OceanBase expands APAC presence with Malaysia delivery hub

By Aarav Garg

OceanBase will open a new global support centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as part of its international expansion strategy, adding a regional delivery hub alongside its international headquarters in Singapore.

The Malaysia facility will provide solution architecture, technical support and customer service functions, with the company aiming to strengthen support for global clients while improving operational resilience and business continuity.

Evan Yang, CEO of OceanBase, said, “FinTech and banking institutions across Southeast Asia are facing a common set of operational pressures: elevated demands on system stability, growing compliance requirements, increasing pressure on cost efficiency and operational simplicity, and new demands as AI moves from pilot projects into production systems.”

The move follows OceanBase’s GO GLOBAL GO Programme, launched in October 2025 to accelerate overseas growth across products, services, sales and marketing. The company said it now serves more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including over 100 FinTech clients and more than 400 financial institutions.

Its FinTech customer base includes major e-wallet providers such as TNG Digital in Malaysia and GCash in the Philippines, alongside payment processors and other financial technology firms. Collectively, these customers reach more than 1.3 billion end users, underscoring demand for scalable data infrastructure across high-volume digital payments markets.

OceanBase said more than 60% of its financial institution clients use the platform for mission-critical workloads, reflecting increasing reliance on distributed database technology for core banking, payments and real-time transaction processing.

The company also supports multi-cloud deployment across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud, allowing institutions to manage workloads across multiple environments and jurisdictions.

Its managed cloud database service is available in more than 16 countries and regions, spanning over 60 cloud regions and 200 availability zones.

OceanBase added that its ecosystem includes more than 500 contributors and participation in open-source projects such as Apache Flink CDC, AWS Glue, LangChain, LlamaIndex and Dify.

The Kuala Lumpur expansion highlights continued investment in Southeast Asia as FinTechs and financial institutions seek resilient infrastructure to support rapid digital growth, real-time services and cross-border scale.