innovation

SINGAPORE (Feb 19): Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat encouraged all firms to embrace innovation and adopt new technologies as a key competitive advantage in his Budget 2018 speech.

SINGAPORE (Jan 23): Singapore jumped ahead of European economies Germany, Switzerland and Finland into third place on the strength of its top ranking in the tertiary-efficiency category in the 2018 Bloomberg Innovation Index.

SINGAPORE (Jan 5):  With Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat to deliver this year’s Budget Statement in Parliament on Feb 19, Deloitte has released its wishlist for Budget 2018.

SINGAPORE (Dec 18): The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Hong Kong recently announced that by 2019, a cross-border platform will be set up to boost trade finance using distributed ledger, or blockchain technology. The key benefit of this developm

SINGAPORE (Dec 4): Singapore’s chief financial officers (CFOs) appear to display the highest levels of uncertainty when it comes to managing data and implementing new technologies as compared to the global average, according to the latest report by EY F

(Nov 13): The digitalisation of society is advancing at a rapid pace. Amid this trend, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) is actively adopting new technologies and promoting digitalisation in various areas of its business.

(Nov 13): Last month’s launch of Prudential Singapore’s Fintegrate Partnership, which seeks to collaborate with fintech startups in Singapore and globally, and co-develop digital solutions for customers, is one of many steps that the long-standing ins

SINGAPORE (Aug 3): In a fast-changing and unpredictable world, Singapore companies and workers must always be ready to embrace change, lifelong learning and a never-say-die spirit in order to survive and thrive.

(July 31): Switzerland topped an innovation ranking of 35 countries for the 26th time in 2016, ahead of Singapore, Belgium, Germany and Finland. The home of drug makers Roche Holding AG and Novartis AG did well in all sub-categories, including education a

SINGAPORE (July 25): A majority 73% of business leader respondents believe in the strong value of corporate purpose and only a minority of 15% believe that their company’s main purpose is to maximise shareholder value, according to the latest report by