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31 Jul 2026The Straits Times

Singapore banks using AI to vet private banking clients, speed up onboarding

11 Jun 2026The Straits Times

New credit reporting service may give S'pore consumers easier access to Malaysian financial products

17 Dec 2025The Business Times

Digital banks in South-east Asia face profit pressure as rates slump and credit risks rise

17 Nov 2025The Straits Times

Fraud and scam claims against digital banks in Singapore on the rise

30 Oct 2025China Daily

'New quality productive forces' fuel inclusive growth

13 Aug 2025The Business Times

Why leaders must learn to see beyond the tech hype

12 Aug 2025Nikkei Asia

Profits, and customers, prove elusive for Singapore's digital banks

18 Apr 2025The Straits Times

Digital investment platforms set to stay despite concerns

15 Mar 2025La Tribune

Opinion - L'urgence d'une formation éclairée des décideurs face aux technologies numériques transformatives

12 Jan 2025Channel News Asia (CNA)

Growing comfort with debt as more young Singaporeans use buy now, pay later service for daily spending

1 Jan 2025Lianhe Zaobao

Fierce competition in the market Analyst: The HKMA may raise the deposit limit of digital banks [in Chinese]

20 Dec 2024Forbes India

E for ecosystem: Giving power to corporate purpose

13 Aug 2024The Straits Times

Key management changes at S'pore digital banks GXS, MariBank may signal strategic shifts ahead

30 Jul 2024The Edge Singapore

What does it take to become digitally resilient?

22 Jul 2024The Straits Times

Merchants in Singapore offering 'buy now, pay later' plans see uplift in sales

17 Jun 2024The Register

China's Big Tech companies taught Asia to pay by scanning QR codes, but made a mess along the way

11 Oct 2023The Business Times

Ant, Tencent ride tourism recovery to capture cross-border payments

21 Sep 2023The Straits Times

MariBank raises interest rate on savings account to 2.88% as digital banks seek to draw customers

31 Aug 2023Forbes India

The Hikikomori Phenomenon, is Information Technology really to blame?

7 Jul 2023China Daily

Keeping AI in check

27 Jun 2023Channel News Asia (CNA)

Digital banks have to do more to woo customers in Singapore, say analysts

29 May 2023International Banker

Can Singapore's New Crop of Digital Banks Achieve Success?

3 May 2023Fortune Times (in Chinese)

新加坡推进支付融合 (in print)

16 Feb 2023Nikkei Asia

From Grab to Ant, Singapore's digital bank race picks up pace

2 Feb 2023CNBC

China's Tencent wants to expand its presence in Singapore –- and Chinese tourists are a big reason

19 Jan 2023Nikkei Finance

"Digibank" division Major banks take the lead, Grab also participates (Translated from Japanese)

1 Jan 2023Fortune Times (in Chinese)

先买后付,糖果还是毒药? (translated: Buy Now Pay Later, Candy or Poison?)

17 Nov 2022The Edge Singapore

Realising the metaverse

2 Nov 2022The Straits Times

More safeguards needed for 'buy now, pay later' scheme to protect younger consumers: Experts

2 Nov 2022Channel News Asia (CNA)

New 'buy now, pay later' guidelines: S$2,000 cap a good start but not enough, experts say

24 Aug 2022Money FM 89.3

Is there any possibility for the rise of "Hikikomori" amid the escalation of virtual interaction?

21 Jun 2022The Business Times

In Malaysia, a big push towards going fully cashless

21 Jun 2022Global Voice (Council on Business & Society)

The Hikikomori Phenomenon - Is IT really to blame?

19 Jun 2022South China Morning Post

What makes the e-CNY different from bitcoin? Central bank digital currencies share little with cryptocurrencies

17 Jun 2022Reuters

Crypto crash exposes regulators' complacency

24 May 2022CoBS Insights

The Hikikomori Phenomenon, Is Information Technology Really To Blame?

2 Apr 2022Tech in Asia

Behind the metaverse real estate rush

8 Feb 2022The Business Times

MAS orders DBS to set aside S$930m more in regulatory capital over serious service failure

18 Jan 2022WIRED

Ride-sharing giant Careem is pushing to reach super-app status

4 Jan 2022The Business Times

Digital banks seen debuting strongly in 2022, but 'long and difficult' path to profitability

3 Dec 2021The Register

Singaporean superapp Grab IPOs, badly, and promises to focus on maps and money

27 Nov 2021The Business Times

See you in the metaverse: How VR and NFTs could transform commerce

26 Nov 2021Money FM 89.3

DBS suffers worst disruption in a decade - The implications

24 Nov 2021The Business Times

MAS says DBS digital services outage is 'serious'; analysts expect bank to be fined for 'broad and material' impact

25 Oct 2021The Register

Asia's 'superapps' bundle ride-share, food delivery, even financial services, and they're beating big tech

31 Aug 2021The Business Times

Telcos, solutions providers tipped to join hands for 5G era

18 May 2021BusinessBecause

Virtual Reality To Startups: How ESSEC Business School Teaches Sustainability (cited)

3 Feb 2021Nikkei Asia

Singapore taxi giant challenges Grab with ride-hailing trial

1 Dec 2020The Business Times

Secure ecosystem is key in FAST payment access for non-bank e-wallet players

26 Sep 2020The Business Times

Safeguards to prevent abuse of tourism voucher scheme

3 Jul 2020The Business Times

Wirecard scandal puts audit firms, not fintechs, in hot seat

8 Feb 2020The Business Times

Have multi-currency account, will travel?: How far will new multi-currency players go in the payments game?

13 May 2019The Straits Times

Honestbee can fly high again: Analysts

3 May 2019The Business Times

honestbee CEO replaced; firm said to be sticking to habitat growth

20 Mar 2019The Business Times

Grab woos small businesses with suite of financial services

16 Feb 2019The Business Times

Cisco invests S$25m in cybersecurity centre and first S-E Asian co-innovation hub in S'pore (quoted)

Feb 2019Global Voice (Council on Business & Society)

E For Ecosystem: Giving Power To Corporate Purpose

24 Dec 2018The Edge Singapore

Shopping, interrupted (quoted)

19 Nov 2018The Edge Singapore

Finding Fintech's Purpose (quoted)

Sep 2018The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) Journal

Degree in Disruption (quoted)

2 Aug 2018The Straits Times

EZ-Link plans to turn cards into e-wallets with digital push (quoted)

29 May 2018The Straits Times

Bid to enable public transit payments via GrabPay

20 Mar 2018Tatler Singapore

Building Purposeful Businesses Through Innovation

28 Sep 2017The Business Times

Many recipes but Singapore's cashless appetite still not sated (quoted on cover page)

13 Sep 2017The Straits Times

Payment by phone soon as Nets card goes digital (quoted on cover page)

8 Sep 2017The Straits Times

Razer keeps promise and submits unified e-payment proposal (quoted)

15 Mar 2017Le Monde.fr

MBA: l'intelligence artificielle, valeur montante des programmes (quoted)

7 Dec 2016Singapore Business Review

Singapore Business Review honours top leaders and companies at the Management Excellence Awards and Business Rankings Awards

9 Mar 2015eFM101.3, Korea's No.1 Foreign Language Station, This Morning

Fintech

20 Jan 2015France Culture

What makes or breaks a mobile payment platform? Apple Pay Explained in 3 Minutes

17 Jan 2015Le Huffington Post

Apple Pay: les facteurs qui lui permettront de décoller... ou pas

13 Jan 2015ESSEC Knowledge

"VIDEO: The Factors that Will Make or Break Apple Pay"

Dec 2014Reflets (ESSEC Alumni Magazine)

Pourquoi tant de plateformes de paiement par mobile n'arrivent-elles pas à décoller?

12 Sep 2014Le Cercle des Echos

Late-mover: une stratégie viable pour Apple?

12 Sep 2014ESSEC Knowledge

"Can Apple keep winning the game with a late mover strategy?"

14 Apr 2013Le Huffington Post

Tizen, le nouveau système d'exploitation mobile de Samsung, serait-il un véritable concurrent?

11 Apr 2013Reflets (ESSEC Alumni Magazine)

Will Samsung's Tizen Be A Worthy Mobile OS Contender?

11 Apr 2013ESSEC Knowledge

"Will Samsung's Tizen Be A Worthy Mobile OS Contender?"

30 Sep 2012Le Huffington Post

L'iPhone 5: Apple perd-t-il son avantage

26 Sep 2012ESSEC Knowledge

"The iPhone 5: Is Apple losing its edge"

13 Sep 2012Radio Television Suisse (RTS)

Le journal du matin, La 1ère

23 Apr 2012Radio Television Suisse (RTS)

Les Temps Modernes, La 1ère

18 Apr 2012Exame (Brazilian Business Magazine)

O enfant terrible e seus inimigos (quoted)

2009Bulletin HEC (Alumni HEC Lausanne)

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