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...
GBG has released its Asia Financial Institution Study, "Combatting Escalating Fraud in a Digital World". According to the TABInsights study commissioned by GBG, Asia's top financial institutions (FIs) continue to be challenged by the expanding threat landscape in the past few years as well as the tightening of...
Despite weathering some of the most challenging times ever faced in their entrepreneurial journey, Singapore’s SME community remains undaunted, with three-quarters of SME owners saying that they continue to be ‘optimistic’ and ‘determined’ to face the road ahead.
However, in a sign of creeping...
Digital scams are everywhere in our daily lives. Whether at home, the workplace or on the go, we're inundated by phone, text and email with offers for "free gifts" and traps to "act now" to supply personal information before a vital service gets cut off. And this...
United Overseas Bank (UOB) announced on February 12 that its allocation of S$3 billion to provide companies, especially small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in Singapore with relief assistance to tide over the negative impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on their business.
In the...
Against the backdrop of slowing global economies, rising interest rates and economic uncertainties, the Singapore Business Federation (SBF), in partnership with DBS Bank, held the annual flagship Seminar on Business Outlook 2023 on Wednesday 18 January to help Singapore businesses better capture opportunities and sustain broad-based growth.
Small Medium Enterprise Development Bank Malaysia Berhad (SME Bank), an agency under the Ministry of Entrepreneur Development inked two Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) and Commerce.Asia respectively to complement SME Bank’s transformation agenda. Through the partnership, SME Bank aims to create the National...
In recent years, the Southeast Asian financial industry has been witnessing radical changes due to the numerous innovations driven by fintech companies to improve financial services. According to a study conducted by Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company, the region's emerging economies will likely reach a combined...
PropertyGuru, announced on 12 March its expansion into home finance with the launch of its mortgage marketplace, ‘PropertyGuru Finance’.
Through this venture, PropertyGuru aims to assist Singaporeans in saving money on their home loans in the long term, as well as simplify their...
Preqin has published its annual environmental, social and governance (ESG) report: ESG in Alternatives 2023. The report provides the latest insights within the private markets covering developments on fundraising and fund size for ESG across geographies.
The report shows that has been a three-fold increase...