Greater China
Meta announced in December that it was acquiring Manus.
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India
The licence will allow MobiKwik to launch a lending arm, Mobikwik Financial Services.
Paytm had obtained a limited banking license in August 2015.
The heightened scrutiny follows Meta’s more than $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus in 2025.
Rest of Asia
This is the first time Japan has moved to halt a deal since 2017 citing security concerns.
World
Sun alleged that World Liberty secretly installed tools to prevent the sale of his tokens.
The European Commission set a May 28 deadline for its preliminary probe.
Malaysia
Goldman helped 1MDB sell $6.5b of bonds, and collected an estimated $600m of fees.
The move builds on the SFC’s tokenisation scheme introduced in November 2023.
Hong Kong will roll out cyber resilience testing to boost banks’ response and recovery.
