Among the five ASEAN countries covered in the UOB ASEAN Consumer Sentiment Study, which aims to provide a better understanding of ASEAN consumers at a time when the region is undergoing deep social and economic transformation, Singapore saw the second highest share of consumers (70 per cent)...
Research released by professional services firm GHD's digital arm, reveals that senior executives face renewed pressure to innovate even after their organizations had adapted successfully to COVID- 19. The Innovation Imperative research, commissioned by GHD Digital, surveyed 777 senior executives from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, United Arab...
The Singapore Business Federation (SBF) welcomed the Singapore Exchange Regulation’s (SGX RegCo) announcement in January 2020 to apply quarterly reporting requirements only for companies associated with higher risks while strengthening continuous disclosure requirements on all listed companies. This is in line with one of the recommendations...
HID has released its State of the Security Industry Report, which gathered responses from 2,700 partners, end users, and security and IT personnel across a range of titles and organization sizes representing over 11 industries. By looking at what’s driving the next innovations and the...
The Singapore Business Federation (SBF), Association of Small & Medium Enterprises (ASME) and Ministry of Trade and Industry’s (MTI) Pro-Enterprise Panel (PEP) have launched the SBF-ASME Pro-Enterprise Clinic for businesses, especially SMEs. Championed by ASME and SBF, the SBF-ASME Pro-Enterprise Clinic serves as a convenient one-stop platform...
Customers are looking at multiple cloud providers to meet their enterprise requirements. Multicloud is the reality in enterprise technology according to a study from 451 Research commissioned by Oracle. The study collected information from 1,500 respondents at enterprises about how they use the cloud...
As the COVID-19 economy spurs businesses to increase their reliance of data analytics and business intelligence, employees face the pressure of keeping pace with the evolving workplace demands. A large majority of employees (92%) say that they could be able to do their job...
DBS has introduced an automated supplier procure-to-pay solution for the construction sector developed by Singaporean fintech Doxa. Named Doxa Connex, the payments solution is a first for the sector in Singapore and it aims to help main contractors improve cashflow management with their suppliers as well as...
Shopee's 2023 ShopeeSapotLokal Building Connected Communities study finds that 100% of Malaysian women who achieve economic inclusion share their success by uplifting other women in B40 and rural areas.  For 1,015 female sellers surveyed on the marketplace this Ramadan period: two-thirds hire single, rural, or impoverished women, or...
For small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the sense of urgency to digitalise has heightened due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, Singapore’s extended circuit breaker which began in April this year, highlighted the necessity of digitalisation. It was during this period that OCBC Bank...