If you're an ops manager for a mid-sized 3PL in Kuala Lumpur watching competitors invest in warehouse tech, three updates from the past nine weeks are worth five minutes of your Monday.
Ninja Van (Malaysia)
On 2026-06-25, Ninja Van rolled out Zebra Technologies' cloud-native AC2 WAVE warehouse management system across its Malaysian delivery centers, paired with Zebra's TC2 mobile computers and ZD200 desktop printers. Scanning throughput jumped to 30-60 scans per minute per operator, roughly double the prior rate, according to the announcement.
That's the kind of number that actually moves the needle for a network serving close to 25 million recipients in Malaysia. A doubled scan rate doesn't sound dramatic until you multiply it across every parcel moving through every delivery center during peak season. A few seconds per scan is often what decides whether a warehouse clears its backlog before midnight.
The company also credited the ZD200 printers with cutting missed- or delayed-delivery complaints tied to unreadable labels. I'd take that claim with a grain of salt until independent complaint data shows up, since printer vendors rarely publish the failure cases that would undercut their own pitch. No transaction-fee or shipping-rate change came with this announcement, so customers won't see the upgrade reflected on their invoice.
Six outlets picked up the story, from Asia Cargo News to Pokde.net, which tells you warehouse infrastructure news still travels further than most people expect in a market usually dominated by pricing headlines. A hardware refresh rarely gets six separate writeups unless logistics reporters think scan speed is the metric that actually predicts delivery reliability this year.
Qashier
Qashier closed a US$6.125 million Series A+ round on 2026-06-30 -- roughly RM 28.8 million at current exchange rates -- led by Cocoon Capital, IFP Securities, and BlackSoil Global, with participation from strategic angel investors.
The disclosed numbers are the more interesting part than the round itself. Qashier reported US$1 billion in annualized payment volume across more than 20,000 merchants in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Monthly profitability has held since December 2025, and annualized recurring revenue is up 61% year over year.
A payments company staying profitable while still raising equity and debt is not something I see often in this market. Most fintechs raise because they're burning cash, not because they want extra runway sitting on top of a business that already works on its own. Qashier's pitch here reads more like a bank line than a survival round, which changes how I'd weigh the Series B tease later in the announcement.
The funding is earmarked for wider omnichannel payment tools, an embedded-finance offering, AI-driven insights and workflow-automation features, and deeper coverage for multi-outlet F&B and beauty and wellness merchants. Qashier says it's preparing a Series B round next, though no timeline was given. No pricing-tier or transaction-fee change came with the announcement, so existing merchants keep the rates they already have.
Kredivo (Vietnam)
Kredivo announced a partnership with DMX -- Dien May Xanh, part of the Mobile World Group retail network -- on 2026-07-30, covering The Gioi Di Dong, Dien May Xanh, and TopZone stores. The deal could extend to AVAKids, An Khang Pharmacy, and Bach Hoa Xanh later, according to the announcement.
Terms: BNPL and cash loans for roughly 20 million DMX loyalty-program members, credit limits up to VND 50,000,000 (about US$1,900), digital approval within minutes, and no down payment required. That's a large credit line with no interest rate or fee schedule disclosed anywhere in the announcement, and it's the detail I'd flag first if I were reviewing this deal for a client.
Kredivo is targeting triple-digit GMV growth in Vietnam this year. That number only makes sense if a meaningful share of DMX's 20 million loyalty members actually start using the credit line instead of leaving it unused in the app. Two outlets covered the partnership: Vietnam Investment Review and The Investor, both of which stuck to the announced terms without pressing on rates.
Retail-chain BNPL tie-ups tend to scale fast in Vietnam because the loyalty program already does the customer acquisition work. Kredivo isn't selling anyone on downloading a new app here -- it's riding an existing DMX login, which is a cheaper way to reach 20 million people than any ad campaign could manage.
Coverage note
None of the three updates touched an existing price. Ninja Van shipped infrastructure, Qashier closed a funding round, and Kredivo signed a retail partnership -- capability and capital moves this window, not rate changes.
I checked eight other candidates for this window and dropped all of them. Sapo's pricing pages were current as of 2026-06-17 with nothing new inside the window. KiotViet's last dated release was a mobile inventory-count feature from May, outside the window. StoreHub's POS redesign and Employee Activity Log both date to February and March. Haravan's most recent notes are from March and April. Ayoconnect, BukuWarung, Duitku, and Loyverse had nothing dated inside the window at all, which is worth flagging if you're relying on any of the four for active-development signals.
If you only read one of these three, make it Kredivo's. A VND 50,000,000 credit line rolling out across a retail chain that size, without a published interest rate, is the kind of gap regulators and competitors both tend to notice within a couple of quarters.