Mynt, the Philippine fintech company backed by China's Ant Group, is eyeing a further round of fundraising to secure a $1 billion valuation as the race for scale intensifies in the country's ... ( read original story ...)
Karandaaz Launches Data Portal on Pakistan’s Financial Indicators
The portal is interactive, intuitive, visually appealing and easy to navigate. It also offers the capability to generate bespoke data dashboards and has filtering and layering functionality. ( read original story ...)
The Modi government needs to fix India’s job crisis to fix the economy
As finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman prepares to announce India's union budget for fiscal 2021-22 on Feb. 1, she could tackle a myriad of issues by relentlessly focusing on solving the unemployment ... ( read original story ...)
China’s Jack Ma emerges for first time since Ant crackdown
Billionaire founder of tech giants Alibaba and Ant Group had not been seen since regulators blocked Ant’s record IPO. ( read original story ...)
More money is expected to flow into Hong Kong in 2021: Fund manager
Yang Liu of Atlantis Investment Management says that the strong China economy and sufficient liquidity are boosting momentum of buying in Hong Kong stock market similar to what happened in 2017. ( read original story ...)
Bahrain in top 50 for online business setup
When it comes to the best places for setting up an online business, the Kingdom of Bahrain does pretty well considering the global completion. It ranks 38 out of 99 countries, according to Best ... ( read original story ...)
National Energy Services Reunited Corp. Announces Testing Services Contract Award in Kuwait
With the award of this contract, we are very proud to enter the Evaluation market in Kuwait and are committed to providing superior quality services, as well as an outstanding level of expertise and ... ( read original story ...)
Kuwait National Petroleum Company Workers Submitted Collective Resignations
Qabas daily on a flurry of resignations at the (KNPC), the daily quoting reliable sources say the Executive Vice-President of the KNPC at Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery, Fahad Al-Daihani, the Executive Vice- ... ( read original story ...)
BIRD – Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial R&D Foundation to invest $7.45 million in eight new projects
During its meeting on December 22, 2020, held via video conference, the Board of Governors of the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation approved $7.45 million in ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s investment commitments in 2020 meets medium-term goals despite challenging business environment
Some S$17.2 billion in fixed asset investments (FAI) were made in Singapore last year, far exceeding the S$8 to S$10 billion that had been forecast, the republic’s Economic Development Board (EDB) ... ( read original story ...)