Investment & Financing
Seaspan Becomes First International Ship Owner and Operator to Access China's Panda Bond Market
SINGAPORE, Aug. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Seaspan Corporation Pte. Ltd. ("Seaspan"), a leading independent maritime asset owner and operator, is pleased to announce the successful issuance of a RMB 1.5 billion Panda Bond in China's domestic bond market. The three-year private placement note was is...
Global Times: SAIC-GM's 20-year renewal highlights China's key role in auto innovation and global growth
BEIJING, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese auto giant SAIC Motor and the US automaker General Motors (GM) have signed an agreement to extend their joint venture (JV) partnership by 20 years to 2047. Building on nearly three decades of cooperation, the renewed agreement aims to accelerate SAIC...
AXA XL to acquire S-RM, a global corporate intelligence and cyber security consultancy
LONDON, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AXA XL, which currently holds approximately 49% of S-RM, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the remaining shares of the company. S-RM is a specialist corporate intelligence and cyber security consultancy. Founded in 2005 and supp...
Immune Mediated Disease Therapeutics Developer Attovia Therapeutics Debuts on Nasdaq
SHANGHAI, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Attovia Therapeutics, a portfolio company of Qiming Venture Partners and clinical-stage biopharmaceutical leader, successfully listed on the Nasdaq on August 5, 2026 Beijing time. Attovia Therapeutics (Nasdaq: ATTO) issued shares at a price of $17.00 per sha...
Full Ownership of JJ-LAPP: LAPP Group Unifies Southeast Asia Operations
LAPP's largest-ever acquisition pairs global engineering with regional agility to drive Southeast Asia's next wave of connectivity. SINGAPORE, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- LAPP Group, a global leader in cable and connection technology, has completed its acquisition of JJ-LAPP. With this move, th...
Acrab Raises US$130 Million Series B, Advancing Agentic AI Compute Platform Commercialization
SINGAPORE, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Acrab today announced a US$130 million Series B financing round, with continued support from existing leading investors Vertex Ventures SEA & India and Vertex Growth, as well as participation from renowned institutional investors across Europe and Southe...
Quant Hedge Fund Alpha2Fund Announces 100 Million Yuan Proprietary Investment as 25 Hedge Funds Join July Self-Investment Wave
BEIJING, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ningbo Alpha2Fund Investment Management Partnership Enterprise (Limited Partnership) — a well‑known quantitative private fund manager (hereafter referred to as Alpha2Fund) announced on July 19 that based on its confidence in the long-term development of China'...
IIFL Capital partners with Flytxt to leverage Agentic AI for sustainable AUM growth
DUBAI, UAE, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Flytxt
Live Nation's former Asia Pacific President joins Triangle Group, following a US$15 million capital raise
Backed by US$15 million and three decades of industry expertise, Triangle Group
MONDEVITA ACQUIRES MAJORITY STAKE IN UNDERSCORE DISTRICT, PARENT OF MAGLIANO, IN SECOND STEP OF NEW ITALIAN LUXURY PLATFORM
MILAN, Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MondeVita acquired a strategic majority position in Underscore District, the Milan based brand accelerator behind Magliano, GR10K and multibrand retailer WOK Store. The deal is the second step in MondeVita's plan to build a new Italian luxury platform, adding b...
UOB advances wealth ambitions with strategic distribution partnership with Allianz Global Investors
Strategic partnership expands investment access and enhances UOB's advisory-led wealth proposition for customers across ASEAN SINGAPORE, Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- UOB Group has entered into an agreement for Allianz Global Investors (AGI) to acquire UOB Asset Management (UOBAM). The acquisitio...
Macnica Invests in Malaysia's Leading Digital Transformation Company, Orangeleaf Consulting, to Expand Digital Transformation Services for Japan's Manufacturing Industry
PETALING JAYA, Malaysia, Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Orangeleaf Consulting Holdings Co. ("OLC"), a Singapore-registered, Malaysian-founded digital transformation and enterprise software consultancy with operations across Malaysia, Japan and Singapore, today announced a significant new chapter in...
Farmmi, Inc. Proposes to Acquire Brazilian Agricultural Supply Chain Company
LISHUI, China, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Farmmi, Inc. ("Farmmi" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: FAMI) today announced that the Company has signed an acquisition framework agreement with the shareholders of FOUR SEASONS HOLDING GROUP BRAZIL LTDA. (the "Target Company") for the purpose of acquiring 1...
TNGlobal Acquires Jumpstart Media, Strengthening Hong Kong's Bridge to Asia's Innovation Ecosystem
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia and HONG KONG, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- TNGlobal (formerly TechNode Global), one of Asia's leading technology and startup media platforms, today announced the acquisition ofJumpstart Media, publisher of Hong Kong's renownedJumpstart Magazine. The acquisition marks a si...
YY Group Acquires 95% Stake in Profitable Singapore-Incorporated Distributor
Bolt-on acquisition expected to contribute to Group revenue and net income in the first full quarter following completion SINGAPORE, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- YY Group Holding Limited (NASDAQ: YYGH) ("YY Group" or the "Company"), an AI-enabled workforce management platform and integrated faci...
Sharon AI Announces US$373m Five-Year AI Cloud Service Agreement
NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharon AI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SHAZ) and its subsidiaries ("Sharon AI" or the "Company"), a leading Australian Neocloud,today announced that it has entered into a five-year cloud computing service agreement with a global artificial intelligence ("AI") plat...
SOPHiA GENETICS Enters Collaboration to Develop Companion Diagnostics for Precision Oncology Therapies
BOSTON and ROLLE, Switzerland, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SOPHiA GENETICS
JIJ Raises US$5.2 Million in Funding Led by Global Brain
Funding to scale enterprise optimization deployments, advance JIJ's AI-enabled optimization platform and quantum middleware, and accelerate global expansion TOKYO, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- JIJ Inc. ("JIJ"), developer of a quantum- and AI-enabled optimization platform, today announced that it ...
MGI Tech and NCSTAR Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Explore Bringing Multi-Omics Infrastructure under DCSP framework to Queensland's Spatial Biology Research
Collaboration, coordinated through NCSTAR at QIMR Berghofer, gives Queensland researchers a pathway to trial and validate MGI's integrated DCSP framework — spanning DNA genomics, cell omics, spatial omics and proteomics — locally, fast-tracking their translation into real-world research and futur...
PCG Global Closes Pre-Series A to Capture Southeast Asia's Fast-Growing Power Demand
GUANGZHOU, China and SINGAPORE, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- PCG Global, a clean energy platform focused on renewable energy infrastructure, has announced the closing of its Pre-Series A financing round, led by GenZero, a wholly owned Temasek platform focused on accelerating decarbonisation globa...
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