Digitalisation

Fintech

Cash trap

Singapore is going full steam ahead in its move to promote e-payments. But unless small and medium-sized enterprises, which make up 99% of all businesses, adopt e-payment systems, cash will still be king.

Disruption and Digitalisation

Digital integration to unite world, put it on higher growth path: Minister Chan

SINGAPORE (Oct 1): Digital and financial integration will help put the world on a higher growth trajectory over the next 10 to 15 years.

Careers & Training

Hiring prospects in 3Q expected to remain stable: ManpowerGroup

SINGAPORE (June 11): Despite continued economic headwinds, Singaporean employers are still optimistic in their hiring plans for 3Q19, according to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey released today.

Disruption and Digitalisation

Investors can now open CDP accounts online without paper documents

SINGAPORE (May 6): Investors can now open an individual Central Depository (CDP) account with Singapore Exchange (SGX) online, without the need to provide paper documents.

Fintech

Forgers are forcing a US$9 tril business into the digital age

(May 6): The US$9 trillion ($12.3 trillion) business of financing global trade needs to go digital, according to southeast Asia’s second-biggest lender.

In print this week

IHH Healthcare to take offerings to 'whole different level' with digitalisation

SINGAPORE (Apr 12): Towards the end of July 2012, at a meeting with bankers and fund managers in the run-up to IHH Healthcare’s IPO, an executive of a financial institution asked what was so special about the healthcare provider. “If we throw a few bi

Let’s not sell ourselves short

SINGAPORE (Jan 21): Why do I say this? There has been much talk and discussion about how New Malaysia should move forward from hereon. We know that government finances are stretched and, therefore, can no longer prop up the economy with huge spending. We

Malaysia

Blueprint needed on digitalising the key pillars of the economy

(Jan 14): The peaceful revolution by the people through the ballot box, which threw out a 61-year-old governing party on May 9, 2018, means different things to different people.
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