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    • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
      Singapore
      Singapore courts local tech giants over ‘national duty’ to relist

      City-state pushes for groups such as Sea and Grab to return home after launching US IPOs

    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
      Singapore’s Grab to start selling map data to businesses

      South-east Asian ride-hailing and food delivery app to expand enterprise unit in drive to become profitable

    • Friday, 20 May, 2022
      Singapore’s Grab cuts losses as region lifts pandemic restrictions

      Shares in south-east Asian ride-hailing and food delivery app leap 24% after falling since Spac listing

    • Friday, 3 December, 2021
      Grab shares fall sharply after world’s biggest Spac deal

      South-east Asian ‘super app’ drops in Nasdaq debut after record $40bn merger with blank cheque group

    • Friday, 5 November, 2021
      #techFT
      Is ride-hailing finally a profitable business?

      There could be better days ahead for investors, but the wider sector still faces some challenges

    • Monday, 25 October, 2021
      News in-depthNikkei Asia
      Fintechs and traditional lenders do battle across south-east Asia

      Competition intensifies as digital services leapfrog legacy financial systems

    • Monday, 2 August, 2021
      Grab battles effects of pandemic ahead of New York listing

      South-east Asian company reveals slower growth as it heads for $40bn Spac merger

    • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
      Technology sector
      South-east Asia’s tech boom fuels record mergers and acquisitions

      Dealmaking hit $19bn in first half of 2021 as investors piled into fast-growing digital economy

    • Sunday, 18 April, 2021
      Grab co-founder set to dramatically increase voting rights with Nasdaq listing

      Anthony Tan will have 60.4% of the voting power while owning just 2.2% of the Singaporean tech group

    • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
      Brooke Masters
      Grab is lunging for the top of the Spac market

      This method of taking companies public needs reform to avoid another bust

    • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
      Lex
      Grab: superapp secures superior price Premium content

      Spac deal arms start-up in battle for dominance in Asia

    • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
      Singapore’s Grab to go public in $40bn Spac deal

      Agreement with Altimeter breaks record for largest merger by a blank-cheque vehicle

    • Friday, 9 April, 2021
      #techFT
      Grabbing the peak-Spac moment

      Amazon union vote fails, Ma’s frozen academy, meet the foggers

    • Wednesday, 7 April, 2021
      Singapore’s Grab set to list in New York in biggest Spac merger

      Deal with Altimeter Capital’s blank-cheque vehicle will value technology start-up at $35bn

    • Monday, 1 February, 2021
      Tech start-ups
      Grab upsizes term loan to $2bn on strong US demand

      South-east Asia start-up weighs US listing after interest from institutions including BlackRock and Carlyle

    • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
      Grab raises $300m for its financial services business

      New firepower comes as group faces an increasingly competitive landscape in south-east Asia

    • Friday, 4 December, 2020
      Digital banking
      Singapore grants digital bank licences to major Asian tech companies

      Sea and Ant Group among recipients as city-state shakes up banking system

    • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
      Gojek Indonesia
      Grab and Gojek each claim strength in merger talks

      Union of start-ups would be south-east Asia’s biggest tech tie-up

    • Sunday, 13 September, 2020
      Gojek Indonesia
      Gojek and Grab renew tie-up talks as SoftBank’s Son backs deal

      South-east Asia’s biggest start-ups consider merger as coronavirus lockdowns hit business

    • Sunday, 8 March, 2020
      SoftBank Group Corp
      Investors urge SoftBank to deliver Grab-Gojek tie-up in Indonesia

      Ride-hailing Asia unicorns are bleeding cash in fierce battle for market share

    • Tuesday, 25 February, 2020
      LexJapanese business & finance
      Grab/MUFG: no place like home Premium content

      Japanese lender involved in funding round is hoping Grab’s skills in managing a ride-hailing platform are transferable to e-banking

    • Tuesday, 25 February, 2020
      Tech start-ups
      Grab raises $850m to fuel efforts to outrun Gojek

      South-east Asia ride-hailing rivals have discussed merger but ‘casual talks’ stalled

    • Thursday, 9 January, 2020
      Anthony Tan
      Tech groups must address the digital divide in south-east Asia

      Grab founder argues that governments cannot solve the problem alone

    • Monday, 30 December, 2019
      LexDigital banking
      Grab/Singtel: hailing all depositors Premium content

      Finding a new earnings stream via e-banking is no easy ride

    • Monday, 30 December, 2019
      Digital banking
      Grab seeks entry to Singapore banking market

      Ride-hailing start-up partners with telco Singtel to apply for virtual bank licence

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