With the launch of its new fund, the Japanese insurer's corporate venturing unit has assets under management of $400m, up tenfold since its first fund.

Longer hours and better tech are changing the way people trade, and the way CVCs need to search for innovation.

Brazil’s central bank is great at working with innovative technology, and hopefully others in LatAm will follow suit, says Torq’s Thiago Iglesias.

After nearly seven years at BNP Paribas's strategic investment arm, founding managing director Thibaut Schlaeppi is leaving to co-lead Raise Ventures.

Palida Artispong is moving up at financial services firm Krungsri's corporate venture capital arm, promoted to acting managing director.

Razorpay has launched a fund backing early-stage B2B software startups across a range of industries, with up to $1m per investment.

One of crypto's most prolific investors, OKX Ventures, backs technologies that expand decentralised finance and cryptocurrency use.

The initiative, also backed by Thai family office VC Boon Ventures, will target blockchain projects specialised in Move, the programming language by Movement Labs.

Alphabet’s growth fund appointed Adam Naor and Monica Plaza as VP of business development and operating partner, respectively.