In the MEDIA

The Straits Times

• Key management changes at S’pore digital banks GXS, MariBank may signal strategic shifts ahead, 13 August, 2024 (web)

The Edge Singapore

• • What does it take to become digitally resilient?, 30 July, 2024. (web)

The Straits Times

• Merchants in Singapore offering ‘buy now, pay later’ plans see uplift in sales, 22 July, 2024 (web)

The Business Times

• Ant, Tencent ride tourism recovery to capture cross-border payments, 11 October, 2023 (web)

The Straits Times

• MariBank raises interest rate on savings account to 2.88% as digital banks seek to draw customers, 21 September, 2023 (web)

China Daily

• Keeping AI in check, 7 July, 2023 (web)

Nikkei Asia

• From Grab to Ant, Singapore's digital bank race picks up pace, 16 February, 2023 (web)

Nikkei Finance

• “Digibank” division Major banks take the lead, Grab also participates (Translated from Japanese), 19 January, 2023 (web)

The Edge Singapore

• Realising the metaverse, 17 November, 2022 (web)

The Strait Times

• More safeguards needed for ‘buy now, pay later’ scheme to protect younger consumers: Experts, 2 November, 2022 (web)

The Business Times

• In Malaysia, a big push towards going fully cashless, 21 June, 2022 (web)

South China Morning Post

• What makes the e-CNY different from bitcoin? Central bank digital currencies share little with cryptocurrencies, 19 June, 2022. (web)

The Business Times

• MAS orders DBS to set aside S$930m more in regulatory capital over serious service failure, 8 February, 2022 (web)

The Business Times

• Digital banks seen debuting strongly in 2022, but 'long and difficult' path to profitability, 4 January, 2022 (web)

The Business Times

• See you in the metaverse: How VR and NFTs could transform commerce, 27 November, 2021 (web)

The Business Times

• • MAS says DBS digital services outage is 'serious'; analysts expect bank to be fined for 'broad and material' impact, 24 November, 2021. (web)

The Business Times

• • Telcos, solutions providers tipped to join hands for 5G era, 31 August, 2021. (web)

Nikkei Asia

• Singapore taxi giant challenges Grab with ride-hailing trial, 3 February, 2021. (web)

The Business Times

• • Secure ecosystem is key in FAST payment access for non-bank e-wallet players, 1 December, 2020. (web)

The Business Times

• • Safeguards to prevent abuse of tourism voucher scheme, 26 September, 2020. (web)

The Business Times

• • Wirecard scandal puts audit firms, not fintechs, in hot seat, 3 July, 2020. (web1, web2)

The Business Times

• • Have multi-currency account, will travel?: How far will new multi-currency players go in the payments game?, 8 February, 2020. (web)

The Straits Times

• • Honestbee can fly high again: Analysts, 13 May, 2019. (web)

The Business Times

• • honestbee CEO replaced; firm said to be sticking to habitat growth, 3 May, 2019. (web)

The Business Times

• • Grab woos small businesses with suite of financial services, 20 March, 2019. (web)

The Business Times

• • Cisco invests S$25m in cybersecurity centre and first S-E Asian co-innovation hub in S'pore (quoted), 16 February, 2019. (web)

The Edge Singapore

• • Shopping, interrupted (quoted), 24 December, 2018. (web)

The Edge Singapore

• • Finding Fintech's Purpose (quoted), 19 November, 2018. (web)

The Straits Times

• • EZ-Link plans to turn cards into e-wallets with digital push (quoted), 2 August, 2018. (web)

The Straits Times

• • Bid to enable public transit payments via GrabPay, 29 May, 2018. (web)

The Business Times

• • Many recipes but Singapore’s cashless appetite still not sated (quoted on cover page), 28 September, 2017. (web)

The Straits Times

• • Payment by phone soon as Nets card goes digital (quoted on cover page), 13 September, 2017. (web)

The Straits Times

• • Razer keeps promise and submits unified e-payment proposal (quoted), 8 September, 2017. (web)

Le Monde.fr

• • MBA : l’intelligence artificielle, valeur montante des programmes(quoted), 15 March, 2017. (web)

Le Huffington Post (fr)

• • Apple Pay: les facteurs qui lui permettront de décoller... ou pas, 17 January, 2015. (web)

Le Cercle des Echos

• • Late-mover : une stratégie viable pour Apple?, 12 September, 2014. (web)

Le Huffington Post (fr)

• • Tizen, le nouveau système d'exploitation mobile de Samsung, serait-il un véritable concurrent?, 14 April, 2013. (web)

Le Huffington Post

• • L’iPhone 5: Apple perd-t-il son avantage, 30 September, 2012. (web)

Fortune Times (in Chinese)

• • 新加坡推进支付融合  (in print), 3 May, 2023. (web)

Fortune Times (in Chinese)

• • 先买后付,糖果还是毒药? (translated: Buy Now Pay Later, Candy or Poison?), 1 January, 2023. (web)

Global Voice (Council on Business & Society)

• • The Hikikomori Phenomenon - Is IT really to blame?,  21 June, 2022. (web)

WIRED

• • Ride-sharing giant Careem is pushing to reach super-app status, 18 January, 2022.  (web) 

Global Voice (Council on Business & Society)

• • E For Ecosystem: Giving Power To Corporate Purpose, February, 2019. (web)

The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) Journal

• • Degree in Disruption (quoted), September, 2018. (web)

Tatler Singapore

• • Building Purposeful Businesses Through Innovation, 20 March, 2018. (web)

Singapore Business Review

• • Singapore Business Review honours top leaders and companies at the Management Excellence Awards and Business Rankings Awards, 7 December, 2016. (web)

Harvard Business Review (France)

• • Lancer sa plateforme digitale : les 3 erreurs à éviter, August, 2016. (web)

Reflets (ESSEC Alumni Magazine)

• • Pourquoi tant de plateformes de paiement par mobile n’arrivent-elles pas à décoller?, December, 2014. (web)

Reflets (ESSEC Alumni Magazine)

• • Will Samsung’s Tizen Be A Worthy Mobile OS Contender?, 11 April, 2013. (web)

Exame (Brazilian Business Magazine)

• • O enfant terrible e seus inimigos (quoted), 18 April, 2012. (web)

Bulletin HEC (Alumni HEC Lausanne)

• • Mobile Application Market, n°79. November, 2009. (web)

Money FM 89.3

• Is there any possibility for the rise of “Hikikomori” amid the escalation of virtual interaction?, 24 August, 2022. (web)

Money FM 89.3

• DBS suffers worst disruption in a decade - The implications, 26 November, 2021. (web)

eFM101.3, Korea’s No.1 Foreign Language Station, This Morning

• • Fintech, 9 March, 2015. (web) 

France Culture

• • What makes or breaks a mobile payment platform? Apple Pay Explained in 3 Minutes, 20 January, 2015. (web)

Radio Television Suisse (RTS)

• • Le journal du matin, La 1ère, 13 September, 2012. (web)

Radio Television Suisse (RTS)

• • Les Temps Modernes, La 1ère, 23 April, 2012. (web)

The Register

• China's Big Tech companies taught Asia to pay by scanning QR codes, but made a mess along the way, 17 June, 2024 (web)

Forbes India

• The Hikikomori Phenomenon – is Information Technology really to blame?, 31 August, 2023 (web)

CNA

• Digital banks have to do more to woo customers in Singapore, say analysts, 27 June, 2023 (web)

International Banker

• Can Singapore’s New Crop of Digital Banks Achieve Success?, 29 May, 2023 (web)

California Management Review (online)

• Myths and Realities of the Metaverse, 4 April, 2023 (web)

CNBC

• China’s Tencent wants to expand its presence in Singapore — and Chinese tourists are a big reason, 2 February, 2023 (web)

CNA

• New 'buy now, pay later' guidelines: S$2,000 cap a good start but not enough, experts say, 2 November, 2022. (web)

Reuters

• Crypto crash exposes regulators' complacency, 17 June, 2022. (web)

CoBS Insights

• The Hikikomori Phenomenon – Is Information Technology Really To Blame?, 24 May, 2022. (web)

Tech in Asia

• Behind the metaverse real estate rush, 2 April, 2022. (web)

The Register

• Singaporean superapp Grab IPOs – badly – and promises to focus on maps and money, 3 December, 2021 (web)

The Register

• Asia's 'superapps' bundle ride-share, food delivery, even financial services – and they're beating big tech, 25 October, 2021. (web)

BusinessBecause

• Virtual Reality To Startups: How ESSEC Business School Teaches Sustainability (cited), 18 May, 2021). (web)

ESSEC Knowledge

• • “VIDEO: The Factors that Will Make or Break Apple Pay”, 13 January, 2015. (web)

ESSEC Knowledge

• • “Can Apple keep winning the game with a late mover strategy?”, 12 September, 2014. (web)

ESSEC Knowledge

• • “Will Samsung’s Tizen Be A Worthy Mobile OS Contender?”, 11 April, 2013. (web)

ESSEC Knowledge

• • “The iPhone 5: Is Apple losing its edge”, 26 September, 2012. (web)