The COVID-19 pandemic has weighed heavily on talent strategies with muted salary increases across Southeast Asia, according to a study by Aon plc . The second edition of Aon's 2021 Salary Increase and Turnover Study was conducted from June 2020 to June 2021, surveying the salary movements and turnover rates of...
Two years after the onset of the pandemic, the global economy continues to recover, but still faces significant challenges. After the lull in the 3rd quarter of 2021, Omicron has highlighted the unpredictability of the pandemic and exacerbated one of the main factors affecting the recovery: disruptions...
Nielsen has released its 2022 Annual Marketing Report, expanded for the first time to a global audience. It uncovers that marketers have key priorities for the year ahead, and where marketers have struggled over the past two years due to consumers’ changing media habits.
With the reopening of borders between Indonesia and Singapore earlier this year, Singapore businesses are resuming travel to Indonesia to seek growth opportunities.In line with this, the Singapore Enterprise Centre (SEC) @ Jakarta, part of the GlobalConnect@SBF programme, recently held its first business networking event - a...
Given the growing emphasis on the digitalisation of business processes to enhance workflow efficacy, employers are increasing their adoption of technology involving coding skills, which are the baseline competency for professionals to identify and measure problems and make data-driven decisions.
More than half (53%)...
Nine out of 10 accounting and financial professionals in Mainland China believe their employer will increase technology use over the next 12 months.
However, there is a digital divide between large and small businesses according to CPA Australia's Business Technology Survey 2022.Eighty per cent...
Securonix, Inc has released its 2022 Threat Report, which highlights the trends, required data and detection summaries for key cyberthreats. A combination of persistent insider threats, cloud infrastructure misuse and abuse, and sophisticated advanced attacks has fostered a riskier environment, and the report revealed that new vulnerabilities are...
Trend Micro has published a new report, The Near and Far Future of Today’s Ransomware Groups, warning that the ransomware industry could be on the verge of a revolution that sees actors expand into other areas of cybercrime or partner with hostile governments and organized crime groups.Jon Clay,...
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions has released the results of its True Impact of Failed Payments Report, a snapshot of cross-border payments performance on a global scale.
The report assesses insights collected from 400 payment executives representing leading corporations and financial institutions across the APAC, EMEA,...
A pandemic-prompted change in working practices has brought about progress for women in senior leadership, according to Grant Thornton's 2023 International Business Report (IBR) research into women in Singapore mid-market businesses.
Progress on the overall proportion of women in senior leadership rises decisively in Singapore and in Southeast Asia, climbing ahead...
