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The Series A+ round was led by Nikko Asset Management, with support from Peak XV, Prosus, Saison Capital, and founder Walter de Oude; the Singapore-headquartered firm has also been granted a licence for Hong Kong.

As the Israeli firm expands into Apac, Singapore retail investors can access stocks from over 20 global stock exchanges, ETFs, and derivatives, on eToro’s social investing platform.

Chuan How Tan has joined the international law firm, which is expanding in Asean, from DFDL Singapore.

French investment bank Natixis CIB has appointed Thaddeus Tien and Omkar Joshi to strengthen its Asia M&A push, with both starting in June.

Swami will become head of markets for Singapore and continue to serve as Citi's head of FX trading for Apac.

Xuanyi Liu has joined the global law firm as a partner this month from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Pei-Si Lai, CEO of GXBank, Malaysia's first digital banking firm, will take over from Muthukrishnan Ramaswami, who is retiring, at the beginning of June.

$400m has been allocated to support Digital Halo, which has assets in the Philippines and Malaysia; the Swiss PE firm is also expanding its data centre footprint in Australia.

Chan will join from Goldman Sachs as head of markets solutions for financial institutions for Asia South and Asia North in July.