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Chinese firms entering ASEAN rose 50 percent: OCBC extends its Bank of Ningbo stake ten years
OCBC signed another ten years with Bank of Ningbo and kept its 20 percent holding, the maximum a foreign bank may own. The Singapore lender says Chinese companies expanding into ASEAN rose 50 percent in 2025.
Paid on approval, not in 100 days: OCBC and Doxa turn a signed claim into cash
OCBC, Visa and Doxa launched Singapore's first deep-tier construction financing. Once a main contractor approves a work claim on Doxa Connex, subcontractors and suppliers draw funds on virtual purchasing cards. Kimly Construction is running it across two projects.
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.
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.
DeepSeek’s API price quadruples Sunday. Peak hours are Singapore’s working day.
V4-Pro-0813 shipped on 13 August with a one-million-token context and an MIT-licensed agent harness. Three days later the promotional rate that put it into OCBC’s toolset and Indosat’s Indonesian stack expires.
Malaysian banks are funding Singapore's compute overflow: STT GDC raises $1.37B for a 166MW Johor campus
UOB Malaysia coordinated the green loan alongside OCBC, Standard Chartered and CIMB. Phase one carries 166MW of IT load at Nusa Cemerlang, inside the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone.
Malaysia's grid can generate power it cannot store: OCBC lends RM325M to its first utility-scale battery
OCBC arranged MYR 325 million ($79.5M) for ESS Bahau's 100MW/400MWh system, the first project financed under MyBeST, the Energy Commission's competitive tender for grid-scale storage. Operation targets July 2027.
The Fed held rates but signalled a possible hike, and the firmer dollar is the part that lands on Southeast Asian margins
Nine of eighteen Fed officials now pencil in a 2026 hike and the median dot has climbed to 3.8 percent; for any Southeast Asian business with dollar costs or dollar debt, the firmer dollar arrives long before the rate does.
Singapore's PixVerse extends Series C to $439M and crosses a $2B valuation
The AI video platform closed a Series C extension lifting total Series C to $439M, with Alibaba, Mirae Asset and OCBC's LionX Ventures joining. It counts 150M users across 177 countries.
Grok 4.5 cut coding-AI prices by roughly 80 percent. Where to point it first.
xAI, OpenAI, and Meta all cut inference prices in the same week, and the cheapest coding model is now roughly twice as willing to make things up as the one it replaced.
The biggest customer the AI labs have is quietly building their replacement
Microsoft began routing tens of thousands of Excel and Outlook prompts a week to its in-house MAI models this month. The question that leaves for anyone building on AI is not which lab to trust.
B2B payments platform XTransfer opens a Kuala Lumpur office as its Southeast Asia hub
Holding conditional Bank Negara Malaysia approval for payment licences since February, the cross-border trade-payment platform will route SME import-export flows through Kuala Lumpur, with Maybank, CIMB and OCBC present at the launch.