Business
UKIBC appoints Indian-origin Jayant Krishna as new CEO
The UK India Business Council has announced that Jayant Krishna has accepted the invitation of the Board to become its new Group Chief...
Singapore-based robotics startup Botsync secures seed-funding from lead investors
Singapore-based robotics startup Botsync has secured seed-funding from lead investors Wong Fong Industries Ltd., SEEDS Capital, Angelhub and...
COVID-19: Singapore SMEs in crisis, SICCI’s taskforce to the rescue
Chandra Mohan Retnam, Partner, Rajah and Tann and head of the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry COVID Task Force, in...
Five Indian-origin techies among UK's Top 50 Women in Engineering 2020 list
Five Indian-origin engineers were named among the United Kingdom's Top 50 Women in Engineering for 2020 list.
Over 500 SMEs accessed new overseas markets with IMDA's Grow Digital initiative
The Grow Digital initiative has helped more than 500 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore gain access to new overseas...
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak appoints Indian-origin Nikhil Rathi as CEO of financial oversight agency
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced the appointment of Indian-origin chief of the London Stock Exchange Nikhil Rathi as the...
From Jab We Met to Surging Ahead
This Indian-origin entrepreneur couple definitely created magic 'Jab they met' and the Medsurge they started a little more than a decade...
CII report finds that Indian companies generate 125,000 jobs in US
A report, 'Indian Roots, American Soil 2020' issued by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) found that as many as 155 Indian...
Indian-origin Prabhakar Raghavan appointed head of Google Search
American tech giant Google has appointed Indian-origin tech executive Prabhakar Raghavan as the new head of its Search and Assistant...
3 Indian-origin business leaders named in Emerging Stronger Taskforce
Piyush Gupta, CEO of DBS; Sunny Verghese, co-founder and CEO of Olam; and Caesar Sengupta, VP, Payments and Next Billion Users, Google, are...
From Jamtara and Dirty Money to the real world of Financial Crime
@ Work with Bharath Vellore, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Accuity, in a conversation with Connected to India about financial crime...
Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry announces Board of Directors for 2020-2022
Eight new members were appointed to the board while nine members from the previous board will continue their term consecutively for the...
MAS launches SGD6 million grant to help FinTech companies amid COVID-19 pandemic
Called the MAS-SFA-AMTD FinTech Solidarity Grant, the initiative is a joint effort by MAS, Singapore FinTech Association (SFA), AMTD Group...
Google and UOB revise SME Leadership Academy programme to help businesses with COVID-19 challenges
Google and UOB are customising the curriculum for the SME Leadership Academy training programme to help business leaders respond to the...
Mukesh Ambani moves ahead of Jack Ma as Asia’s richest person after Facebook deal: Bloomberg
In a massive deal, Facebook Inc. will be investing USD 5.7 billion in Ambani’s Jio Platform - the social networking leader’s biggest...
Facebook invests SGD 8.15 billion in India's Jio Platforms
The tech giant said the investment aims to enable new opportunities for businesses of all sizes in India, in particular, the more than 60...
Indian-American Sonia Syngal appointed CEO of clothing retailer Gap
United States’ clothing retailer Gap Inc named Indian-American Sonia Syngal as the new chief executive officer (CEO) in a bid to reverse...
NRIs can acquire 100% stake in Air India under new government norms
Indian Union Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Prakash Javadekar announced on Wednesday that Non-resident Indians (NRIs)...
LuLu Group chairman MA Yusuff Ali becomes first Indian to receive Saudi Arabia Green Card
The Indian businessman was ranked the richest expat in the UAE by Forbes magazine last year.
Livspace targets Singapore’s USD 5 billion interiors market
In this @Work interview with Connected to India, Ravindran Shanmugam, Country Head of Livspace, Singapore, gives a peek into his personal...
SBI Cards raises SGD 544 mn from investors like Singapore government, MAS ahead of IPO
State Bank of India (SBI) Cards and Payment Services has raised SGD 544 million (INR 2,769 crore) from investors, including the Singapore...
Ajay Banga set to go from Mastercard CEO to chairman from 2021
Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga will leave his position next year and take over as executive chairman, the company announced.
Singapore announces support measures for tourism sector impacted by COVID-19
Singapore Tourism Board (SBT) will be providing tourism companies with more support to upgrade the capabilities of their workers.
India world’s fifth largest economy in 2019, overtaking the UK and France: Report
According to an independent United States-based think tank report, India emerged as the world's fifth largest economy, overtaking the United...
DBS reports record SGD 6.39 billion profits for 2019
DBS fourth-quarter earnings increased 14 per cent to SGD 1.51 billion.