ORIGIN Malaysia | Payment Solutions, SEA Investment Landscape, Grassroot Influencers

China is leading the world in mobile payment solutions, with FinTech innovations like WeChat Pay and Alipay. This is a testament to how Chinse mobile payment tech is a few years ahead of Southeast Asia. In some ways, the success of payment solutions in China highlights facets of the Chinese market which would be difficult to replicate elsewhere. Having said that, Southeast Asia’s digital payment…

Founder’s Interview: ShopBack

ShopBack connects consumers and merchants, bringing direct benefits to both parties. It provides users with a one-stop rewards platform to earn cashback, while delivering performance-based marketing analytics to their merchants. ShopBack works with renowned e-commerce merchants and is leading the wave of smarter shopping in Asia Pacific with its dominant presence in Singapore, Malaysia,…

TechNode Partners Alibaba Cloud To Empower Businesses In Singapore With Digital Capabilities And Expertise To Expand In Asia and China

Alibaba Cloud and Eight Local Partners Launch China Gateway initiative Left to right: Sharon Teo, Singapore Enterprise Chapter Chairman at SGTech; Tan Su Shan, Group Head of Institutional Banking at DBS; Edmas Neo, CEO at ACE; Jane Lim, Assistant Chief Executive at IMDA; Selina Yuan, President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence International; Senior Minister Chee Hong Tat; Dr Derek Wang, General…

TechNode kicks off its 2nd edition of ORIGIN Conference in Malaysia

  Chinese tech companies are on an Asian roll. Alibaba counts Southeast Asia market as one of the primary destinations of its globalization drive. What are the underlying factors pushing Chinese companies to Southeast Asia? ORIGIN, a content track run by TechNode, dives deep into the basis of China and Southeast Asia’s technology development. As China’s home front begins to cool, many…

Founder’s Interview: QIQ Global

Dalston Pung, Co-founder of QIQ Global What’s your story? Hello everyone, my name is Dalston Pung. I am a 31-year-old Entrepreneur from Singapore. I started out my career as an Accountant. However, after a few years of working in the financial industry, I came across an opportunity to accquire a dying DVD rental business. After being in the business for over a year, I managed to create an…

Founder’s Interview: The Wallet Engine

Arish Khajotia, Co-founder of The Wallet Engine What’s your story? My entrepreneurial journey like many other entrepreneurs started from a very young age. I was fortunate to be born into a family of entrepreneurs (even my mum had two businesses of her own, along with three kids) and my earliest lessons into the business world was seeing my father’s charisma in building his ship management…

SWITCH 2018: Last call to save more than 70% on tickets!

With ORIGIN by TechNode’s launch at SWITCH 2018 quickly approaching, we would like to announce three more invigorating panels and fireside chats and introduce the VC Meetup portion of this event. We would also like to remind everyone that by purchasing the ORIGIN by TechNode Pass, you will be granted access to ALL conference tracks and exhibitions happening at SWITCH 2018. This is the final call…