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ASEAN StrategyForum Banking leads the way to the new industry requirements by exploring the opportunities of data and digital technologies in customer engagement and business model innovation. At the event you will meet and exchange thoughts with Top Business Management, Line Management and Senior IT, Finance and Marketing Executives responsible for growth strategies and business development.
Money20/20 Asia will bring together senior representatives from across the ecosystem – from the mighty markets of China and India, global financial hubs of Hong Kong and Singapore, innovation centres of Japan, South Korea and Australia and emergent fintech markets such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, the Philippines and more to connect and create the future of money.
SME Finance Forum member Xero, along with DBS, have expanded their partnership to help SMEs simplify bill payments by launching an industry-first online payments solution to help start-ups and SMEs manage their cashflow needs better.
The DBS-Xero payment solution addresses payment problems among SMEs caused by finance-related concerns such as cash flow problems. This is an issue which plagues more than 1 in 3 SMEs in Singapore.
The inaugural Singapore FinTech Festival was an invigorating week of distinct FinTech events from 14-18 November 2016. This year, they will offer even more exciting discussions, stimulating demos and insightful debates over the period of 13-17 November 2017. Whether you’re a start-up, technology company, investor, financial institution, research institute or innovation professional, you’ll want to be part of it.
Next Money is a global network of fintech innovators reinventing finance through design, innovation & entrepreneurship. This November, there conference in Singapore will feature the intersection of identity and AI. More details to come.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced it will relax some business restrictions on finance companies to help small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) obtain financing.
Access to financing has emerged as a growing challenge faced by small and medium-sized enterprises, according to the latest SME Development Survey which polled 2,513 local enterprises across a range of sectors. According to the findings released on Wednesday (Nov 2), 22 per cent of respondents said they face financing issues, up from 14 per cent last year.
More help is on the way for Singapore SMEs to embark on innovation projects to solve business problems and build capabilities. DBS - together with Infocomm Investments (IIPL) and Intellectual Property Intermediary Singapore (IPI) - on Monday launched an initiative that will allow SMEs to submit a business problem online and be matched with a tech solution provider.Through the new platform, DBS TechMatch, SMEs will be able to define and propose a business problem, such as in logistics systems or customer relationship management.
In 2009, I coined the word BaaS. No, nothing to do with sheep! Instead, BaaS stands for Banking-as-a-Service. In 2016, everyone is talking about this:
A common challenge any business will run into is funding, and there are many loan products out there to address this issue for most SMEs. Between banks and the relatively new option of peer-to-peer (p2p) lending, we did the research on these various options.
