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India's AscentHR acquires Malaysia's OS HRS to build a unified APAC payroll stack
AscentHR absorbed OS HRS's payroll operations across Malaysia, Japan and India, forming a combined compliance-and-payroll platform serving multinationals across seven APAC markets from Singapore to Korea.
Positive-sum angle: One payroll rail spanning seven jurisdictions strips out the compliance drag that keeps SEA companies from hiring across borders — lowering the cost of going regional for the next tier of firms.