Singapore-based fintech solutions provider, InfoCorp, has launched the Sentinel Chain Consortium Programme to onboard strategic fintech and agritech partners onto Sentinel Chain - the world's first international platform to accept the use of livestock as collateral via a consortium blockchain. Southeast Asia’s poultry production is expected to reach 12.3 million...
ModuResources is an independent professional company that delivers services across the Well Lifecycle. With Well Engineering Services and Solutions, Rig Inspection services and solutions as well as training services as their main service streams, they serve a range of clients from Super-Major Oil companies, Majors, National Oil Companies (NOC),...
While the pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges and disruption to the global business environment, it has also opened up possibilities for companies that position themselves to seize them. Key to weathering the disruptions and realising growth plans are strong and agile financial foundations. One way to realise this is through...
Forrester's 2023 Singapore Banking Customer Experience Index (CX Index™) reveals an overall decline in CX quality amongst multichannel banks, resulting in mixed results and a reshuffle of the rankings. According to this year's CX Index rankings, Citibank and DBS Bank improved their CX scores; Standard Chartered, OCBC Bank, and United Overseas...
Six months into its launch, Maybank SME Digital Financing has approved RM1 billion of financing, benefitting more than 8,200 Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME), of which 85% or 6,950 are start-ups & microenterprises. In addition, all applications that were eligible for instant decisions received their approval and disbursements...
The Singapore Business Federation Young Business Leaders Network (SBF-YBLN) announced on 20 February 2020 the launch of the SBF-YBLN “Helping Our Promising Enterprises” (HOPE) Fund to support local businesses during this challenging period. In partnership with Goldbell Evolution Network (GEN), a private debt investment platform, a seed fund of...
CIMB Bank Berhad, Singapore branch ("CIMB") announced in November its collaboration with SESAMi Holding and Capital Match, to finance the SESAMi trading community's invoices digitally under an automated workflow.   SESAMi Holding, an e-procurement platform in Singapore acquired Capital Match, an invoice financing marketplace with operations in Singapore and Hong Kong.   Mr Ong Teck Soon, Chairman...
The Curtain Boutique was founded in 2012 as a two-man roaming team. Today, the pioneering local curtains, blinds and ziptrack retailer has become one of the top 100 fastest-growing companies in Singapore, with 70 employees, spanning across two showrooms and an operations HQ office. According to Bruce Lee, Chief Operating Officer,...
DBS Bank joined Contour’s network on 11 May 2020, growing the number of banks on the blockchain platform driving a collective effort to digitalise global trade. Built on R3’s Corda, Contour’s network focuses on digitalising processes, including the creation, exchange, approval and issuance of letter of credits (LCs), which are often tedious and...
Singapore SMEs continue to adopt a mildly optimistic outlook for the first six months of 2019 as general sentiments eased across all seven sectors.The SBF-DP SME Index (the Index) decreased from 51.0 to 50.7 this quarter, indicating a slight dampening of sentiments among SMEs. This index is based on...