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How Singapore Is Fueling A ‘Smart Nation’

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Singapore is on a mission to build up a Smart Nation by utilizing innovation and technology to create opportunities and strengthen communities. Between 2011 and 2015, the government allocated $16 billion to help accelerate Singapore’s research, innovation and enterprise landscape. With an estimated population of just 5.47

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Wages At Smaller Firms Reach Record High 

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Earnings growth was the biggest recorded since the Paychex/IHS Markit Small Business Employment Watch report launched in 2011. Small business job gains have flattened in the second half of the year as labor markets prove very tight,” said James Diffley, chief regional economist at IHS Markit. “In percent mid-year to 4.13

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Compass Plus Technologies hits the double at Global Banking & Finance Awards

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The awards have been running since 2011 and aim to recognise businesses driving innovation, progressive and inspirational changes within the global financial sector. Compass Plus Technologie s has picked up two awards in the Global Banking & Finance Awards 2022.

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Digital payments on the rise in India – what does this mean for the region?

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Banks and card providers have been devoting a lot of attention recently to Asian markets, and it’s not hard to see why. One market that’s particularly poised for growth is India. All these factors have combined to help ensure that 53 per cent of Indian consumers now have a bank account, up from just 35 per cent in 2011.

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Why JUMO Is Expanding From Africa Into Asia With Its Financial Services Platform

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billion adults have obtained an account since 2011, including 515 million since 2014 — but there is still a lot of progress to be made. It’s not only hard for banks in the region to underwrite profitably, it is incredibly hard for them to evaluate consumers in terms of credit-worthiness. That is actually an improvement.

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Competition Heats Up Between Large FIs, Small Banks, Alt Lenders ? And SMBs Win

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Thirty-four years have passed since SMB optimism was this high , according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). Both represent post-recession highs for traditional bank lending to small businesses, the report found, noting that big bank approval rates in 2011 were just 8.9 percent in May, down from 40.2

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Amazon Tracker: Cash In Bloom

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The online retail giant’s estimated market cap sat at just a tad over $439 billion—nearly twice that of Walmart. The big play Amazon made in the past few weeks came in a form not normally associated with eCommerce, at least not in the more mature digital markets. Well, as long as it happened between November 2011 and May 2016.).

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