saturday (Oct 29). In a news release, the group added that passenger movements for its largest source market, Southeast Asia, exceeded 60 perContinue Reading
This article was first published by Vanity Fair jointly with ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Toy Reid has always had a gift for languages – a gift that would carry him far from what he calls his “very blue-collar” roots in Greenville, South Carolina. In high school, Spanish came easily. At nearby Furman University, […]Continue Reading
BRASILIA: Brazil’s electoral authorities are preparing for a competitive election on Sunday (Oct 30) with a result that may be contested by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro if he loses to his leftist adversary, who has a narrow lead in recent opinion polls. Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), led by justicesContinue Reading
Poaching threatens forest biodiversity in Cambodia, Southeast Asian designers become environmentally friendly, Thailand attempt to tackle alarming flooding
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