Fostering innovation and growth in Malaysia’s Islamic digital economy

The agreement will facilitate the expansion of the Al Manassah sukuk trading platform solution. Malaysian tech start-up Freya Capital Sdn. Bhd. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) National Bonds, the private joint stock shareholding company under the Investment Corporation of Dubai, the investment…

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Industry reacts to Singapore 2022 Budget

Strong focus towards digitalisation support. The Singapore Government’s 2022 budget will focus keeping the country ahead in the race by investing in various capabilities. These include the digital realm, innovation, and the nations people, stated Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong. “The Government will strengthen our economy’s digital capabilities by upgrading…

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Data-driven patient care provides valuable insight when it comes to COVID-19

Has the potential to massively relieve the burden on health systems. As Australian hospitals, healthcare providers and aged care facilities continue to deal with the unpredictability of COVID-19, including the Omicron strain, there is an opportunity for healthcare providers to ease the burden, at least in part, nurses and healthcare…

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PDPC fines Singapore hotel bookings platform for data breach

Database containing 5M customer records had been accessed and exfiltrated. The Personal Data Protection Commission (“the Commission”) received a data breach notification from Commeasure Pte Ltd (“the Organisation”) that its database containing 5,892,843 customer records had been accessed and exfiltrated (“the Incident”). The Organisation first found out about the data…

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ANZ Bank hires divisional CIO

Reporting to ANZ group executive, technology, Gerard Florian. ANZ has announced the appointment of Paul White as Divisional Chief Information Officer for the Australia business. Reporting to ANZ Group Executive, Technology, Gerard Florian, White will be responsible for setting and implementing the overarching technology vision and strategy for ANZ’s Australia…

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Broad smartization industry adoption

COVID-19 accelerated the trend of smartization. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, smartization has become a topic of keen interest to individuals, companies, and society as a whole. In response to the crisis, most companies were quick to restructure their production chains to meet users’ demand and employ new technologies such as big…

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