SINGAPORE - DBS Bank is looking to its heritage to secure the popularity of its mobile wallet in the increasingly competitive field of digital payments.
[BENGALURU] Stripe Inc said on Thursday it is raising US$250 million in its latest funding round, which values the payments startup at US$35 billion, a dramatic 56 per cent surge from a previous...
A STRICT seed-stage focus and building brands out of consumer trends are some of the investment strategies that venture funds will deploy in South-east Asia over the next five years.
DESPITE a challenging year for global financial markets in 2018, Singapore’s assets under management (AUM) increased further by 5.4 per cent to S$3.44 trillion, according to an annual poll by the...
VERTEX Growth Fund, the sixth and newest member of Vertex Venture Holdings’ global network of venture capital (VC) funds, has raised US$290 million for its inaugural fund.
LIKE any business, a small family-owned farm requires capital. Rice, corn, coffee and cocoa all require equipment, fertilisers and chemicals to grow and generate solid returns. Today, small farms...
[JAKARTA] SoftBank-backed ride hailer Grab is in talks to merge OVO, an Indonesian digital payments firm in which it owns shares, with an Ant Financial-backed local peer to build heft and power...
According to the World Bank Group's investment arm, the International Finance Corporation, the financing gap for SMEs in India is about US$230 billion and represents 68 per cent of the total gap...
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