Investment

Czech industrial group CSG takes a strategic stake in Calgary-based North Vector Dynamics, targeting NATO air-defence markets with hypersonic and counter-drone tech.

The Yantai-listed firm's digital senior care platform and wastewater wins pushed H1 revenue to $18.6m, up 238%.

China's dominant recruitment platform reports accelerating margins as AI-assisted matching and interviews move from experiment to commercial product.

Philips becomes the first healthcare company to issue under the new EU Green Bond Standard, raising EUR 650m at 2.7x oversubscription.

A natural gas developer and a compute-risk platform are teaming up to make data centre energy use measurable, auditable and financially differentiated.

A second consecutive top-tier Chinese rating cements Afreximbank's access to RMB markets as Africa-China trade finance corridors widen.

Four commercial schemes across Kinmel Bay, Conwy and Bangor will deliver 67,000 sq ft of industrial space via public fund backing.

Dubai's dominant parking operator and Bahrain's Amakin will explore platform integration and shared mobility data across the GCC.

A DIFC-anchored MoU opens Innovo's live construction sites to PropTech startups, targeting the Global South's urbanisation boom.

Singapore and Vietnam are racing to host AI compute capacity while Alibaba stakes $10.2bn on the infrastructure underpinning it all.

Record-high average balances and rising missed payments signal persistent affordability pressure across UK households.

The Czech defence group's 17% revenue surge reflects NATO rearmament capital flows colliding with advanced drone and hypersonic technologies.

Industrial-technology group CSG secures multi-region military engineering vehicle contracts, signalling sustained demand for NATO-interoperable land mobility systems.

Descartes pays $100m cash for Tai's AI freight-brokerage platform, expanding its Global Logistics Network across North American truckload markets.

Firefly's Pentagon-backed debris-removal design contract signals orbital sustainability as a defence procurement priority.

A $75m US Air Force contract anchors Kratos as the propulsion backbone for Boeing's long-range precision-strike munition programme.

The $514m contract option extends Parsons' role in US integrated missile defence as hypersonic and ballistic threats accelerate procurement cycles.

The London-based intelligence firm will stress-test its macro-sentiment platform inside TotalEnergies' six-month startup accelerator.

A Singapore-US joint venture will deploy an AI enterprise platform across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, targeting millions of underserved small businesses.

From DBS agentic credit tools to Razorpay's payments foundation model, Asia's fintech layer is rewiring around AI in a single week.