Singapore

Huawei opens $53 million regional centre in Singapore (The Straits Times)

Chinese tech giant Huawei yesterday launched a US$40 million (S$52.8 million) regional centre here that lets developers test apps and services for its mobile devices, its first in the Asia-Pacific. The...

ASEAN

Takeaways from AIBP Insights Retail & Real Estate: Harnessing Digital for Sustainable and Mixed-use Spaces

In our final session for Retail & Real Estate, our panelists from a diverse range of backgrounds including the Global Sustainability Exchange, Mahsing Group, JLL, Robinsons Land Corporation, as well...

ASEAN

Takeaways from AIBP Insights Retail & Real Estate: Digitalisation for the New Consumer - Meeting Customer Expectations and Preferences

In our 2nd session for Retail & Real Estate, our panelists from Central Group, DFS Group, EBN, Fave, Marriott International and The Coca-Cola Company came together to discuss and share...

ASEAN

Takeaways from AIBP Insights Retail & Real Estate: Omnichannel Retail - Maximising Customer Touchpoints

We kicked off our 2021 AIBP Insights series today with the first session for Retail & Real Estate. Our panelists from COMO Group, Filinvest, Kino Indonesia, Luxasia, Matahari, Nippon IndoSari,...

ASEAN

[REPORT] Manufacturing in ASEAN: Focus Sectors & Government Policies Driving Digital IR 4.0 Projects

ASEAN Governments have acknowledged the fundamental shift that is taking place in the technological landscape and have been rolling out various schemes and policies to encourage enterprises in their countries...

Southeast Asia

How cloud banking can enhance financial inclusion across South-east Asia (The Business Times)

Technology innovations transforming the financial services landscape in Southeast Asia include new forms of online payment, such as eWallets, which have experienced phenomenal growth in the region, and other new...

Southeast Asia

Stronger-than-expected PE fundraising for SE Asia in 2020 shows region's potential (DealStreetAsia)

"Southeast Asia's sizeable millennial and rapidly urbanizing population is shaping the speed of growth and technology innovation. As such, key areas that we are focused on include financial services, education,...

ASEAN

Enterprise Technology in ASEAN: 73% Expect Investments in Digital Technologies to increase in 2021

We released the full results of our 2020 AIBP ASEAN Enterprise Digital Transformation Survey on 26th December 2020, where 664 enterprise stakeholders from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam gave...

ASEAN

Smart Cities in ASEAN: Powering Good amidst Tough Times (INQUIRER.net)

“Driving Digitalisation Ecosystems in ASEAN” was a themed online forum recently co-hosted by Mr Van Tang, Director and Head of Business Development & International Partnerships – APAC at Hitachi. This...

ASEAN

AIBP 2020 ASEAN Enterprise Innovation Awards

In 2020, we received overwhelming response from the 5 ASEAN countries, with over 140 nominations submitted. 31 finalists presented their projects in a series of closed-door, online discussion forums held...

Southeast Asia

Shopee ramps up initiatives to adapt platform to changing consumer base (The Business Times)

A wave of digitalisation last year during the pandemic widened Shopee's access to consumer segments that have typically been hard to penetrate. Now, the South-east Asian e-commerce player wants to...

ASEAN

The changing Asean banking landscape (The Star)

A trend is fast gaining traction in the Asean banking space where small banks are being snapped up by technology companies for entry into an otherwise highly regulated market.  “Some...

Asia Pacific

South-east Asia still the top choice for business expansion: SBF poll (The Business Times)

Southeast Asia remains the top choice for future expansion, according to the Singapore Business Federation's (SBF) annual National Business Survey 20/21 released on Tuesday, with 76 per cent of 436...

ASEAN

ASEAN needs to promote digital infrastructure development for small businesses, individuals (The Edge Markets)

ASEAN should build a new economic ecosystem by promoting the development of digital infrastructure that is accessible for both small businesses and individuals to reinforce its economic recovery efforts and...

ASEAN

Asean can be a force to be reckoned with in Digital Economy, says expert (The Star)

Group Chief Executive Officer of Digitally.asia Group, Christopher Tock, said while it is important for the respective governments in Asean to work to increase the broadband penetration across their lands,...

Southeast Asia

Reinventing Southeast Asia’s retail industry to drive economic recovery (The Business Times)

With consumer behaviours, operating environments and market conditions changing constantly, responsiveness and speed are more important than ever. This is where technology platforms come in, acting as enablers for agility,...

ASEAN

Paradigm Shift in Banking and Financial Services: Takeaways from AIBP Focus

As a way to kick off 2021, we had the opportunity to host an AIBP Focus session with esteemed panelists from the Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI) sector across...

Indonesia

Gojek in Talks With Tokopedia for $18 Billion Merger, Sources Say (Bloomberg)

Indonesia’s ride-hailing and payments giant Gojek is in advanced discussions about merging with local e-commerce pioneer PT Tokopedia, ahead of a planned initial public offering of the combined entity, according to people with...

Philippines

The Future of Smart City Development: Prioritizing Value Creation with Data Insights

With a third of companies listed on the Philippines Stock Exchange Composite Index having a direct or indirect relationship with the real estate and infrastructure development in the country, we...

Malaysia

Malaysia to chair first ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting (The Edge Markets)

The Ministry of Communications and Multimedia (KKMM) in a statement today said the emphasis would be on the importance of centralisation and unity, in efforts to develop the ASEAN Community...