SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): This year's Budget named Emerging Stronger Together will focus on how Singapore can come out of the Covid-19 crisis stronger and forge partnerships to meet the challenges ahead as one people.
No, not Chinese New Year, but the annual Budget Statement.
What s next after a blockbuster year?
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, there were multiple Budgets throughout the year to help support struggling businesses and families.
While we are nowhere near close to a return to normality, there is hope on the horizon with vaccines beginning to be rolled out.
But after a staggering S$92.9 billion was committed to the government s pandemic response across four Budgets, and with no general election slated for 2021, it doesn t seem likely that there will be a spending spree this year.
To keep an eye on what Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat will announce in this year s Budget, here are all the ways you can tune in:
Pandemic spurs asian surge in tech development
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic acceleration of Asian companies deployment of data and digital innovation, according to a report from global management consultancy McKinsey & Company.
David Sapsted22 December 2020
The report - compiled by Faridun Dotiwala, a partner in McKinsey’s Mumbai office, and Jatin Pant and Joydeep Sengupta, senior partners in the Singapore office - is based on interviews with business leaders from some of the Asia-Pacific region s top-performing companies.The executives all voiced the opinion that the pandemic had presented unprecedented opportunities to accelerate business trends that would make the region more self-sufficient and efficient across a range of areas.The findings in the report, Emerging Stronger, Fitter, Faster: The Rise of the Asian Corporation , are of particular importance to the UK as it forms new trade relations with the Asia-Pacific region and even harbours ambitions of jo
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Triterras Wins Singapore Founder Category of MAS Singapore FinTech Awards
Triterras Fintech Pte Ltd.December 11, 2020 GMT
SINGAPORE, Dec. 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Triterras Inc. (“Triterras” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: TRIT, TRITW), a leading fintech company for commodity trading and trade finance, announced that its blockchain-enabled Kratos platform has won the Singapore Founder category of the FinTech Awards issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
The MAS FinTech Awards recognize innovative, high quality solutions that are able to address real needs in the financial industry. This year, MAS chose the theme of “Building Resilience, Seizing Opportunities, Emerging Stronger,” as a call to the fintech industry to play a greater role in addressing the challenges posed by COVID-19 and climate change.
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