The Monetary Authority of
Singapore (MAS) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) launched the
BIS Innovation Hub Centre in Singapore in November 2019. This is the BIS’s
first expansion of its global footprint in 17 years.
The BIS Innovation Hub will foster innovation and greater collaboration among the central banking community...
The global economy is seeing signs of gradual recovery from the economic fallout due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The SBF-Experian SME Index for 1Q21 – 2Q21F registered an overall reading of 48.2, an uptick from 46.3 in the 4Q20 – 1Q21F SBF-Experian SME Index.
The Index – a joint initiative...
Across the Asia Pacific, the unprecedented mass migration of organizations' IT infrastructure to cloud and digital systems in the past year has compressed years of planned digital transformation into a matter of months – or even weeks.While this agility is impressive, the addition of countless new devices, networks and...
The recent global pandemic has fast-forwarded change. It has opened considerable opportunities for businesses to make a profit while at the same time it has increased the potential for crisis.
The reality is the evolving threat matrix of the digital economy, which is at the convergence of many factors: cyber...
Plug and Play has announced plans to launch a new office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to support the Future Malaysia Programme by sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad.
Its primary responsibility will be to accelerate the growth of the innovation ecosystem in the country by working with leading corporations and...
Founded in 2020, ServiceBack.com is a homegrown home services platform that is the first to offer marketing costs back to customers as cashback. SMEhorizon talks to Hakeem SA, one of the co-founders of ServiceBack.com on the problems that inspired his forays into this industry, the technology they use to...
Singapore Poultry Hub Pte Ltd announced in October 2019
their plans to set up the first smart and green factory for the poultry
industry in Singapore using a $40 million loan secured from United Overseas
Bank (UOB). The new factory is projected to help Singapore Poultry Hub improve
their productivity by 26 per...
Enstack and Dyna.Ai have partnered to build and deploy highly localized AI-powered solutions designed to help millions of entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia simplify and scale business operations more efficiently.
Southeast Asia's digital economy continues to experience rapid growth, with projections from Kearney indicating that AI-driven personalization alone could lead to...
SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) has partnered with IBM Singapore to launch a suite of programs in the emerging area of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These programs will enable Singaporeans to learn and apply AI in areas such as Human Resource, Supply Chain Management and Media. The SkillsFuture for Digital Workplace program will...
In a bid to provide a higher level of security to customers, Singapore’s DBS Bank has launched digital tokens for more than 200,000 of its corporate and SME customers on DBS IDEAL, the bank’s online banking platform for corporate and SME customers.
According to Raof Latiff, Head of Digital, Institutional...
