Beehive, a digital platform providing finance solutions to businesses, financial institutions and investors is partnering with Thailand’s Thanachart Bank to launch a digital supply chain that provides improved liquidity for SMEs in Asia.
"It is our strategic direction to enhance our digital technology capability to...
Singapore’s SMEs are still lagging in digital adoption and are not adequately prepared for the national transition to a digital economy, according to the fourth edition of QBE Insurance’s annual survey of Singapore SMEs. The results found that SMEs have been slow to take up cyber protection...
Six Singapore-based fintechs - Grab, Funding Societies, InstaReM, KyberNetwork, Ten X and Singapore Life - make it to KPMG’s 2018 Fintech100 list for the first time.
Grab, the popular ride-hailing platform that evolved to become an offline to online mobile platform targeting consumers; Funding Societies, an...
Singapore has taken several measures to beef up cybersecurity after attacks in recent years.
A new multi-year roadmap is underway to identify next generation cyber-threats and develop the solutions and capabilities needed to secure Singapore’s connectivity infrastructure.
This was announced by...
In the first edition of Xero Community, organised by accounting software company Xero, small and medium businesses in Singapore got together to decode the 2019 Budget. The Xero Community is a quarterly series of events to provide a platform for local SMEs to learn, connect and take...
A new report by S&P Global Ratings has indicated that embracing financial technology (fintech) and the innovations it heralds will improve the long-term competiveness of Singapore's banking industry.According to the report titled "Singapore banks must adapt to fintech or lose out", the global rating agency's credit analyst...
Singapore-based startup CSE SG has unveiled the new generation Smart Contract 2.0 - featuring multi-contractual conditions and multi-industry applications running under the revolutionary, super-fast blockchain 3.0 technology.
The new generation Smart Contract 2.0 has been applied to the field of finance globally, enabling ICOs, STOs and...
Businesses in Singapore recognise the importance of sustainability as a driver of reputation, growth and profitability, yet have not fully converted sentiment into meaningful action, a HSBC report has found. Not having a stronger approach to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is also simultaneously impacting corporates’ financing...
Singaporean multinational banking corporation United Overseas Bank (UOB) and OctoRocket.asia (OctoRocket), a business to business e-commerce platform, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enable small businesses in ASEAN on OctoRocket to apply for financing quickly and easily.
OctoRocket, a joint venture launched...
