Recapping the top developments across our coverage of Asia this week.

A sweeping tax reform aimed at digitising Vietnam’s informal retail sector has ended up disrupting mom-and-pop businesses as well as startups supporting their digital transformation, according to ...

Instapay Technologies, a Malaysian pure digital payment platform, has announced raising $3 million in a Series A2 round anchored by an unnamed group of US family offices. The round was also backed by ...

SSI Digital Ventures has announced an investment in U2U Network, a Layer 1 blockchain project focused on DePIN, while Japanese corporate VC firm Reazon Capital has announced the soft opening of its ...

Micro Connect, a microfinance platform co-founded by former Hong Kong Exchange CEO Charles Li, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) to bring cashflow-based investing, a nascent model, to the ...

Pricing expectations in Southeast Asia’s private equity (PE) market have become more aligned, with inflated valuations now less common and a noticeable shift towards buyouts, according to a senior ...

Northstar Group is said to be close to finalising a deal with Ares Management in a potential merger that would absorb one of Southeast Asia’s oldest private equity firms into the $546 billion Wall ...

Global private equity investor Advent is said to be making a second attempt at raising an Asia-focused buyout fund with a target of as much as $3 billion, according to a PEI report. Advent’s first ...