Indian Govt Caps Uber, Ola Surge Pricing; Issues Fresh Guidelines

Indian Govt Caps Uber, Ola Surge Pricing; Issues Fresh Guidelines

App cab operators, including Uber and Ola, must adhere to new fare caps and price floors, levy cancellation charges and ensure driver welfare, under...
Vietnamese Food Ordering Startup Lozi Raises Funds

Vietnamese Food Ordering Startup Lozi Raises Funds

Vietnam’s food ordering startup Lozi, which owns the on-demand delivery service LoShip, has raised a bridge round of financing led by Singapore-based Vulpes Investment...
SG’s 2C2P Receives Myanmar License to Roll Out Cross-Border Remittance Service

SG’s 2C2P Receives Myanmar License to Roll Out Cross-Border Remittance Service

Southeast Asian payment service provider 2C2P has been among one of five firms that recently secured cross-border remittance licenses from the Central Bank of...

Forex trading in the current climate

2020 has been an unusual and challenging year in many ways, particularly in global markets. Daniel Kibel, Co-Founder of CM Trading, speculates on the...

How to find the right Financial Planner

Take the guesswork out of your financial future by working with a Certified Financial Planner® Everyone looks forward to their year-end payslip because it means...

Investments: Local or Offshore

With the current market outlook, should South Africans be buying local investments or taking their money offshore? The current market outlook is stressful for South...

SAFPS offers key protection in consumer risk landscape

Following from the Experian data breach in August, ABSA – one of South Africa’s Big Five Banks – has experienced its own data leak...
Fidelity Invests in Indian Online Beauty Retailer Nykaa

Fidelity Invests in Indian Online Beauty Retailer Nykaa

  Boston-based asset management firm Fidelity Investments Inc. has invested an undisclosed amount in beauty and fashion marketplace Nykaa through a secondary transaction. With this,...
Indian Unacademy Raises Fresh Funds from Tiger Global, Dragoneer at b Valuation

Indian Unacademy Raises Fresh Funds from Tiger Global, Dragoneer at $2b...

Edtech platform Unacademy has raised a fresh round of funding from Tiger Global Management and US-based Dragoneer Investment Group. The company didn’t disclose funding...
India Sequoia Surge’s Fourth Cohort Startups Raise .35m Seed Funding

India Sequoia Surge’s Fourth Cohort Startups Raise $45.35m Seed Funding

Sequoia Capital India’s Surge has launched its fourth cohort of 17 startups that have collectively raised $45.35 million both from the scale-up programme as...
Indonesian BRI Ventures’s Sembrani Nusantara Fund Hits First Close at USM

Indonesian BRI Ventures’s Sembrani Nusantara Fund Hits First Close at US$10M

BRI Ventures, the VC arm of Indonesia’s state-owned Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), has announced the first close of its Sembrani Nusantara fund at IDR150...
SG’s The-Wolfpack Debuts with USM Fund Targeting D2C Startups in SEA

SG’s The-Wolfpack Debuts with US$5M Fund Targeting D2C Startups in SEA

The-Wolfpack, an early-stage startup fund in the direct-to-consumer (D2C) sector, has announced its launch in Singapore. Christened ‘The Wolfpack Pioneer VCC’, the US$5 million debut...