Prudential Singapore boosts support for digitalisation efforts and business growth

Trainings on digitalisation and cyber security to help SMEs in their business transformation. Prudential Singapore (“Prudential”) has partnered Ngee Ann Polytechnic (“Ngee Ann Poly”) and ST Engineering to equip small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the knowledge and resources on how to go digital in a safe and secure manner. The support…

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Fiber optic lines to dominate fixed broadband landscape in APAC

Governments’ investments and the establishment of NBNs offering fiber on a wholesale basis. Fiber-to-the-Home/Building (FTTH/B)  service is set to cement its position as the leading fixed broadband technology in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) market and will go on to account for 94.8% of the total fixed broadband service revenue in the…

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Deglobalization driving enterprise telecoms resegmentation

Refocusing and resegmenting their target customers. Many once globally ambitious enterprise telecoms service providers have made a fundamental shift in market focus due to macro-economic changes such as deglobalization and to make the most of evolving technology, says GlobalData. The leading data and analytics company notes that this is a…

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Top predictions for the future of trust in 2022 and beyond

Building on proactive delivery. By 2023, 80% of APEJ organizations faced with complex global regulations will increase security compliance automation investment by 15% to ensure all policies and regulations are met consistently. This is just one of IDC’s predictions unveiled in its latest report, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Trust…

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Building talent to fuel the future of financial services in Singapore

Dr Tan See Leng, Minister for Manpower, at the Institute of Banking and Finance talks about the digitilisation wave. The financial services sector has remained resilient despite the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020, the financial and insurance sector grew by 5.1% even as the overall economy contracted. In the first three…

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Singapore Police Force and MAS investigate overseas online trading platform

Investigating Samtrade FX, and its related entities in Singapore. The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) of the Singapore Police Force and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) launched a joint investigation into online trading platform, Samtrade FX run by Samtrade FX Limited, a company registered in St Vincent and the Grenadines…

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