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Why is CapitaLand buying US$62 million of Singapore small-business loans from IFS Capital?
IFS Capital, the SGX-listed lender, sold a US$62 million (S$79 million) pool of property-backed small-business loans to a vehicle issuing four-year notes. DBS arranged it, CapitaLand Investment takes every senior note, and IFS keeps the slices that lose money first.
Swift built its own ledger, and OCBC just cleared the first Southeast Asian dollar on it
Citi settled live US dollar transactions with OCBC over Swift's shared ledger using tokenised bank deposits. DBS and UOB join later this month; the controlled trial runs July through December.
Being a foreign broker in Thailand stopped paying: DBS hands its baht client book to ttb
DBS Vickers Securities Thailand started contacting clients on 31 August to move baht securities, derivatives and cash to ttb wealth securities, with completion due by May 2027. DBS keeps its non-baht private banking.
1982 Ventures says early stage. It bought into a $5.4 billion Series B.
On sophrosyne, and the Singapore seed fund that wrote into a $400 million Series B led by DST Global.
When the agent pays, whose rails clear it? DBS and Stripe build for $24T of Asian flows
The two will jointly develop AI agent payment capabilities, opening DBS money movement to Stripe merchants and Stripe's embedded finance to DBS institutional clients. Asia's outbound cross-border payments run $13.5 trillion in 2025 and are projected at $24 trillion by 2033.
Who settles it when the buyer is an AI agent? DBS wires Stripe into its Asian rails
Stripe gains access to DBS money-movement and cash-management infrastructure; DBS takes Stripe's embedded-finance reach. Asia's outbound cross-border flows ran $13.5 trillion in 2025 and are projected at $24 trillion by 2033.
Washington can cut Chinese banks off dollar clearing. Iran won’t be the reason.
Bessent promised the greatest coordinated economic isolation in history. The one measure that reaches Iran’s last buyer is the one that spends the rail everything else runs on.
Grid capacity is rationed, so DayOne will make its own: $415M green loan, 20MW, hydrogen fuel cells
DBS, OCBC and UOB arranged a S$530 million four-year green loan for DayOne's 20MW facility in western Singapore, which pairs on-site solid oxide fuel cells with vertical solar and hybrid cooling. It opens in Q1 2027.
Malaysia's data-centre boom needed lenders, not landlords: AirTrunk raises $2.33B for 420MW in Johor
IFC and DBS anchor $2.325 billion of green project financing for the JHB2 campus, AirTrunk's largest single-asset raise and the biggest for one Malaysian data centre. Design power usage effectiveness is 1.37.
A profitable coworking operator, marked down almost 18 percent on its SGX debut
JustCo runs 54 flexible-workspace centres across 12 cities and made under US$3 million last year; the Singapore Exchange marked it down almost 18 percent on debut, and it was not the only scale-first listing the market repriced this summer.
Singapore's DBS extends $210M facility to Asia's energy-transition vehicle ETAFCo
DBS becomes the first commercial bank to fund ETAF — a blended-finance partnership under MAS's FAST-P initiative, managed by Clifford Capital — bankrolling coal phase-outs, renewables, grids and storage across Asia.