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Colter Bay launches AUD $100m Australian private credit fund

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Colter Bay launches Australian private credit fund with AUD $100m facility to plug an estimated AUD $25bn lower mid-market funding gap.
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Why women must be at the agentic AI table

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Women must help design agentic AI in Asian banking, or tech will hardwire old gender biases into the financial systems of the future.
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Building payments that work for everyone: Why diverse teams are the key to secure innovation

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Diverse, psychologically safe teams are proving crucial to designing secure, seamless payment innovations that reflect real customers' lives.
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Hitachi Vantara tops APeJ high-end storage rankings

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Hitachi Vantara claims top APeJ ranking for high-end external storage as enterprises boost critical data infrastructure and AI workloads.
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Tackling the top 5 sanctions screening challenges in APAC

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APAC banks face data gaps, false alerts and opaque ownership as they race to modernise sanctions screening amid fragmented rules.
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Hitachi Vantara tops APeJ high-end storage rankings

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Hitachi Vantara claims top APeJ spot in IDC's Q3 2025 rankings for high-end external storage, leading key markets including India and Korea.
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Marketing Society adds two marketing chiefs in Hong Kong

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The Marketing Society names Chubb Life and Driscoll's CMOs to its Hong Kong board, boosting APAC reach with insurance and agrifood expertise.
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Nuvola & Certis tie up on predictive security tech

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Nuvola Media and Certis partner to fuse AI-powered visual analytics with security ops, promising more predictive, data-driven protection.
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Unlimit names Michele Fung as new head of Asia Pacific

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Unlimit appoints Hong Kong-based Michele Fung as Asia-Pacific head to drive regional expansion in increasingly competitive payments markets.
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Pure Global unveils flat-fee model for device approvals

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Pure Global launches flat-fee device approval model from $2,000 a year, bundling AI-assisted registration and post-market support.
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Trane to acquire LiquidStack in data centre cooling push

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Trane Technologies will acquire liquid cooling specialist LiquidStack to bolster data centre thermal management for AI and high-density computing.
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Trane Technologies to buy LiquidStack in AI cooling push

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Trane Technologies will acquire AI-focused data centre cooling specialist LiquidStack, expanding its liquid and rack-level thermal management range.
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Teads, Samsung Ads partner on CTV homescreen reach

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Teads teams with Samsung Ads to sell homescreen spots on Samsung Smart TVs across seven key Asia-Pacific connected TV markets.
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Singapore & Hong Kong lead in AI-ready finance sectors

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Singapore and Hong Kong emerge as global front-runners for AI-ready finance, with banks rapidly scaling AI, cloud and security investments.
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HAESL taps HCLTech to digitise Hong Kong engine MRO

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HAESL selects HCLTech to build a new SAP-based digital engine MRO platform in Hong Kong, boosting traceability and real-time visibility.
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Older Asia-Pacific founders chase unicorn valuations

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Asia-Pacific startup founders are growing older but no less ambitious, with most over 45 and four in ten still chasing unicorn valuations.
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AI adoption surges in Singapore but strong ROI lags

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AI use is now near universal in Singapore, but few organisations can show strong returns as data complexity and security risks bite.
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Public safety LTE & 5G spend to top USD $6.3 billion

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Global public safety LTE and 5G spending will climb from USD $5bn in 2025 to over USD $6.3bn annually by 2028, SNS Telecom & IT says.
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Singapore, Shenzhen trial cross-border data platform

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Singapore and Shenzhen launch a blockchain-based data validation trial, starting with cross-border checks on business owners' credit reports.
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DayOne plans major 560 MW data centre near Helsinki

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DayOne eyes 560 MW data centre near Helsinki in Nurmijärvi, promising up to 1,000 construction jobs and 700 long-term skilled roles.