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Disruption and Digitalisation
Pand.ai develops chatbot for CIMB to assist business owners seeking financial relief
CIMB is sporting a new AI to help those seeking financial relief
May 19, 2020
Special Feature
NEC has wide portfolio of products to help banks transcend limitations
SINGAPORE (Nov 25): With the adoption of technology, banking has evolved from physical branches with human tellers to automated teller machines to online platforms where transactions are carried out without entering a bank branch. Today, banking is unde
November 22, 2019
Startups, Entrepreneurs, Digital economy
Grab will invest US$150 million in AI to build regional super app
SINGAPORE (Sept 5): Southeast Asian ride-hailing startup Grab Holdings Inc intends to invest US$150 million ($207.5 million) into artificial intelligence research over the next year, accelerating its expanding business that now includes food delivery, dig
September 05, 2019
Tech
Debate between Tesla's Musk and Alibaba's Ma leaves audience awestruck
SINGAPORE (Sept 2): Elon Musk and Jack Ma matched wits publicly for the first time. And boy, they did not disappoint. An onstage debate between China’s richest man and the Tesla boss left a largely Chinese audience both awestruck and dumbfounded as the
August 30, 2019
Tech
The one job in banking the robots cannot take
SINGAPORE (Sept 2): When HSBC Holdings thwarted a US$500 million ($694 million) central-bank heist, sophisticated computer software did not raise the alarm. The funds flowed undetected from Angola’s reserves to a dormant company’s account in London. I
August 30, 2019
Startups, Entrepreneurs, Digital economy
Alibaba and NTU launch first joint research institute outside of China, plans a DAMO lab in Singapore
SINGAPORE (Feb 28): Alibaba Group is teaming up with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to launch its first joint research institute outside of China.
February 28, 2018
Rise of robots could double Singapore's growth rate
SINGAPORE (July 25): The rise of the machines is coming.
July 25, 2017
Global Economy
Two of Wall Street's biggest names are sounding the alarm on the US economy
BOSTON (April 7): Two of Wall Street’s most influential CEOs -- Larry Fink and Jamie Dimon -- are raising warning flags over the nation’s economy.
April 07, 2017
Fintech
How Singapore’s financial institutions are turning a threat into opportunity
SINGAPORE (April 6): In line with the global trend, 88% of respondents from Singapore’s financial institutions this year see financial technology (fintech) as a real threat to their revenue as compared to just 73% in 2016, according to a new report by P
April 06, 2017
Alibaba, NUS and EZ-Link collaborate on pilot data analytics project
SINGAPORE (Jan 16): Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National University of Singapore and EZ-Link to “collaborate and boost Singapore’s smart computing and data-
January 16, 2017