New global heads to lead business banking and drive digital agenda

Tiger Brokers has over 9 million users worldwide. Standard Chartered Bank (the Bank) today announced the appointments of Xie Wen as Global Head, Business Banking and Mohamed Keraine as Global Head, Digital for its Consumer, Private and Business Banking (CPBB) business. Both Xie Wen and Mohamed will report to Judy Hsu, CEO, CPBB. Xie Wen is currently the…

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Tiger Brokers launches one-stop social trading platform

Tiger Brokers has over 9 million users worldwide. The global leading online brokerage Tiger Brokers is set to step into the online brokerage industry in Australia with its app-based comprehensive trading platform and competitive pricing strategy. The Nasdaq-listed firm announced today that it is launching its proprietary one-stop investing platform Tiger Trade…

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Philippine Airlines partners with IBS Software

PAL can better support employees. Philippine Airlines (PAL) and its regional affiliate PAL Express (PALex) have partnered with IBS Software to provide their employees with a new, fully digital system for booking and managing staff travel. The airline group has signed up to implement IBS Software’s fully automated SaaS solution…

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Singapore officially launched OneLife core system

COVID-19 epidemic in Singapore caused difficulties in communication between the two countries. Digital transformation and upgrading is the driving force of the transformation of the insurance industry, as well as the solid infrastructure for the company’s resource allocation, business circulation and operation services. China Life Insurance (Singapore) Pte Ltd has…

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Key Asia/Pacific Data and Content technologies

COVID-19 has largely accelerated rather than decreased spending on data and analytics. Many companies have been blindsided by the double challenge of digitalization and developing resilience in response to the pandemic. While COVID-19 has largely accelerated rather than decreased spending on data and analytics over the last year, most firms…

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72 per cent of businesses lack clear hybrid work strategy

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) were identified as the top transformative technologies. The State of the Industry: Future of Work survey was created to gain insights from senior executives regarding current and future work models, challenges posed under new working models, and technology accelerants to aid change in the way…

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India Artificial Intelligence Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

Technology will only continue to grow in India in 2022 and beyond. International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2024, 40 per cent of large enterprises will expand the use of AI/ML across all business-critical horizontal functions like marketing, legal, HR, procurement, and supply chain logistics. That is one of the…

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Using technology to reach sustainability goals

Australia accounts for 0.3 per cent of the global total population. With the onus on Australian businesses to lead the country towards net-zero carbon emissions, organisations can look to their technology architecture for ways to save energy and reduce their impact, according to Micro Focus. Australia accounts for 0.3 per…

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Digitalization development for financial and banking sectors in Vietnam

DBank integrates confidently and strongly with the world’s most modern digitalization trend. Within the official visit of Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc to Singapore, HDBank signed a cooperation agreement with Thought Machine group – the world’s leading core banking solution provider. In Vietnam, HDBank cooperates with Thought Machine to develop the latest version…

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DBS Digital Exchange crosses billion-dollar mark in trading value

Bank’s digital Asset business saw marked increase in momentum after DDEx went operational. DBS reported today strong traction for the first full year of operations of its digital asset ecosystem, anchored by its members-only DBS Digital Exchange (DDEx), one of the world’s first bank-backed digital exchanges. In FY2021, DDEx recorded…

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