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AXA Affin General Insurance recently won double awards at the Asian Banking and Finance Insurance Asia Awards 2016. They have grown over 1.4 million customers in Malaysia and has a strong footprint of distribution channels including brokers, bank partners and over 4000 agents nationwide. With us today is Rebecca Tan, CMO at AXA Affin talks about how they are embracing digital innovation into their...

Small companies in the palm oil industry view the downstream sector with apprehension due to the high capital and R&D needed to establish refineries and the production of oleochemicals and oleo derivatives. However, our guests today, Rosidah Radzian, Director of the Product Development Research & Advisory Services and Yeong Shoot Kian, Head of Synthesis & Product Development Unit, disa...

The new Companies Bill 2015 was recently passed at the Dewan Negara. The changes made were aimed at improving internal control, governance and corporate responsibility. How will this impact entrepreneurs and startups who are looking to venture into their own establishment? Wong Mun Hoe, legal expert from MunHoe & Mar will share more insights into the impact. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

With Brexit, there have been many concerns raised by the motor industry, chief among them, the possibility of a skills shortage. Although the impact is predominantly felt in the UK automotive industry, there may be a ripple effect for the automotive industry everywhere else. Steve Nash, CEO of the UK-based Institute of Motor Industry shares the current changes in the motor industry in the UK. See...

In the latest MyExpatriate Market Pay survey , Malaysia has the lowest total expatriate pay package in the regional list – falling two places from last year, now behind Sri Lanka and Pakistan. With such an adversity, the task of getting foreign talents becomes much harder than before. What can companies do to not only retain their foreign talents? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...

Focused on the provision of holistic solutions based on the tenets and principles of Shariah law, HLISB offers its customers a wide range of solutions which amongst others include structured finance, business and corporate banking, personal financial services, Islamic global markets and wealth management.  HLISB also pursues the development of its own business niche in fee-based income and Is...

All businesses started from entrepreneurship. However, as they grow bigger they begin to face bureaucracy issues. Anwar Jumabhoy from BCE Consulting saw this problem and decided to embark on a research and interviewed over 100 business heads in Malaysia, India, US, Singapore and Australia. He will be publishing a book titled 9 Entrepreneurisms which serves as a guide on “hard-coding” e...

The technology boom has provided increasingly varied job opportunities within every facet of each industry. However, the uncertainties of economic and social seasonality also inevitably lead to the volatile characteristics of the job market. Sally Raj, Managing Director of Robert Walters Malaysia, is here to share with us the Asia Job Index report of 2016. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

Academic-turned-entrepreneur, Dr Abdul Reezal is now the Executive Director of Steinbeis Foundation Malaysia. Steinbeis is a system and organisation with the main focus to bridge the world of academia and industry. And recently, they introduced an initiative called the Business Transformation Centre, where all manufacturing businesses are encouraged to take advantage of this centre to help solve l...

Mother of two, Sumangala Devi from Icart Malaysia has been eyeing on a professional HR certification by AHRI but found it was too expensive. After the introduction of 1MalaysiaGRIP by HRDF to harness potential of talents, KPintar Academy approached Sumangala and offered her the AHRI certification last year. Today, both Sumangala and RA Thiagarajah, CEO of KPintar highlights the need to upskill and...

Chris Hillier and Sunder Nagalingam are the most recent Endeavor Entrepreneurs, following the recent selection in May 2016 at the International Selection Panel in Madrid, Spain. Traditional businesses make the bulk of the SMEs in Malaysia and they often face funding challenges. Chris and Sunder talk about how they navigate these challenges and share their fundraising strategies.  See omnystud...

Seven years ago, founder of Reebonz saw a gap in the luxury market. Since day one, Daniel Lim always believed in delivering the best experience to wow his customers and he calls it the Reebonz experience. Today, they have expanded to eight countries in Asia Pacific including Australia, Indonesia, South Korea and Taiwan among others.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the advent of technology, it is changing the nature of our work. David Creelman recently published a book called Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment.  It is especially applicable today with the amount of people being laid off, budget cuts, stress at work and the list goes on. David uses the IBM framework on how the organisation led the work. See omnystudio.com/listener fo...

Malaysian International Food and Beverage (MIFB) is a platform for the F&B industry players to introduce, exchange knowledge and learn about the latest technologies from around the world. Last year they saw some 300 exhibitors from 36 countries and approximately RM144 million worth of sales was generated during the event. Paul Ng from Sphere Exhibits shares some of the highlights for the 2016...

Peer-to-peer lending has become the hottest industries in fintech. And it has reached our shores. Today we have Nikki Kinloch, CEO at SimplyGiving.com, a social crowdfunding platform that has worked with 550 nonprofit partners and social enterprises in 20 countries across Asia. We look at the global fundraising trend and if Malaysia is ready for micro financing and social lending. See omnystudio.c...

Pitch@Palace offers the chance to get your Tech business idea in front of a global audience of influencers who can catapult it to the next level.  Established by The Duke of York, in less than three years Pitch@Palace has helped over 205 businesses grow, with some now enjoying huge global success.  Pitch@Palace made a pitstop at Kuala Lumpur, where 14 hungry entrepreneurs vied for the op...

Nuren Group launched the first Malaysian Venture Capital Quality Equity Crowd Funding (ECF) offer recently. Within the first few seconds of the launching, Nuren Group has received overwhelming response and has raised almost RM300,000. Petrina Goh and Kelvin Leow, founders of Nuren Group share their experience during the ECF campaign. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We have a large amount of unutilised fund from the employer contributions and 30% of this pool fund is now being used to harness potential of talents via 1MalaysiaGRIP. HRDF Chief Executive talks about how the pool fund will solve the nation’s shortage of skilled workforce and how employees now have a choice to select what programmes they need to upskill themselves. See omnystudio.com/listen...

The husband-wife team set out to start an independent bookstore back in 2006 and today, the homegrown Big Bad Wolf event is the biggest book sale event in Southeast Asia. With this success story, they are now expanding into Indonesia and Thailand. How are they coping with the regional market by selling just books? We’ll find out more from the founders of BookXcess, Andrew Yap and Jacqueline...

Established in 1975 in Pakistan, Beaconhouse Group has grown to become one of the world’s largest private schools available in nine countries. In Malaysia alone, they own and operate 12 schools. Jahanzeb Shah, the CFO of the Regional Beaconhouse Group was the person who looked into acquiring schools internationally. We find out what goes into his criteria to acquire a school and how he reviv...

The Malaysian creative industry is one that is thriving in talent but perceived to be lacking in many key areas be it funds, life skills or being market ready. FSquare is the first holistic initiative aimed to nurture and guide this industry for various trade platforms globally. The collaboration with Fashion Diplomacy International marks the beginning of FSquare and they are currently engaged in...

iMoney founder, Lee Ching Wei was selected as the 8th Endeavor Entrepreneur from Malaysia at the 63rd International Selection Panel in Dubai on March 1-3rd, 2016. This was not an easy ride as he was first turned away at his first Local Selection Panel two years ago. For the first episode of Endeavor Hour, we speak to Ching about his experience at the International Selection Panel together with Ana...

Malati Siniah has been covering the festival all week and she will be giving us with her predictions on what will win at Cannes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lion & Lion, a  full-service digital agency recently formed a new branch of design which is the User Experience design. Jenifer Ooi, the Creative Director began her digital role by working on award-winning websites - Tourism Malaysia, Maxis and recently won a Markies for Best Web Design Idea for the TIME - The Future is Flexible campaign. Jenifer shares how to avoid the pitfalls of awful...

The Center for Asia Leadership (CAL) was established in Cambridge among scholars in the Harvard Community. The regional office for Asia is located in Kuala Lumpur in collaboration with the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation. Samuel Kim, co-founder of the non-profit organization talks about how CAL addresses public needs and problems in Asia through research, development, training and publication initiatives...