Indonesia’s leading e-commerce portal Tokopedia said on December 12 it has raised $1.1 billion in funding from investors including Japanese tech holding SoftBank’s Vision...
The Myanmar government has now confirmed that it will open its first-ever professional stock exchange, the Yangon Stock Exchange (YSE), in October this year...
Myanmar’s central bank confirmed it will continue to take a measured approach to economic liberalisation, despite facing criticism that the country is taking too...
Mobile phone banking has already transformed the provision of financial services in emerging markets such as Kenya, Mexico and even remote and poverty-stricken Papua...
Malaysia’s outsourcing industry achieved a higher overall revenue of $490 million last year as compared to $385 million in 2012 from overseas outsourcing opportunities...
Thailand's Kasikornbank (KBank) aims to target affluent customers in neighbouring countries as part of its efforts to push towards 10 per cent growth in...
Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos are the potential “hidden markets” of Southeast Asia for investment opportunities, a business study said, but they could end up...
Tech Mahindra, an information technology-business process outsourcing company based in India is expanding its footprint in the Philippines on the back of bright prospects...
DBS Bank, one of Singapore's three banking majors, announced on March 17 that it has agreed to acquire Societe Generale's Asian private banking business...
Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) will launch a fully Shariah-compliant Islamic finance operation in Malaysia, Japan’s Jiji Press reported on March 10. The...
The Indonesian government plans to require banks to follow more extensive risk assessment standards and pay a levy, the Financial Services Authority said as...