CHINA:
1 Shanghai Conducts Phoneless Digital RMB Pilot
3 Alibaba plans to raise at least $6.6 billion via bond sale this month
4 Huawei expected to drop to seventh globally in smartphone production amid US sanctions: report
5 Chinese Video Platform Bilibili Eyes $2 billion in Secondary Hong Kong Listing: Report
6 Data centre operator Global Switch’s Chinese owners explore $11b sale
7 China’s AI firm Enflame raises $279m from Tencent, CICC, others
8 Warburg-backed Chinese car parking player Sunsea secures $100m in a Series B round
9 GL Ventures leads $28m funding in Chinese internet security DataCloak
10 Chinese’s open-source software developer, EMQ nets $23m
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1 India’s Early-stage VC Endiya Partners secures final close of $75m second fund
2 India’s WestBridge exits gaming firm Nazara, sells $68m stake to Plutus
3 TPG-backed Indian cosmetics retailer Nykaa E-Retail plans IPO at $3b valuation
4 Indian personal electronics goods maker boAt bags $100m from Warburg Pincus
5 FMO invests $10m in India’s fintech lender, NeoGrowth
6 Indian edtech firm Practically nets $4m in pre-series B round
7 Indonesian investment app Bibit confirms $30m funding from Sequoia Capital India
8 Indonesia’s edtech Zenius announces pre-Series B round
9 Malaysian social ecommerce firm Poptron lands $1m in seed funding
10 Singapore tightens rules for virtual payment service providers offering crypto
11 SG’s iSTOX, digitised securities platform, launches new unicorn fund
12 Singapore-based healthtech firm Lumiere32 closes $379k venture-debt round
13 Singapore fintech startup GoBear to shut shop, cites difficulties in raising funds
CROSS-BORDER:
1 Trump bans transactions with eight Chinese apps including Alipay, WeChat Pay
2 NYSE will flip-flop on delisting Chinese telecoms if US blacklist applies
3 Mirae launches $35m India-focused fund
4 Affirm fintech firm Sets IPO Price Range, Seeks To Raise Up to $934.8M
5 iLobby Rakes In $100M To Help Track Visitors
6 SG’s BeeNext backs Pakistan’s fintech Finja’s $9m funding
7 Goldman Sachs buys global cybersecurity firm White Ops
8 Genpact buys US-based data engineering and analytics firm Enquero
OVERSEAS:
1 Nintendo founder’s family office joins race to take over software firm Japan Systems
2 Nintendo buys Canadian game studio in rare acquisition
3 P&G terminates plan to acquire razor startup Billie following FTC lawsuit
4 Carlyle to invest $970m in Japanese analytical instruments maker Rigaku
5 Pokemon Go Niantic buys competitive gaming platform Mayhem
6 Hinge Health has raised $310M Series D at a $3B valuation
7 Divvy raises $165M as the spend management space stays red-hot
8 UK-based self-driving software startup Oxbotica raises $47m from Tencent
9 Chronosphere nabs $43M Series B to expand cloud native monitoring tool
10 Kyte raises $9 million to deliver rental cars to your doorstep
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