Eurasia

The Access Group, a provider of business management software to mid-market organisations in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Asia Pacific, today announced further investment from its shareholders, Hg and TA Associates, with an associated enterprise value of £9.2 billion, believed to make it one of the largest UK headquartered software providers.

The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) sealed a pioneering partnership with Alipay+, a suite of cross-border mobile payments and marketing solutions operated by Ant Group, to enable digital banking customers to shop global. This makes BPI the first bank partnering Alipay+ as a mobile payment provider to extend its payments service beyond local merchants.

TOKEN2049, Asia’s premier crypto conference, announced high profile Title Sponsors for its much-anticipated Singapore debut. Taking place from 28-29 September 2022, this year’s event marks TOKEN2049’s first physical presence in Singapore, which will be held in conjunction with the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix 2022, ahead of the race weekend.

Thought Machine, a cloud-native banking tech firm, launched Vault Payments: a cloud-native cards and payments processing platform. Launching with card processing on Mastercard, Vault Payments has been built from scratch as a cloud-native payments processing platform – ensuring the platform is scalable, highly configurable, and can operate in real time.

ANEXT Bank, a digital wholesale bank incorporated in Singapore and a subsidiary of Ant Group, has announced its soft launch. The soft launch follows its receipt of MAS’ approval to commence business on 2 June 2022. The Singapore-based digital bank will focus on providing digital financial services to local and regional micro, small and medium enterprises, especially those engaging in cross-border operations for growth and global expansion.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) announced a collaboration, aiming to foster a robust Innovation and Tech (I&T) ecosystem in Hong Kong. AWS and HKSTP will launch programs under four key pillars to drive innovation of IT firms, startups, and researchers throughout the growth cycle – Research & Development, Technology Simulation, Co-incubation, and Talent and Culture Cultivation.

Vietnam’s robotic process automation (RPA) solution provider akaBot has signed a partnership agreement with Soroco, a global work graph platform. Under the partnership, akaBot and Soroco will join hands to optimize product structure and offer the best automation solution integrated with Process Mining and Task Mining to businesses worldwide.

Tecnotree, the global player of Digital Business Support Systems, announced the launch of its 5G enabled Digital Online Charging System (DOCS) solution - a cloud-native microservices-based convergent charging platform designed to cater to both current and futuristic monetization use-cases of Communication and Digital Service Providers.

Anti-fraud data sharing solution ClaimShare now supports the detection of possibly fraudulent third parties in potential duplicate claims fraud. The capabilities were added following feedback from clients, broadening ClaimShare’s ability to help insurers prevent avoidable losses.

Forsta, a provider of market research, customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) tech, announced the Human Experience (HX) Partner Program for Market Research Agencies (MRAs). This program will enable MRAs to offer clients white labeled, integrated Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs hosted on the award-winning Forsta tech platform.