A study conducted by Microsoft Asia and IDC Asia/Pacific released findings which found that that organizations with AI expect to see 41% improvement in competitiveness in three years.
The study also found that more than half (52%) of organisations within the region’s Financial Services...
hoolah, Asia’s omni-channel Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) ecosystem has announced a regional partnership with ASUS, that enables their customers to make deferred payments. This marks ASUS’s first Buy Now Pay Later partnership in Asia, beginning at all ASUS physical and online retail stores in Singapore, with...
EDB New Ventures, the corporate venture building arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), today announced the launch of the Corporate Venture Launchpad (CV Launchpad). The $10 million pilot programme supports large and established Singapore-based companies in building ventures in new growth areas beyond their existing...
Despite being hit hard by COVID-19 in 2021, Indonesian small businesses still managed to outperform their Asia-Pacific counterparts in business growth, in part due to their high level of e-commerce adoption.
They are likely to maintain this momentum in 2022, according to CPA Australia...
Small and medium businesses need to jump on to the mobile payments bandwagon in order
to gain a competitive edge over larger firms.
A recent survey conducted by US-based financial services corporation Visa, indicates that
customers worldwide prefer to pay with credit cards or mobile devices. According to the
survey titled Digital Transformations...
Group President & CEO Datuk Abdul Farid Alias said that the Maybank Group will continue to place strong emphasis in operational resilience, creating digital solutions and supporting its customers to ensure their business viability, including the SME segment which is a critical component of the economy.
Financial services and banking services corporation OCBC Bank has launched a digital business dashboard for SME customers. Saving SMEs time, the one-stop dashboard gives a holistic view of an SME's business, transforming data from some of the most popular digital apps such as Facebook, PayPal, Mailchimp, Shopify...
With prolonged global trade disruptions accelerating the demand for digital services to strengthen supply chains, DBS has increased efforts on digitalising financing capabilities offered through trade platforms, potentially benefiting more than 15,000 SMEs across Asia by end 2022.According to the DBS Digital Readiness Survey, 97% of businesses...
Even as Singapore pushes to become cheque-free by 2025, cash cheques continue to be used by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), typically to pay staff salaries, get cash for daily business operations or pay vendors for services rendered.
While cheque usage by OCBC...
