VEON’s Kyivstar Invests in Renewable Energy in Ukraine with Acquisition in Solar Power Company Dubai and Kyiv, December 16, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), announces that Kyivstar (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW), Ukraine's leading digital operator, has acquired 100% of LLC SUNVIN 11, adding 12.9 MW of solar generation capacity to its energy resilience investments. The acquisition marks Kyivstar’s first investment into renewable energy. Electricity generated by the solar facility will be supplied to Ukraine’s national grid in accordance with applicable market and regulatory frameworks. The acquisiti...
VEON Announces Release Date for Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2025 Results of Both VEON and Kyivstar VEON Announces Release Date for Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2025 Results of Both VEON and Kyivstar Dubai, December 16, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” or “the Company”), today confirms that VEON and its operating company Kyivstar Group Limited (“Kyivstar”, Nasdaq: KYIV), will release its selected consolidated financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025, on Monday, March 16, 2026. This date has been set in r...
VEON’s Beeline Kazakhstan Delivers First Starlink Direct to Cell Call in Central Asia Almaty, December 15, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), announces that Beeline Kazakhstan, its digital operator in Kazakhstan, has completed a field test and delivered the first-ever voice call through an app, as well as text messages, via Starlink Direct to Cell in Central Asia, successfully merging satellite and terrestrial mobile connectivity for another VEON market. During the test, Beeline Kazakhstan CEO Evgeniy Nastradin and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Art...
Both KT and LG Uplus did better at SKT’s expense, with the latter impacted by Q2’s outflow and 50% discount offered in August as a result of April’s cyberattack. The search for KT’s new CEO narrowed to 3 candidates – 2 internal and 1 external; we should expect to hear the appointment by March’s AGM. Although this creates some risk, KT remains one of our Top Picks in GEM Telcos for its exposure to Enterprise and value-up dynamic.
VEON’s Banglalink Receives Regulatory Approval to Launch Digital Payment Services to Advance Financial Inclusion in Bangladesh Dubai and Dhaka, December 11, 2025 - VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), today announces that Banglalink, its digital operator in Bangladesh, has received the permission of Bangladesh Bank to operate as a payment service provider - a milestone in the operator’s ambition to expand further into digital financial services. As a payment services provider, Banglalink will be able to offer regulated money transfer and payment services for cus...
VEON Recognized for JazzCash, Kyivstar and Jazz at the World Communication Awards 2025 London, December 10, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”), announces that it has been recognized across three categories at the World Communication Awards 2025, acknowledging the Group’s advancements in financial inclusion, resilient connectivity and digital transformation. JazzCash, VEON’s digital financial services platform in Pakistan, received the Gold Award in the Beyond Connectivity category. Kyivstar Group Ltd. (Nasdaq:...
VEON’s Rising Capital Markets Profile Strengthened by Inclusion in Key Global Indices Dubai, December 10, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” or “the Company”), today announced its inclusion in two major international equity indices, further strengthening the Company’s visibility and accessibility to global institutional investors. VEON has been added to the S&P Global Broad Market Index (BMI) following the September 2025 rebalance by S&P Dow Jones Indices. The S&P Global BMI serves as a core reference benchmark for institutional portfolio allocation, coverin...
VEON’s Beeline Kazakhstan Breaks Ground for Hyper Cloud Data Center to Offer Sovereign Enterprise, AI and Digital Services Dubai and Almaty, December 8, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), today announced that Beeline Kazakhstan has begun construction of the new Hyper Cloud data center in Almaty—an advanced Tier III-certified facility designed to anchor Kazakhstan’s sovereign cloud, AI compute, and enterprise digital services ecosystem. The investment positions Kazakhstan for the next phase of digital growth by providing domestic, secure, and scalable compu...
Greater China Strategy | Alpha Picks: December Conviction Calls Market consolidation slowed in November as expectations of a 25bp Fed cut buoyed sentiment. The HSI and MSCI China fell 0.2% and 2.4% mom respectively amid weak data and limited catalysts. While the upcoming Economic Work Conference may offer a catalyst to end this phase, we remain cautious, preferring defensives and oversold names. We add BeOne Medicines, HKEX, NetEase and Plover Bay to BUY, take profit on AIA, and cut losses on Ja...
Kyivstar and Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation Select Google Gemma as the Foundation for Ukraine’s National LLM Dubai and Kyiv, December 1, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), announces that Kyivstar (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW), together with the WINWIN AI Center of Excellence under Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation, has selected Google Gemma as the base model for developing Ukrainian LLM, Ukraine’s own national large language model (“LLM”), leveraging Google’s Vertex AI infrastructure for computing power. As a strategic partner in this project, Kyivstar will operationally lead...
EM Telco earnings season was extremely strong, and with 8 of our 10 picks reporting this month, our picks rose 6.8% on average in November and are now up 80% YTD. With Singtel having strongly outperformed, Bharti we swap the latter in for the former; this note also includes key news & other thoughts, to try to help investors generate alpha within the EM Telco space.
GSMA brings M360 Eurasia 2026 to Samarkand in partnership with VEON’s Beeline Uzbekistan and Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Digital Technologies Doha, November 26, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), announced today that Beeline Uzbekistan will once again partner with the GSMA and the Ministry of Digital Technologies of the Republic of Uzbekistan to hold GSMA M360 Eurasia 2026. This next edition of the region’s flagship digital policy and industry forum will take place for the first time in Samarkand on May 20–21, 2026. M360 Eurasia’s return to Uzbekistan for a s...
VEON’s QazCode and MeetKai Sign Agreement to Power National LLM Training and Local-Language Agentic Services Across VEON Markets Doha, Astana and Los Angeles, November 25, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), today announced that QazCode, VEON’s software company, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the sovereign AI firm MeetKai to develop and train next-generation large language models that will enable deployment of local-language agentic AI services across VEON’s operating markets. This strategic sovereign partnership is designed to accelerate...
Kyivstar Launches Starlink Direct to Cell Satellite Connectivity in Ukraine Today’s Launch Makes Ukraine the First Country in Europe Where Starlink Direct to Cell is Available to Customers Dubai and Kyiv, November 24, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), announces today that Kyivstar Group Ltd. (“Kyivstar”) (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW), VEON’s digital operator in Ukraine, has launched Starlink’s Direct to Cell satellite technology for its customers in Ukraine. Powered by Starlink’s Direct to Cell constellation, the service will enable all Ukrainians to stay conne...
VEON Commences USD 100 million Buyback Program Dubai, November 17, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” or the “Company”), announces that it has commenced the buyback program (the “Program”) announced on November 10, 2025. The Program authorized by VEON’s Board enables the Company to buy back ADSs and/or outstanding bonds in an amount up to USD 100 million. The final allocation between equity and debt securities will be determined by prevailing market conditions. VEON views the current trading levels of its equity as materially undervaluing the Company’s stron...
Singtel’s numbers were strong yesterday, but we now think Bharti is likely to outperform over the next 6-12 months, given how far Singtel has moved already. In a separate note out today, we are lifting our Bharti price target to INR 2,750 which itself drives an increase in the pt to S$6.2 for Singtel.
Greater China Company Results | Tencent Music Entertainment Group (1698 HK/BUY/HK$84.65/Target: HK$105.00) TME delivered strong 3Q25 results with both the top-line and bottom line beating our expectations. Revenue grew 20.6% yoy to Rmb8.5b, 3% above the street’s estimates. Non-GAAP operating profit jumped 25.2% yoy to Rmb3b, with operating margins edging up 1ppt yoy to 36%. Non-GAAP net profit rose 27.7% yoy to Rmb2.5b, beating consensus expectation by 7%, with net margins expanding 2ppt yoy to ...
Singtel reported a higher underlying net profit of S$1.4b (+14% yoy) in 1HFY26, driven by margin expansion from Optus and NCS, coupled with robust associate contributions. Positively, Singtel revised its FY26 OpCos’ EBIT growth and regional associates' dividend outlook. It also declared a total 1HFY26 dividend of 8.2 S cents/share, implying a 78% dividend payout ratio. BUY on share price weakness with a higher SOTP-based target price of S$5.20 as we narrowed our holding company discount (from 25...
Top Stories Company Results | ComfortDelGro Corp (CD SP/BUY/S$1.48/Target: S$1.76) CD’s 9M25 results were largely in line, with revenue up 14% yoy and core PATMI up 2% yoy on stronger contributions from recent acquisitions and UK contract renewals, partly offset by softer Singapore margins. Maintain BUY with a 4% higher target price of S$1.76. CD offers a 5.5% yield and is supported by its diversified portfolio and improving overseas mix. Company Results | Singapore Telecommunications (ST S...
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