Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa and Singapore Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat officially opened ADB’s new office in Singapore on 5 March 2020, deepening efforts to collaborate on some of the most pressing development challenges facing Asia and the Pacific....
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...
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.
With working capital the lifeblood of all SMEs, DBS has to date availed over 12,000 collateral-free loans totalling more than SGD 6.2 billion to SMEs in Singapore since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. This includes close to SGD 1 billion in collateral-free loans approved to date...
The Cisco 2023 Consumer Privacy Survey highlights how younger consumers are taking deliberate action to protect their privacy, as 42% of consumers aged 18-24 exercise their Data Subject Access Rights, compared with just 6% for consumers 75 and older.
Many say they have lost...
Awareness of today’s vast and complex cyber risk landscape is in decline among local small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this year’s QBE SME Survey for Singapore reveals.
605 SMEs were surveyed between December 2023 and January 2024*, whereby Singaporean SME business leaders were polled...
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...
ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, has announced the results of its recent market study, The 2021 Digital Readiness Survey, finding that 94% of businesses in Singapore increased their utilisation of business analytics over the last two years.
The study results also...
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...
Bank DBS Indonesia has collaborated with CARInih, a technology-based company that prioritises a collaborative ecosystem, to support the digital transformation of Indonesian small, micro, and medium enterprises (SMEs) online and offline.
CARInih provides an application that features Bank DBS Indonesia’s corporate digital banking services,...
