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SINGAPORE, Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ASEAN bourses are churning out initiatives to rejuvenate their capital markets; from Singapore's S$5 billion Equities Development Programme, Malaysia's Catalysing MSME (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) Access to the Capital Market Roadmap, and Thailand's Capital Market Attractiveness Initiative, broadening investor access has become an important enabler in their strategies.
To support the rejuvenation efforts, CGS International Securities Pte Ltd (CGS International) has been working to introduce more deals to the markets, such as secondary listings of Chinese firms in Singapore, and dual listing of Singapore-listed UMS Holdings' secondary listing on Bursa Malaysia.
The Group's Asset Management team in Singapore is further supporting this effort with the introduction of a new discretionary portfolio mandate. Named CGSI Ascend Access Strategy, it is designed to offer investors access to IPOs and secondaries traditionally reserved for institutional investors, and disciplined stock selection in recently listed equities in ASEAN and Hong Kong, targeting at least 50% allocation to Singapore. Through this, they can participate in ASEAN's growth story, as well Hong Kong's renewed strength as a leading global IPO market.
Strong Asset Management Team with Regional Expertise
CGS International's seasoned Asset Management team comprises:
- James Ong, Group Head of Asset Management, an industry veteran with 29 years of proven track record in asset management, strategic planning and governance.
- Phua Zhenghao, Group Head of Investments, with over 15 years of investment experience in leading multi-asset portfolios in global institutions, consistently delivering tactical outperformance.
- Grace Yan, Senior Portfolio Manager, has more than 17 years of expertise in Asia's (ex-Japan) small- and mid-cap equities, built on a career that spans portfolio management and fundamental equity research.
Together, the team brings institutional-grade discipline and regional insight to every allocation. It will leverage the research depth of CGS International's award-winning research teams in Asia and deep regional presence and connectivity to provide an end-to-end perspective few other firms can provide.
James said, "CGS International is expanding our regional investment capabilities to give our clients access to rising opportunities in both public and private spaces in Asia. Starting with the CGSI Ascend Access Strategy, we provide regional expertise to broaden public market access, and independent governance through the appointment of equities market veteran, Chew Sutat, as Chair of the Investment Committee. Our highly experienced team is well-placed to provide high-conviction deal participation, alpha from recently listed equities, disciplined risk management and dynamic capital preservation, as we introduce more products for our investors in the future."
About CGS International Securities
CGS International Securities Pte. Ltd. ("CGS International") is an award-winning and market leading integrated financial services provider, ranked among the top securities houses in Asia.
CGS International taps on our wealth of global and ASEAN insights to offer equities trading, leveraged products, wealth management, investment banking, equities research, Shariah-compliant financing, fixed income, currency and commodities, structured products and prime brokerage services in over 15 countries and regions.
Along with its parent organisation China Galaxy Securities, a leading securities house in China, CGS International is trusted by close to 18 million customers globally.
Find out more at www.cgsi.com.
SINGAPORE, Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ASEAN bourses are churning out initiatives to rejuvenate their capital markets; from Singapore's S$5 billion Equities Development Programme, Malaysia's Catalysing MSME (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) Access to the Capital Market Roadmap, and Thailand's Capital Market Attractiveness Initiative, broadening investor access has become an important enabler in their strategies.
To support the rejuvenation efforts, CGS International Securities Pte Ltd (CGS International) has been working to introduce more deals to the markets, such as secondary listings of Chinese firms in Singapore, and dual listing of Singapore-listed UMS Holdings' secondary listing on Bursa Malaysia.
The Group's Asset Management team in Singapore is further supporting this effort with the introduction of a new discretionary portfolio mandate. Named CGSI Ascend Access Strategy, it is designed to offer investors access to IPOs and secondaries traditionally reserved for institutional investors, and disciplined stock selection in recently listed equities in ASEAN and Hong Kong, targeting at least 50% allocation to Singapore. Through this, they can participate in ASEAN's growth story, as well Hong Kong's renewed strength as a leading global IPO market.
Strong Asset Management Team with Regional Expertise
CGS International's seasoned Asset Management team comprises:
- James Ong, Group Head of Asset Management, an industry veteran with 29 years of proven track record in asset management, strategic planning and governance.
- Phua Zhenghao, Group Head of Investments, with over 15 years of investment experience in leading multi-asset portfolios in global institutions, consistently delivering tactical outperformance.
- Grace Yan, Senior Portfolio Manager, has more than 17 years of expertise in Asia's (ex-Japan) small- and mid-cap equities, built on a career that spans portfolio management and fundamental equity research.
Together, the team brings institutional-grade discipline and regional insight to every allocation. It will leverage the research depth of CGS International's award-winning research teams in Asia and deep regional presence and connectivity to provide an end-to-end perspective few other firms can provide.
James said, "CGS International is expanding our regional investment capabilities to give our clients access to rising opportunities in both public and private spaces in Asia. Starting with the CGSI Ascend Access Strategy, we provide regional expertise to broaden public market access, and independent governance through the appointment of equities market veteran, Chew Sutat, as Chair of the Investment Committee. Our highly experienced team is well-placed to provide high-conviction deal participation, alpha from recently listed equities, disciplined risk management and dynamic capital preservation, as we introduce more products for our investors in the future."
About CGS International Securities
CGS International Securities Pte. Ltd. ("CGS International") is an award-winning and market leading integrated financial services provider, ranked among the top securities houses in Asia.
CGS International taps on our wealth of global and ASEAN insights to offer equities trading, leveraged products, wealth management, investment banking, equities research, Shariah-compliant financing, fixed income, currency and commodities, structured products and prime brokerage services in over 15 countries and regions.
Along with its parent organisation China Galaxy Securities, a leading securities house in China, CGS International is trusted by close to 18 million customers globally.
Find out more at www.cgsi.com.
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CGS International Expands Regional Asset Management Capabilities, Introduces New Initiatives to Support ASEAN Capital Markets Rejuvenation
Multi-phase, multi-region rollout will deliver advanced AMD AI silicon and the open AMD ROCm software stack to frontier-model, enterprise, and sovereign AI customers across global markets
SINGAPORE, May 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- OneQode, a global provider of mission-critical digital infrastructure, today announced a collaboration with AMD to deploy AMD Instinct™ GPUs, as well as announcing plans to deploy AMD Helios rack-scale solution as the platform foundation for OneQode's global AI infrastructure rollout.
OneQode plans a phased rollout anchored by AMD Instinct™ MI355X GPUs in initial deployments and incorporating AMD Helios solution in the future. The deployment will run on the open AMD ROCm™ software stack, giving customers a standards-based, vendor-neutral foundation for large-scale AI training and inference.
The announcement follows OneQode's recently announced 110MW AI infrastructure agreement with Bitzero in Norway, and reflects the company's broader strategy to deploy high-performance AI capacity across Europe and Asia-Pacific. It leverages their existing cloud and telecommunications footprint deployed across 5 continents over the last 7 years, and will also incorporate their unique low-latency, sovereignty-focused product offerings.
OneQode expects to support a range of high-performance AI workloads, powered by AMD AI solutions, including frontier-model training and inference, enterprise AI, and sovereign AI for governments, research institutions, and AI-first organisations.
"Demanding AI workloads require high-performance compute, scalable infrastructure and an open software ecosystem," said Negin Oliver, corporate vice president, Business Development for AI, AMD. "AMD Instinct GPUs and the unifying AMD ROCm open software stack are designed to help customers accelerate large-scale AI training and inference with the performance, efficiency and flexibility they need. We're pleased to work with OneQode as it expands access to AMD AI solutions for customers globally."
"AMD is shipping some of the most compelling AI hardware in the market," said Matthew Shearing, Founder and CEO of OneQode, "The challenge now is putting that silicon in the right places - close to the customers, sovereign workloads, and AI-first organisations that need it. That's what OneQode does. We've spent nearly a decade building performance infrastructure across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the global south, serving the kinds of workloads where uptime, latency and sovereignty actually matter. We're aiming to be AMD's partner of choice for extending AMD Instinct silicon at scale into the regions that need it most."
"We're genuinely pumped to be working with AMD," said Joe Swinn, Head of Product at OneQode. "We've been deploying infrastructure at scale globally for seven years, including some blazing-fast AMD EPYC processor-based private cloud builds, and this is one we've been waiting for. The AMD Instinct MI355X is a serious piece of silicon, and AMD Helios is built for the kinds of AI workloads our customers actually want to run. The AMD team have been brilliant to deal with, and we can't wait to get this kit in front of customers."
About OneQode
OneQode is a global provider of performance digital infrastructure. With a vertically-integrated platform that spans cloud compute, low-latency networking and sovereign technology across over 30 datacentres in 5 continents, they enable enterprises, governments and performance-hungry businesses to run AI & mission-critical workloads at scale, across the globe. Learn more at oneqode.com.
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OneQode to Deploy AMD Instinct GPUs and Plans for AMD Helios Rack-Scale Solution for Global AI Infrastructure
