APAC M&A volumes are flat YoY, but the headline numbers don’t tell the full story. 37% of regional deal volumes involve a target or acquirer outside APAC vs 21% globally. Barclays’ Cathal Deasy examines the cross-border dynamics shaping the market.

Apache Iceberg is now generally available in Palantir AIP. Sovereignty at all levels of the stack. Customers can now use an open, interoperable table format alongside the capabilities required to operate critical data: pipeline building, governance, security, lineage, and Ontology. The full open standard, not some Palantir variant of it...... THE FULL OPEN STANDARD. Managed Iceberg tables and Palantir’s Iceberg REST catalog are GA on standard Foundry enterprise environments. Tables can be stored in Palantir managed storage or a customer-provided bucket. This means one bucket (yours, ours or theirs), one iceberg file, Palantir and your other Iceberg enabled systems working on the same physical file. Zero Data Copy. Teams can build pipelines, perform row-level updates and changelog processing, create Ontology object types backed by Iceberg, analyze tables in with SQL, python or connect external tools directly to the catalog. Completely open. Adopting and supporting an open standard means more than consuming it. Our FDEs have also contributed back to the Iceberg standard to enable features we had built in Foundry but now is available as part of the standard for all, just a few examples: - Table encryption in iceberg-rust - Incremental append scans, schema evolution, and other Iceberg features in Polars - Incremental append scans and other contributions to PyIceberg More about some of the new value add: and

APAC is where stablecoins are scaling fastest. At Stripe Tour Singapore, @Hassan_NY, our Country Director, joined leaders from @Stablecoin, @stripe and @latershq to discuss how stablecoins are becoming critical infrastructure for global commerce. Asia accounted for 60% of stablecoin payments last year, putting APAC in a unique position to drive adoption across diverse currencies, jurisdictions, payment systems and markets. Thanks to @stripe for a fantastic event and for creating space to explore the future of payments, revenue models and more.

Apac, in northern Uganda, is known for having the highest rate of mosquito bites in the world. But there's good news for this hard-hit region: early indicators suggest that the new malaria vaccine is blunting the severity of the malaria infections the mosquitoes are spreading. The full story: #WorldMosquitoDay#