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Silverlake Axis is a leading provider of end-to-end, universal and integrated banking solutions. Our award winning Silverlake Axis Integrated Banking Solutions (SIBS) are implemented at leading financial institutions across 16 countries in Asia and Middle-East, including 40% of the top 20 largest banks in South East Asia.
The proven, cost-effective, innovative and value-based solutions from Silverlake Axis have delivered successful core banking transformations and enabled financial institutions to realize excellence in efficiency, effectiveness and overall competitiveness.
Our Universal Banking Solutions for Conventional, Islamic and Micro Banking have enabled and powered the transformation of over 85 national, regional and global banks since 1989.
International Business Machines Corporation, IBM is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
A leader in technology, IBM maintains the world's largest private-sector research arm. In 2008, for the 16th consecutive year, IBM was issued more US patents (4,186) than any other company. In the last five years IBM has aggressively complemented an investment of $29 billion in research and development with more than 60 acquisitions of hardware, services and software companies.
Today, IBM is helping our clients to change the way the world literally works - and to make the planet not just smaller and "flatter," but smarter. For the first time in history, almost anything can become digitally aware and interconnected. IBM is applying its expertise, global scope and creativity to build the backbone of 21st century industries and public institutions.
About IBM Systems
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IBM Power Systems leadership in more than 70 key computing performance benchmarks. For more details, please visit www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/benchmarks.
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Experian is the leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to clients in more than 65 countries. The company helps businesses to manage credit risk, prevent fraud, target marketing offers and automate decision making. Experian also helps individuals to check their credit report and credit score, and protect against identity theft.
Experian plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 index. Total revenue for the year ended 31 March 2009 was $3.9 billion. Experian employs approximately 15,000 people in 40 countries and has its corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, with operational headquarters in Nottingham, UK; Costa Mesa, California; and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of 'Employee First' which empowers our 55,688 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 2.5 billion (Rs. 11,833 crores), as on 31st December 2009 (on LTM basis).
HP Software & Solutions
is the enterprise software division of the world's largest technology company Hewlett-Packard. HP Software & Solutions is used by more than 75% of global Fortune 100 companies. It comprises four business units, namely Business Technology Optimisation (BTO), Information Management (IM), Business Intelligence Solution (BIS), and Communications & Media Solution (CMS).
BTO helps businesses ensure that every dollar invested in information technology, every resource allocated and every application in development or production meets the business goals.IM helps businesses manage, protect and extract value from their information assets.
CMS helps telecom service providers transform their service portfolio and achieve operational excellence. BIS helps businesses connect the intelligence scattered across the business ecosystem, to achieve a consistent view of business data.
Juniper Networks offers a high-performance network infrastructure that helps service providers, enterprises, and public sector organisations create value and accelerate business success within the new, changing global marketplace. Our products and technology run the world's largest and most demanding global networks.Additional information can be found at:
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit www.novell.com.
Through our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. We deliver the best-engineered, most interoperable Linux platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that help customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. Because of our 25 years of experience and our vision of interoperability and flexibility, we deliver powerful, next-generation business infrastructures that enable our customers to stay competitive.
Novell ® Making IT Work As One™
Our solutions help customers integrate Linux and other open source technologies into their IT infrastructures while leveraging existing resources. And our IT management software automates management across physical and virtual systems, controls customers' IT assets intelligently and automatically, and enforces business and security policies across your physical and virtual environments.
Oracle Financial Services Software is a world leader in providing products and services to the financial services industry and is a majority owned subsidiary of Oracle. With the experience of delivering value-based IT solutions to over 880 financial institutions across 135 countries, Oracle Financial Services Software understands the specific challenges that financial institutions face.
We offer the combined benefits of interoperability, extensibility, and standardization along with best-of-breed functionality for institutions that need to operate flexibly and respond rapidly to market dynamics in a fiercely challenging business environment. Our award winning portfolio encompasses retail, corporate, and investment banking, funds, cash management, trade, treasury, payments, lending, private wealth management, asset management, compliance, enterprise risk and business analytics, among others.
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Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM) is the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice solutions and a visionary in communications that empower people to connect and collaborate everywhere.
Companies choose Polycom for solutions that allow even geographically dispersed workforces to communicate more effectively and productively over distances. Using Polycom voice, video, and telepresence products and services, people connect and collaborate with one another from their desktops, meeting rooms, class rooms, and mobile settings. Companies use Polycom solutions to easily and quickly collaborate "face-to-face" wherever they are, spending their resources, time, and energy addressing business challenges. In today's economy, Polycom solutions offer a rapid ROI and help customers reduce costs, increase productivity and lower their carbon footprint.
Find out how you can collaborate anytime, anyplace with any device in a virtual experience that's as natural as being there.
Thinksoft Global Services Ltd. is a specialist in Financial Software Testing with offices in several major financial capitals of the world. Thinksoft is India’s only listed co. (NSE/BSE) which specialises in helping Global Financial sector firms to significantly improve the quality of their applications, software and systems. Our revenues have been growing at a CAGR of 49% in the last 5 years and we have been ranked among Deloitte TechFast500 Asiapac for 3 years in a row: 2006, 2007 and 2008. Our clients are situated in 23 countries across the globe which includes global financial organisations, Fortune 500 banks and major insurance companies. Thinksoft is only into Software testing and that too exclusively for financial organisations across the world. This helps the clients to:
Realize Business Ready software implementations
Benefit from Best practices in Structured Testing
Save on Software Product Life Cycle Costs
Achieve Faster Time to Market
Thinksoft covers the entire gamut of 'Assurance-covering 'Requirements Services', 'Testing' and User support. Thinksoft sets up and manages the 'Global Testing Centers of Excellence' for several of its clients by leveraging its Offshore test centres in Chennai (India). For more information contact us at info@thinksoftglobal.com
Verizon Business is a global IT, security and communications solutions partner to business and government with one of the world's most connected IP network. Our broad range of strategic solutions, services and expertise can help you improve infrastructure and application performance, secure your data wherever it is, create a collaborative environment, and connect with your customers, partners, suppliers and employees when and where you need to. With over 32,000 employees worldwide in 321 offices and 75 countries, we offer a consistent global service experience and dedicated local service and support. Find out more at .
Wipro (NYSE:WIT) is a $5 bn global provider of IT Services, Outsourced R&D, Infrastructure Outsourcing, Business Process Services, and Business Consulting. With over 25 years in the global delivery of technology services, Wipro is the world's largest third-party provider of R&D services and the world's first PCMM and CMMi level company. Wipro is the first to perfect a unique quality methodology, the Wipro Way-a combination of Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen and CMM-to provide unmatched business value and predictability to our clients.
In a fiercely competitive world, Fiserv has a rich 25 year history of helping businesses stay one step ahead. Meeting growth objectives while coping with market realities, delivering what clients want now and anticipating what they'll want tomorrow, addressing compliance and regulatory requirements and leveraging the right technology to streamline processes and control costs.
Rated #1 by Fintech four times of five, Fiserv is the world's largest service provider to banks, credit unions and lending institutions with 16,000 clients.
We offer an unmatched array of innovative solutions created with a broad, deep understanding of banking that adds value at every level supported by the highest quality client service. Our service-oriented architecture empowers you to integrate an extensive product portfolio with third-party systems to create a comprehensive solution that meets your needs.
Microsoft's Financial Services group helps financial firms leverage technology to amplify the impact their people can deliver to drive business success. We help our customers in banking, capital markets/securities, and insurance achieve four business outcomes: develop relationships, drive innovation, improve operations and build connections. To do this, we focus our products and technologies, and our work with leading solutions, services and hardware partners, on key areas where we believe we and our partners can deliver exceptional value; those areas include advisory services, online financial services, customer knowledge, branch, customer and performance insight, core banking, core policy administration, claims servicing, risk management and compliance, and payments. More information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/financialservices.
About Microsoft Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Innovations Software Technology is a market leader in Business Rules Management Platforms. In addition, Innovations offers leading financial industry solutions for Credit Risk Management, Compliance Management and Customer Relationship Management. Independent research companies Forrester and Bloor rate Innovations as one of the three leading companies in the Business Rules Management Platform market internationally. Innovations Rules Platform (Visual Rules) offers an especially intuitive graphical approach to the development of applications and the modeling of business rules. Innovations also offers the Dynamic Application Framework, which automates the generation of the UI from the implementation of dynamic rules within applications.
Organizations in banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, retail, automotive, logistics as well as IT service providers trust Innovations' products and solutions
Innovations was founded in 1997 in Immenstaad, Germany. Regional headquarters are Chicago for The Americas and Singapore for Asia-Pacific. Since 2008, Innovations has been a member of the Bosch Group.
Asset Control
provides centralized data management solutions for financial institutions worldwide. From business-entity to firm-wide projects, Asset Control offers strategic reference and market data platforms that deliver the accuracy, consistency and relevancy firms need to reduce costs and risk, manage evolving compliance needs, and accelerate the delivery of new products and services. Asset Control has helped some of the world's most successful financial institutions optimize their data infrastructures, enhance decision making, and reduce data complexity. Asset Control's award-winning solutions help financial institutions meet their data management needs today with the flexibility to grow and evolve with their businesses.
The Avaloq Group is the Swiss market leader for standardised banking software. The company's Avaloq Banking System is an integrated and modular core banking system for private, retail and universal banks, asset managers and transaction banks, in which around 40 banks throughout the world already place their confidence.
Avaloq also provides services to cover the whole life cycle of the banking software. In the Avaloq Academy customers are given the skills to further develop the Avaloq Banking System independently. The Avaloq Community is a unique platform for the exchange of know-how and innovative ideas for over 35,000 customers, partners and Avaloq employees.
Avaloq has locations in Zurich and other locations in Switzerland, as well as branch offices in Luxembourg and Singapore. In the course of its internationalisation strategy further branch offices will soon be opened in Vienna, Frankfurt, Moscow and Dubai.
Callataÿ & Wouters
is a global, best-in-class provider of solutions and professional services for the Banking sector, with subsidiaries in Singapore and Sydney to serve the APAC region. Its solutions for multi-channel and core-banking-Thaler Banking Solutions-are installed in over 40 banks in 15 countries. In 2007 Callataÿ & Wouters closed a strategic partnership with SAP. Thaler is now deployed on the technology platform from SAP and integrated with SAP solutions for Accounting and Risk Management. Thaler is backed by an experienced Callataÿ & Wouters' professional services team and a network of global and local system integrators.
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services. Cognizant's single-minded passion is to dedicate our global technology and innovation know-how, our industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger. With over 50 global delivery centers and more than 78,400 employees as of December 31, 2009, we combine a unique onsite/offshore delivery model infused by a distinct culture of customer satisfaction. A member of the NASDAQ-100 Index and S&P 500 Index, Cognizant is a Forbes Global 2000 company and a member of the Fortune 1000 and is ranked among the top information technology companies in BusinessWeek's Hot Growth and Top 50 Performers listings.
Cognizant is recognized as one of the Top Banking and Financial Services IT Outsourcing service providers worldwide. This reputation has been built up over a period of 15 years partnering with 85+ global financial institutions across service lines including consulting, application development and support, IT infrastructure and BPO. This wealth of experience allows Cognizant to bring a set of best practices to any client engagement which allows for defect free deliveries and very significantly reduced time to market.
HITACHI believes in providing IT solutions that empowers businesses by constantly simplifying IT management. Hitachi JP1, Japan's leading System Management solution, helps organizations centrally manage their IT operations like job scheduling, desktop control and performance monitoring within a heterogeneous environment. Hitachi JP1 is available in SEA (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam. Worldwide, more than 9,000 clients use JP1.
Hitachi Data Systems provides Services Oriented Storage Solutions that enable heterogeneous storage to be dynamically provisioned according to business needs and centrally managed via industry leading Hitachi storage virtualization software. It delivers storage infrastructure platforms, storage management software and storage consulting services through direct and indirect channels in over 170 countries and regions. Its customers include nearly 60 percent of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500®.
KIVA GROUP is a global provider of Web-based software solutions that help community financial institutions to integrate and optimize their multiple delivery channels to achieve sales success through exceptional service. Respect™ 7, the company's technology platform and suite of applications, is enabling banks and credit unions worldwide to connect the customer, product and services information they need to create a more satisfying experience with each interaction. These teller, branch, Internet, call center, IVR, marketing and sales software products can be implemented as point solutions or as part of a strategic initiative to completely unify the enterprise.
Pegasystems, the leader in Business Process Management, has helped the largest financial institutions in the world address some of their most complex business issues for over 25 years. Whether addressing challenges in customer acquisition and on-boarding, customer relationship management, servicing backbone, or risk fraud and compliance, Pegasystems' Build for Change technology has delivered agile solutions across the enterprise - from retail and wholesale banks to capital markets, lending and credit card organizations.
Pegasystems Build for Change technology provides financial institutions with the agility they need to manage change, automate work and deliver new business value. Leading financial institutions rely on Pegasystems to provide flexible, scalable solutions that enhance their existing systems and help drive efficiency and effectiveness across the enterprise. With Pegasystems' industry leading technology, financial institutions have the tools they need to drive continuous improvement and differentiate themselves from the competition.
SafeNet is a global leader in information security, founded more than 25 years ago. The Company protects identities, transactions, communications, data and software licensing through a full spectrum of encryption technologies, including hardware, software, and chips. More than 25,000 corporate and government customers in 100 countries including UBS, Nokia, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Bank of America, Adobe, Cisco, Microsoft, Samsung, Texas Instruments, the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, trust their security needs to SafeNet. In 2007, SafeNet was acquired by Vector Capital, a $2 billion private equity firm specializing in the technology sector.
Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions. On this basis, Deutsche Telekom's corporate customers arm provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society. Some 46,000 employees at T-Systems combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add significant value to customers' core business all over the world. The corporate customers arm generated revenue of around EUR 9.3 billion in the 2008 financial year.
AG|Delta
specializes in Investment Product Distribution Solutions for Wealth Management, Corporate & Retail Consumer Channels in the banking & financial services industry.
AG|Capital, our flagship solution, pioneers advances in Customer Centric E-commerce, Compliance, Relationship Product Pricing and Workflow Automation, to deliver a unified platform for Investments Products including Structured Investments, Treasury products, Retail Direct Investments and Exchanged Traded Products
Delivered as a rapid ROI solution with the latest Internet and SOA technologies, AG|Capital solves increasingly complex Profitability, Compliance & Educational challenges when distributing Investment Products in the post financial crises era.
With operations across all major markets in the Asia Pacific, AG|Delta is well recognized as an innovative provider of business software and advisory solutions in the region. AG|Delta has received top accolades including a Top Emerging Enterprise Singapore Award in 2008 and recognized as a Top E-Commerce Solutions provider in the 2009 from Structured Products - Global Industry Technology Survey.
Asia Debts Xchange Pte Ltd ("ADX") ,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Melioris Private Limited, provides solutions for the financial services industry to better manage working capital, enhance cashflows and improved cost management.
ADX's financial services solution suite comprises:
ADX-MAR - 1st party Collections Management solution
ADX Collections - 3rd party Collections & Recoveries solution
ADX Debt Buying and sale - Platform for the selling and buying of delinquent and distressed assets.
ADX's financial services solution was awarded the MERIT award in the financial application category in the Infocomm Singapore 2008 awards. In 2009, ADX won the best developer award for the top 25 developers in Singapore.
ADX's solutions can be delivered on a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. In addition, ADX can provide full financial BPO services around collection management activities.
Emerio is a technology services and outsourcing company. With deep industry knowledge, business process expertise, global resources and a proven track record, Emerio deploys the right people, skills and technologies to help clients improve their performance. Emerio help organisations achieve consistent quality and operational cost reductions through optimized service delivery models and process improvements. Emerio offers cutting edge solutions in the areas of Application Services, Infrastructure Services and Business Process Outsourcing.
Infotech is knowledge integration company renowned for its brilliantly built technology solutions. It has the heritage of leadership in business and technology development to deliver technology solutions of systems integration in financial, telecom and government sectors. Our fundamental strengths, geographical reach and skill force help us to ensure the services and solutions we provide long-term customer value in the evolving, fast-moving digital networked economy.
InfoTech leverages its expertise in the capital and securities market to deliver value through continuous innovation and improved efficiency of financial markets. We use our financial understanding to create tangible value for customers in terms of strategy as well as implementation.
InfoTech Professional Services business unit offers high-quality advisory, consultancy, and system implementation services across the complete spectrum of MIS activities. It consists of an integrated set of services covering Professional Consultancy, e-Business Solutions, Systems Integration, Project Management, Strategic Outsourcing and Business Intelligence Services.
Inventys provides innovative and highly cost-effective solutions to achieve business user productivity and operational efficiency. Our product called Fusion uses a patented enterprise mashup technology to significantly improve enterprise user productivity and reduce operational costs, resulting in million dollar savings/earnings for our customers.
Fusion eliminates User Latency and improves software driven labor productivity. It has been deployed successfully in several domains such as customer contact centers, banks, telcos, logistics, and healthcare.
Our value proposition lies in our ability to quickly enable application workflows and information integration among legacy applications with zero code changes to these applications.
Inventys solutions are delivered through Inventys consultants and a growing number of system integrators and solution partners.
NComputing, Inc. is the fastest growing desktop virtualization company in the world with millions of users in 140 countries. The company's award-winning, patented technology lowers desktop computing costs, improves manageability, and reduces both energy consumption and e-waste. It is the perfect solution for leveraging the power and potential of PCs and cloud computing.
NComputing's breakthrough desktop virtualization technology is available in three product families: the NComputing X-series, the L-series and the latest U-Series. All product lines enable standard PCs and servers to share their resources for no-compromise computing at unprecedented low prices.
The X-series supports up to eleven simultaneous users on a single shared PC via a PCI card and the L-series connects to the shared computer via standard Ethernet networks. Up to 30 users can connect to a standard PC or server and up to 200 users can connect to a mid-range server. The revolutionary new U-series are the simplest of all to connect, because they just snap into standard USB ports. There are no network switches to buy and no PCI cards to install. USB does have a distance limitation, but for small installations the NComputing U-series offers high-def multimedia at rock-bottom prices. For more information, visit www.ncomputing.com.
1-Net Singapore is a leading infocomm technology solutions provider that offers integrated solutions and expertise under one roof to meet the challenges of the fast changing business environment in this e-age.
As one of the pioneers of broadband development in Singapore, 1-Net currently manages telco-class carrier-neutral Internet Data Centres, along with providing domestic and international connectivity, managed services and media delivery services. Offering superior stability, sustainability and security through its services and with an excellent operational track record, 1-Net is among very few local providers that bring a comprehensive range of integrated services to its customers as a one-stop-shop.
1-Net is a wholly owned subsidiary of MediaCorp Pte Ltd, Singapore's leading media company, with a complete range of platforms spanning television, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies and digital media.
Trusted Hub is formed in the year 2001 to provide document processing that conforms to legal standards such that data and images produced can be recognized as electronic originals and with equal legal weight-age as compared with paper transaction.
Today, Trusted Hub has grown rapidly into one of the leaders in providing Business Process as a Shared Service (BPaaSS) in Asia. Our shareholders include Temasek Holdings, NCS and Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited.
Trusted Hub technologies and services are based on stringent legal and control frameworks to ensure that the electronic data created and stored with us is trustworthy. We have been EA certified and reviewed since 2001.
Trusted Hub operates one of the largest BPaaSS Hub in Asia. Singapore is the Centre of Excellence for our R&D and the birthplace of many of our innovative and leading BPaaSS services and also powerful processing tools & framework.
TalariaX is a mobile application developer, focusing on SMS, MMS and 3G technology for the enterprise. Our appliance based sendQuick SMS gateway is used in more than 600 companies worldwide in various industries. Some of the applications include SMS for IT alerts and notifications, business process enhancement, marketing, promotion, emergency messaging and others.
The Wall Street Journal is the leader in global business news for Asia. Since 1976, it has provided indispensable news and analysis of regional and global business developments for an influential pan-Asian audience of corporate and government decision-makers. The Wall Street Journal Asia has been voted the most "important business reading" among international daily newspapers in Asia in every ABRS/BE:ASIA study since the survey's inception in 1985. The Wall Street Journal's China staff won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for coverage of the consequences of the nation's rapid growth. The Wall Street Journal Asia and Far Eastern Economic Review, both of which are published by Dow Jones & Co., won a combined six awards in the 2008 Society of Publishers in Asia awards for Editorial Excellence. Edited and published in Hong Kong, The Wall Street Journal Asia is printed in eleven Asian cities-Bangkok, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Mumbai, New Delhi, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo-and distributed throughout the Asia Pacific region. More than 75% of its subscribers are Asian. The Wall Street Journal's web site for Asia is at www.asia.wsj.com and homepage for India is at www.india.wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal is also published online in Chinese at www.cn.wsj.com.
ZDNet Asia is a comprehensive online resource for enterprise and SMB technology decision-makers in Asia, featuring 400 fresh pieces of original content per month from our Asia and global editorial teams, including tech news and insight with regional perspectives, and over 60,000 whitepapers, case studies and webcasts in our IT library.
Business professionals in charge of technology rely on ZDNet Asia to deliver deep insight into IT planning, vendor consideration, and product selection.
ZDNet Asia reaches IT professionals and business influencers throughout South East Asia and Hong Kong. It also helps audience stay abreast of the latest technology developments, and provides marketers access to an engaged audience and opportunities to "interact" with them through effective online strategies and campaigns.
Asian Banking Review is the only all digital finance publication in Asia to be written by banking experts for the Asian finance community. In twelve monthly issues throughout the year, ASIAN BANKING REVIEW brings you:
in depth Analysis of Asia's hottest banking news
People moves and news
Market changes and forecasts
Interviews with the who's who of Asia's banking scene
Interviews with the who's who of Asia's banking scene
a year round calendar of Events, seminars, training and awards
a monthly Newsletter
league tables
Combining original editorial with in-depth analysis of the topics that matter. Interviews with Asia's leaders in banking and financial markets, and invitations to exclusive events will keep you in touch with the people who drive Asia's banking industry. Read ASIAN BANKING REVIEW for original content, insight and analysis
CNBC Asia Pacific CNBC Asia Pacific is uniquely positioned to speak to viewers from across the region. Headquartered in Singapore, the network provides nine and a half hours of live Asia-produced programming, which is complemented with coverage of live market action from Europe and the US. CNBC Asia Pacific's channels, which include CNBC Asia, CNBC-TV18 (India), CNBC Pakistan, Nikkei-CNBC (Japan) and soon to be SBSCNBC (South Korea), are available in more than 21 countries across the Asia Pacific region. CNBC also has a strategic alliance with Shanghai Media Group, which wholly owns a subsidiary, China Business Network. The channels are distributed via satellite, cable and terrestrial broadcast networks, as well as broadband. CNBC content is also distributed on the 3G telecommunication platforms throughout various markets. For more information
Enterprise Innovation is Asia's leading bi-monthly magazine and web portal for enterprises seeking to align IT with their business strategies.
Enterprise Innovation has a mission-to champion the use of information technology as a vehicle to innovate business. To this end, we aim to capture the latest trends in business processes, information technology and industry developments with Asian-based case studies and real world solutions to help Enterprises manage the alignment of IT with business strategy.
The strategic goal of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) is to cultivate a vibrant and competitive infocomm industry in Singapore - one that attracts foreign investment and sustains long-term GDP growth through innovative infocomm technology development, deployment and usage in Singapore - in order to enhance the global economic competitiveness of Singapore.
The Asian Bankers Association (ABA)
was organized in Taipei on October 29, 1981 as one of the service councils of the Confederation of Asia Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CACCI). Then called Asian Bankers Council, the ABA aimed to provide a forum for advancing the cause of the banking and finance industry in the region and promoting regional economic cooperation. ABA's membership currently includes over 100 of the leading banks from some 23 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
The ABA was established with the following primary objectives:
to provide a venue for an exchange of views and information on banking opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region;
to facilitate the meeting of bankers in the region in an atmosphere of fellowship and friendship;
to encourage joint activities that would enhance the role of its members in servicing the financial needs of their respective economies and in promoting regional development; and
to undertake projects that will encourage trade, industrial, and investment cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
ABA holds a general meeting every year. It also conducts, in conjunction with the general meeting, annual seminars to broaden the perspective of members on the situation and opportunities in the region. In addition, workshops are held to enable members to exchange their views on current developments and issues in the banking industry.
Other activities include an information program, which consists of the publication of the ABA Newsletter, the Journal on Banking and Finance, and the Asian Banking Digest (a joint publication of ABA and ADFIAP); and a professional development program, which includes exchange programs and training courses on banking and finance and advanced banking management conducted with leading training institutes in the region, such as the Asian Institute of Management in Manila.
International Enterprise (IE) Singapore is an agency under the Ministry of Trade and Industry spearheading the development of Singapore's external economy.
Our mission is to promote overseas growth of Singapore-based enterprises and international trade. With a global network in over 30 locations and our 3C framework of assistance - Connections, Competency, Capital, we offer products and services to help enterprises export, develop business capabilities, find overseas partners and enter new markets.
At the same time, we work to position Singapore as a base for foreign businesses to expand into the region in partnership with Singapore-based enterprises. Singapore's unique advantages of strategic location, stable government, competitive workforce, and pro-business environment make it an ideal launch pad for globalisation.
IE Singapore assists enterprises across a wide range of industries with focus on seven key clusters: Business Services, Environmental & Engineering Services, Infocomm Technology, Infrastructure Services, Lifestyle, Transport & Logistics and Technology Business.