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According to the 2021 Global Insurance Outlook report by EY: The global insurance industry faces a truly unique moment in its long history. The fundamental disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic equates to an opportunity for the industry to remake itself in line with new societal realities and market needs. In this episode, Ms Kim Yeoh, chief financial officer with Sun Life Asia, talks about t...

Capgemini’s 2021 World Wealth Report (WWR) has revealed the new generation of high-net-worth individuals (HNWI) are significantly more tech-savvy. 71% of APAC HNWIs say that they prefer digital self-service over receiving human assistance, while 72% of HNWIs are investing in cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.  The report also noted that technology breakthroughs, changing social dynamics, n...

Enterprise resource planning solutions, and their earlier incarnations, have been around for nearly half a century. In recent years, large ERP solutions have slipped to the bottom of IT management’s agenda to make way for trendier topics like digital, big data, cloud and agile. But the business benefits of ERP, that of enablement of seamless, end-to-end integration across functions and the process...

Internet of Things are devices that connect to the Internet. Some are sensors that collect telemetry data about their surroundings and relay it to a collecting device via wired or wireless connection to the internet. Others not only monitor but also control the activity of the device they are attached to like an air conditioner or lights. Still, others provide information like the navigation syste...

In an increasingly uncertain world, companies must build stronger relationships across their ecosystems if they are to achieve future growth.  The way we use technology has completely streamlined the way we live, communicate and do business across the globe. Therefore, companies must build and create ways to retain business resiliency, particularly on the cash collection cycle.  In this episode of...

The Capgemini and Efma report, ‘World FinTech Report 2021’ highlights how FinTechs demonstrated resilience during COVID-19. With some verticals recording double-digit growth, and FinTechs beginning to mature, there is greater pressure on incumbent banks to embrace digitalisation far deeper and with more commitment than ever before. During this period, FinTechs proved themselves to be not only comp...

Gartner defines the Internet of Things (IoT) as a network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with their internal states or the external environment. But today’s IoT is very different from the IoT of a few decades back. IoT today is no longer just about backend systems with the goal of operational improvement. There are now IoT projects with bu...

The US National Institute for Standards in Technology (NIST) defines cyber resilience as “the ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises on systems that include cyber resources.” As part of our effort to push the cyber resilience topic into the mainstream of tech, security and business discussion, we’ve invited Peerapong Jongv...

In a February 2021 report, Morgan Stanley’s global head of M&A, Rob Kindler said: “All the elements are there for an active M&A market in 2021, from corporations looking for scale and growth to private equity firms and SPACs looking to invest capital. Just what exactly is driving M&A activities, particularly in Asia, and what is the role of the CFO, particularly in these uncertain time...

Agile started off as a discussion on how to improve product development. That was in 2000. 20 years on, is the context in which it was conceived still relevant? In this episode of PodChats for FutureCIO, Cliff Berg, founder of Agile 2 and consultant and founder of Agile Griffin, and Lisa Cooney, principal agile coach at Axios. They share their views on how Agile 2 addresses the limitations of the...

Not since the introduction of GDPR or the General Data Protection Regulation have we seen a resurgence in discussion around the protection of personal privacy in light of the growing calls against indiscriminate use and possible abuse of customer data. But just how do you deliver or tailor a solution to a customer without violating the rights of the customer to his or her privacy? At the same time...

How business was conducted changed dramatically in 2020 due to COVID-19, driving companies of This 2021, IDC expects worldwide UC&C growth to be driven by customers across all business size segments (small, midsize, and large) with interest especially in video, collaboration, UCaaS, mobile applications, and digital transformation (DX) projects.  In this episode of PodChats for FutureCIO Peter...

A 2020 study commissioned by NordPass revealed that most people, on average, have about 100 passwords to remember. That number increased by 25% from 2019 and is attributed in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, with people doing more things online, and thereby introducing the necessity to generate new accounts. Just how many of these 100 passwords are iterations of a few is up for speculation. The obvi...

Some time back Gartner proclaimed "The Data Centre is Dead". Gartner was clear that the days of the traditional enterprise-owned data centre serving as the sole location to source IT services were waning. According to Statista, in 2021, the US had over 2,670 data centres. China was a distant 4th place with 416 data centres. Should companies still own their own data centres - co-located o...

Gartner says site reliability engineering (SRE) enables organizations to fulfil their reliability needs at scale to support the demands of digital business.  Site reliability engineering (SRE) promises methods to improve resiliency in organizations while they pursue agility in digital transformation.  In this episode of PodChats for FutureCIO, Wes Hummel, Vice President of Site Reliability and Clo...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

At a time when users are clamouring for a way to have easier access to data they need to do their job, security professionals are calling for what looks like the reverse – more controls. Is zero trust what we need? Will it prevent the next Colonial Pipeline, Sunburst or AXA Asia attack? At the 25 May 2021 IBM media briefing on Zero Trust, Matthew Glitzer, vice president, IBM Security – APAC; Chris...

It goes without saying that the workforce experienced a cataclysmic shift to remote models due to COVID-19. Businesses were forced to digitalise in a matter of days, a process that would have traditionally taken months if not years. With the entire workforce working from home, cyber-attackers saw this as an opportunity to step up their criminal activity and exploit vulnerable employees. In today’s...

There has always been a need for protecting private data, but long gone are the days when sensitive customer documents were locked on a filing cabinet at the end of the workday. In our digital world, customers share more information about themselves than ever, across a variety of platforms. We often hear in media and at conferences about advances in technology to catch up with regulations on data...