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The Singapore Management University launches the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition Lite Edition to inspire creative solutions for what’s being dubbed the ‘New Normal’. The winning team will develop its idea within the SMU IIE’s Incubation Program as well as a grand prize of SGD 45,000.

Launched in partnership with Mastercard and The Rockefeller Foundation, the Data.org USD 10 Million Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge seeks to foster and promote innovative, scalable solutions from people and organizations all over the world.

Finastra Senior Managers Arvind Vairavan and Chandra Mohan MJ outline how to remain compliant when structuring credit agreements in an ever-changing regulatory environment.

EfficientIP Senior Technical Consultant Vernon Co offers bite-sized learnings on why SD-WAN alone is not enough to keep networks running. Co elaborates on the benefits of DNS-based application routing as a smart approach to control app traffic routing for early failure detection and simple automatic failover; Co also calls to attention the importance of having a GSLB functionality especially in the cases of WAN failure.

Geo Energy Resources launches a consent solicitation and tender offer for its bonds. GEO Energy Resources Chief Executive Officer Tung Kum Hon says the weakening global outlook and demand for coal has increased its need for additional flexibility in light of current market conditions.

Ride-Hailing Operator TADA, announces strategic investment from South Korea’s Shinhan Bank in Series A Extension Round.

SGX will host Commodities Unplugged from 18 May – 12 June 2020, a month-long webinar series for international participants to share insights into a post-pandemic view of commodity markets, and the macro opportunities offered from an increasingly financialised market.

Zoho ramps up its global assistance efforts with a new Vertical Relief Plan; targeted programs that will be introduced to aid organizations across Education, NFPs, Government and Retail sectors.

ManageEngine Product Consultant Monisha Ravi discusses how SMBs with tighter budgets and smaller teams, can keep up with the challenging and ever-changing IT landscape.

Alteryx CEO Dean Stoecker says COVID-19 underscores the importance of something he has believed in for a long time – data analytics technology complements and enhances human capabilities, whereby anyone can be a data worker.

Singapore-based biotech startup RWDC Industries Limited announces the closing of a USD 133 million two-stage Series B funding round this month. Using nature to battle the world’s single-use plastics problem, RWDC says the funds will accelerate plans to meet increasing demand by industries for alternate packaging plastics.

Salesforce launches Work.com Command Center – a single hub for leaders to get a 360-degree view of return-to-work readiness across places, peoples and projects.

According to Alipay, with the movement of people restricted across the globe, and with the fight against COVID-19 expected to be prolonged into the foreseeable future, we take a look at contactless payments usage across SE Asia lockdowns.

There were plenty of bold predictions and optimism from aviation leaders at an industry-first virtual broadcast event hosted by Inmarsat Aviation and APEX at Flightplan, Singapore.

Helicap, a FinTech-driven firm specializing in alternative lending in APAC raises USD 10 million in its Series A equity round and redeemable preference share funding.