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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 24 June 2020 – Multiply Capital, a subsidiary of IFS Capital Limited, has launched its new website in Singapore, providing financing for micro and small businesses in Singapore. Made for Small Businesses Multiply’s unique set up allows it to offer financing to businesses typically deemed too small for financing. These include start-ups, sole-proprietorships/partnerships, and other small enterprises, where the average working capital requirement is ~S$30-50k.  Since […]

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 23 June 2020 – Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) recently rolled out more cash-out options for customers via 11,000 remittance counters across the Philippines, including in rural areas where most of the unbanked and underserved population are located. This makes UnionBank the first Philippine bank to launch the largest cash-out network in the country — a crucial step seen to significantly improve access to […]

New features designed for personal life begin to roll out in preview to the Microsoft Teams mobile app today   SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 23 June 2020 – Microsoft today announced new Teams features that extends beyond work life to personal life. The new features are designed to alleviate the need for disparate tools and instead, offer one central hub for individuals, groups, and families to collaborate, stay connected […]

Produced by the Group’s indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Zip Cinema, #ALIVE achieved #1 in advance ticket bookings with a dominant market share of 57.7% two days ahead of its release on 24 June 2020 In comparison, the Group’s most recent film, CRAZY ROMANCE, which resulted in commercial success, attained a market share of 12.3% two days prior to its opening day Distributed by Lotte Entertainment, #ALIVE headlines Spackman […]

Arabian Post Staff ENOC Group, the wholly-owned Dubai government entity, has reported a significant surge in the demand of storage capacity across its terminals in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Morocco and Djibouti.   The increased demand for bulk liquid storage at its facilities is a result of the upward price trajectory, as customers seek storage provision due to the weakening demand for oil in the wake of the […]

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach – 20 June 2020 – The 2020 Tang Prize in Sinology was awarded to renowned historian Wang Gungwu “for his trailblazing and dissecting insights on the history of the Chinese world order, Chinese overseas, and Chinese migratory experience. As the leading scholar on Sino-Southeast Asian historical relations, he developed a unique approach to understanding China by scrutinizing its long and complex relation […]

Launched at Amazon’s first Singapore Seller Summit, the Seller University is the latest initiative announced by Amazon to help local small and medium retailers unlock growth opportunities through online selling   SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 19 June 2020 – (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon today launched Seller University, an online education portal, for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in Singapore at its first Amazon Singapore Online Seller Summit 2020. With interactive […]

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Asia Young Designer Awards (AYDA) gear up for another year to empower young, budding designers of Asia Pacific   SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 19 June 2020 – Organised by Nippon Paint, the Asia Young Designer Awards (AYDA), will see its 13th year of empowering young, budding designers to be agents of change by creating a positive impact, through design, within their communities. Held annually, student participants go through […]

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 19 June 2020 – PSB Academy (PSBA), one of Singapore’s leading private education institutions, have pledged to renew partnerships with Australian universities The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON) and La Trobe University (LTU), to continue to offer select undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Singapore for another five years. From top left clockwise: Professor Sally Chan, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Singapore) and Chief Executive Officer, University of […]

Industry experts and customers to tackle post-pandemic supply chain structures, share best practices: June 23-24   SINGAPORE | Sydney, AUSTRALIA – Media OutReach – June 19, 2020 – Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, today announced the Infor APAC Supply Chain Virtual Summit 2020 will take place online June 23-24 with a central theme of how to run a next-generation supply chain.   The two half-day summit […]

LONDON, UK AND TOKYO, JAPAN – Media OutReach – 18 June 2020 – Splyt, a scale-up integrator of mobility apps and travel platforms, has closed a USD 19.5 million Series B investment round to support its expansion. The round was led by SoftBank Corp. (TOKYO: 9434), the Japan-based telecommunications and technology company, who will receive a seat on the Board and a significant share in the company. American Express […]

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 17 June 2020 – In times of crisis, online businesses need to scale to survive. The most promising region in the world for business expansion is Asia. Which online industries are booming right now? How do you expand into a fragmented region with cultural differences and complex payment behaviour? The experts will discuss these, and other topics at the FREE Gate2Asia webinar on July 2. […]

AIA is also opening up more pathways for jobseekers and fresh graduates through various recruitment campaigns and the SGUnited Traineeships Programme   SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 17 June 2020 – AIA Singapore today announced that all employees will receive S$1,000 as part of the company’s focus on its people, to help its staff who are working remotely from home during the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, to ensure that they […]

– Asian Investors To Reap Returns on 2 Exits   SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 17 June 2020 – The Walton Group of Companies (“Walton”) continues to implement its strategy of accelerating exit activity for the benefit of its investors, and investors are now seeing the results. Walton’s strategy allows a homebuilder to acquire land in phases with the bulk of land payments deferred to the timing of home […]

Research conducted by Linkflow Capital shows that more SMEs continue to see improved access to financing in 2019   SINGAPORE – Media Outreach – 16 June 2020 – In their annual SME financing research conducted by Linkflow Capital, SMEs continue to see improved access to financing in 2019. According to Linkflow Capital, up to 39% of SMEs gained access to financing in 2019. This figure has continued […]

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 16 June 2020 – Global technology giant IBM, and Singapore’s leading Continuing Education and Training provider NTUC LearningHub (NTUC LHUB), today announced a collaboration to close technology skills gaps in Singapore amid the evolving Covid-19 situation. This will be done through curating free courses in areas such as AI, Cloud and Data. The tie-up came as a result of ongoing discussions about the shared […]

Converging the power of mobile credit risk scoring and digital fraud management technology to access Southeast Asia’s 400 million unbanked and new-to-credit population   SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 16 June 2020 – GBG (AIM:GBG), the global technology specialist in fraud and compliance management, identity verification and location data intelligence today announced a technology partnership with CredoLab, the leading developer of bank-grade digital scorecards based on privacy-consented and permissioned smartphone […]

By Matein Khalid Oscar Wilde once spoke of his friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, the fabled Bosie, as “the love that dare not speak its name”, in Victorian London, when Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper roamed amid the fog and the gaslights! The love that dare not speak its name in my life is, of course, my obsession with foreign exchange markets, a love that mesmerizes […]

For two years, the agency has worked to pivot from traditional branding and design agency to creative consultancy and venture studio to make the push for Asian companies. Team believes that coronavirus levelled the global playing field and the opportunity is now for Asian lifestyle brands to take the global spotlight. Since 2012, Constant has helped modernise and launch over 40 brands in the region including New […]

Accelerates efficiency while enhancing security, document management and remote working capabilities   SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 16 June 2020 – Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific today announced the launch of 19 new models from its digital multifunction/printer ApeosPort and DocuPrint series (Refer to Table A). The latest products, together with Fuji Xerox’s solutions, will allow businesses to overcome new challenges on intensifying security risk, demand for greater efficiency, burgeoning operational […]

JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Media OutReach – 16 June 2020 – Leading global logistics provider, GEODIS has announced the appointment of Tomy Sofhian as the Managing Director of Indonesia from May 2020.   Tomy reports to Rene Bach-Larsen, Sub-Regional Managing Director ASEAN, who commented: “Tomy Sofhian joins GEODIS with a wealth of experience in the supply chain industry and at a key time during our expansion of operations in Indonesia.  We continue […]

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 12 June 2020 – As digital transformation become the imperative for businesses in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, 58% of employers in Singapore are training their workforce in technology-related skills to keep their businesses viable and resilient during this period. This is one of the key findings in the recent NTUC LearningHub’s Employer Skills Survey report. The survey, which was conducted during the […]

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 12 June 2020 – As companies and businesses gradually head back to work following relaxed COVID-19 measures, JustCo, Asia Pacific’s leading co-working space provider, steps up safety measures by distributing 100,000 free certified surgical-grade face masks to staff and members returning to its offices across Singapore. It has also extended this circle of care to the tenants in the buildings where it is located.   […]

The complimentary online event aims to bring together the local seller community and empower them to develop strategies and skills to expand their businesses and reach more customers locally and globally   SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – June 11, 2020 – (NASDAQ:AMZN) – Amazon will be hosting its first summit for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in Singapore, Amazon Singapore Online Seller Summit 2020, on June 19, 2020, 9am […]

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