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Microban International: Leaders in Built-in Antimicrobial Technology Become a United Powerhouse

NORTH CAROLINA, USA – News Direct – 15 July 2021 – Microban® International is proud to announce that it is bringing together its Microban® and Ultra-Fresh® brands and technologies under a single umbrella. Following the initial acquisition of Thomson Research Associates in 2016, Microban International will now completely harmonize the two organizations, as these titans unite to operate as a single company under the Microban International name. By consolidating their services and combining over 100 years of collective industry experience, Microban International can better serve its partners all around the world and continue to revolutionize the industry.

The Microban brand is widely recognized as the world leader in bespoke antimicrobial and odorcontrol solutions, delivering Protection That Lives On™ and redefining surface cleanliness. In parallel, the organization’s newly emergent ingredient brand – Ultra-Fresh – delivers improved freshness for a broad spectrum of surfaces. This exciting move will allow the company to harness the trusted Microban brand alongside its Ultra-Fresh offering to create the broadest and most powerful antimicrobial product portfolio in the industry.

Microban will continue to develop innovative solutions for both product lines, and further extend its turnkey services and partner support – including technical, regulatory, and legal guidance – to remain a well-rounded and trusted advisor for all. With an ever-growing partner base in 172 countries, advanced facilities around the world, and the addition of Microban laboratories and offices in Canada, Shanghai and Taiwan, partners can look forward to even better coverage, support, and market penetration.

Michael Ruby, Vice President of Global Business at Microban International, commented: “Microban is proud to take this step, not only for the company but for its partners. Pushing the boundaries of innovation and building long-standing, meaningful business relationships has always been at the heart of our organization, and this exciting step will allow us to foster, nurture and develop new and existing connections. This is an opportunity for us to move forward; to continue to invest in ground-breaking technologies that benefit end-users, creating the broadest product portfolio in the industry while extending the reach of our valuable turnkey services for all of our partners.”

Joe Lyons, President of Microban International, commented: “This is an important moment for the industry, as we consolidate the power of the trusted Microban and Ultra-Fresh brands under one company – Microban International. At Microban International, our brands are truly our strength, and with this move, we will continue to build our brand presence in the consumer, building, textiles, commercial and healthcare sectors, and leverage our capabilities to become a trusted household name and continue as the reigning global market leader.”

Click here to learn more about Microban International.

About Microban International

Part of Barr Brands International (BBI), Microban International is home to the most trusted and well-known global brands in the antimicrobial, odor control, and sanitization / disinfection markets – Microban® and Ultra-Fresh®. Our organization has experienced over 100 collective years of growth and has revolutionized the industry. As the global leader, our proactive systems keep products cleaner, and control odors better by preventing problems before they start. Microban International drives innovation by combining science and creative solutions that enhance high-quality consumer, textile, industrial and medical products around the world. Today, the Microban and Ultra-Fresh brands and our technologies are featured on thousands of products worldwide. The company is headquartered in North Carolina with operations in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.microban.com.

Company Website

http://www.microban.com

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RangeMe expands into APAC as it broadens product choice 10x for retailers

  • APAC expansion: Leading global product discovery platform, RangeMe, has opened retailers in APAC to their global community of suppliers, increasing their choice of brands from 20,000 to 200,000.
  • Retailers: A range of retailers, including Blooms The Chemist, Good Price Pharmacy Warehouse, Pet Circle and Pet Culture have started connecting to global suppliers.
  • Suppliers: RangeMe’s global supplier base of 200,000 companies will now be visible to retailers in the APAC region.
  • Trend: Online retail sales have doubled in just 5 years across APAC, retailers are keen to optimise this opportunity. Meanwhile, APAC global consumption forms 50% of total global numbers. Demand is growing for a wider range of products.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA and SAN FRANCISCO, USA – News Direct – 15 July 2021 – The world’s largest product discovery and sourcing platform, RangeMe has fully launched its global service to retailers in Australia, New Zealand, and the wider APAC region. Prior to today, retailers using RangeMe in this region were able to access 20,000 local suppliers but will now join their counterparts around the world to access over 200,000 suppliers. Buyers have already started using RangeMe at retailers including health and beauty retailer, Blooms The Chemist, Good Price Pharmacy Warehouse, and pet retailers, Pet Circle and Pet Culture, among others.

Nicky Jackson, CEO of RangeMe

This expansion into APAC comes hot on the heels of RangeMe’s launch in the U.K. earlier this month as it scales operations worldwide. RangeMe first launched in 2013 and is used today by over 12,000 retailers in the U.S., including Walmart, Sephora, Walgreens, and Albertsons. It has quickly established itself as the industry leader for retail product discovery and sourcing by becoming the world’s largest source of brands and products purchased by retail buyers.

Michael Foran, Head of Merchandise Operations at Blooms The Chemist, commented: “We have stores across Australia and with that a diverse range of customers. We challenge ourselves every day to ensure we have the most relevant products in-store to meet their needs. RangeMe will provide us the means to reach global suppliers and help us source products that resonate with our customers. Not only this but we will aim to be faster to market with the latest items through RangeMe for our customers”.

RangeMe helps retailers and their buying teams scale product sourcing efforts with streamlined submissions, simplified discovery tools, and the industry standard digital sell sheet. Buyers can filter searches to find brands and products meeting exact sourcing needs, seamless connectivity and collaboration with suppliers, and offering curated collections to help identify and understand category trends and emerging brands.

“We built RangeMe to connect buyers and suppliers anywhere in the world. Our expansion in the APAC region is a natural extension of this vision. Through this expansion, we will enable buyers a wider view of the market and support them to serve the needs of their consumers. We’re delighted that several retailers have joined RangeMe’s family of buyers looking to expand choice on their aisles. This will be a transformative experience for their buyers,” said Nicky Jackson, CEO of RangeMe.

RangeMe also invites suppliers in the region to join the platform for a front-row audience of the biggest high street retailers globally. It is a single place to represent their brand and products to a network of thousands of retail buyers. RangeMe helps suppliers grow their retail relationships with a platform that gives them the tools and insights to manage their products, market their brand, and build awareness.

RangeMe is the global online platform where retailers and suppliers can discover, connect, and grow their business. Suppliers can showcase their range, bring new products to market, increase brand visibility, and grow sales, while buyers use RangeMe to discover new products, search trends, and communicate directly with brands.

“Our mission has always been to empower retailers and suppliers to be productive and successful. The world has become a smaller place, but it remains distant for forging strong cross-border buyer and seller relationships. RangeMe will bridge this gap for buyers and sellers around the world and ensure extraordinary products hit store shelves faster than ever before,” added Nicky Jackson.

About RangeMe

RangeMe, an ECRM company, is the leading online platform that streamlines new product discovery between suppliers and retailers. The platform empowers retail buyers to efficiently discover innovative and emerging products, while streamlining the inbound product submission process. For product suppliers, RangeMe enables them to grow their retail relationships with a platform that gives them the tools to manage their products, market their brand, and build awareness. Now integrated into the ECRM product offering, RangeMe adds increased breadth and depth to the industry’s most complete sourcing solution for top retailers and product suppliers.

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Authorities Search For Man Who Had Contact With Infected Vietnamese Truck Driver

Authorities in Savannakhet Province are actively searching for a man who was in close contact with a Vietnamese truck driver confirmed to have been infected with Covid-19.

Authorities in Savannakhet Province are actively searching for a man who was in close contact with a Vietnamese truck driver confirmed to have been infected with Covid-19.

PTC Collaborates with NVIDIA and NetApp to Launch AI Integration Hub

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 14 July 2021 – PTC System (S) Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of IIJ Inc. (PTC), today announced the launch of an AI Integration Hub to enable enterprises to better harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and data science to solve complex problems. The PTC AI Integration Hub is built on NetApp® ONTAP® AI, a converged infrastructure stack that combines NVIDIA DGX™ systems for compute and NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF) for cloud-connected storage.

Created to accelerate the deployment of AI application use cases, the AI Integration Hub brings High-Performance Computing (HPC) to the enterprise through a validated architectural design for compute, storage and networking. Organizations that aim to use NVIDIA® CUDA® to stress test and optimize their AI models can now also access the services offered by the AI Integration Hub for free.

In addition, the AI Integration Hub’s easy-to-deploy and holistic edge-as-a-service solution offers testing on stackable smart edge devices that dramatically transforms the deployment of AI and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

SS Lim, Chief Executive Officer, PTC said, “As an innovative solutions provider, we leveraged NetApp ONTAP AI to create the AI Integration Hub for ISVs, customers, organizations, and others. Our goal is to accelerate their applications’ ability to run on a fully-loaded NVIDIA DGX A100 with eight NVIDIA A100 GPUs. By offering to conduct testing for free, we then aim to encourage AI adoption and we believe that this is an investment in our collective future. While there are many organizations that provide compute power for AI testing, the AI Integration Hub is the first to offer AI testing with the latest NVIDIA DGX A100.”

“AI workloads require high performance infrastructure to enable enterprises to run AI training, inference, and data science workloads,” said Ken Chua, Managing Director, PTC. “The AI Integration Hub helps accelerate our customers’ success by creating a simplified path to AI adoption. This reinforces PTC’s commitment toward offering our customers the best-in-class infrastructure, end-to-end security, and data center solutions.”

Recent benchmark testing for organizations, such as PI. Exchange and Speakr, have resulted in incredibly fast and remarkable outcomes. As PTC rolls out the AI Integration Hub in Singapore and across the Asia-Pacific region, it will double down on helping organizations boost their AI initiatives.

PTC is a member of SMART Urban Co-Innovation Lab (SMARTLAB), Southeast Asia’s first industry-led lab for smart cities solutions development, initiated by CapitaLand and supported by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Enterprise Singapore. SMARTLAB will focus on six key industry verticals of advanced manufacturing, digital wellness, intelligent estates, smart mobile, sustainability, and urban agriculture. The AI Integration Hub can play a pivotal role in supporting SMARTLAB projects.

“We are proud to collaborate with PTC to bring the AI Integration Hub to life,” said Mark Leong, Country Manager, Singapore, NetApp. “NetApp ONTAP AI helps streamline data flow and speed up analytics, training, and inference through a data fabric that cuts across edge, on-premises and cloud environments. By delivering unified AI workloads and simplified deployment, we believe that this new solution will enhance businesses’ ability to acquire the insights they need to expand their customer touchpoints, reinvent customer experiences, and achieve their strategic transformation goals.”

“NVIDIA’s accelerated computing technology can help to significantly shorten the time it takes to develop and perfect AI models,” said Dennis Ang, Director, Enterprise Business ASEAN and ANZ Region at NVIDIA. “By enabling access to a world-class accelerated computing infrastructure, the AI Integration Hub is offering companies an opportunity that should not be missed.”

Organizations that would like to test their AI applications and understand the best approach to setting up a secure HPC and AI infrastructure across both on-premises and in the cloud can reach out to PTC at 65-62820255 for more information.

About PTC

PTC System (S) Pte Ltd is a subsidiary of IIJ Inc. that specializes in providing enterprise data management solutions and services to manage the technology challenges of enterprise customers. Our strengths are built upon our passion, total commitment, and vision on data management services to help our customers to achieve the best business results like better performance, investment protection and maximum value. More information at www.ptcsys.com.

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MSIG Hong Kong 2020 Claims Report shows increased use of EASY Claims platform amid COVID-19

Service innovations boost customer satisfaction

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 14 July 2021 – MSIG Insurance (Hong Kong) Limited (“MSIG”) today published its second annual MSIG Claims Report (“the report”) which revealed a significant increase in customers using its industry-leading EASY Claims online platform to submit claims in 2020. The results highlight MSIG’s ability to deliver innovative services to meet the growing digital needs of its customers during the pandemic.

EASY Claims, an award-winning online claims platform launched in 2018, received 26.9% more submissions from customers who took out policies via traditional channels in 2020. Claims submitted through the platform also covered a broader range of products, with a 48.4% increase in claims from non-travel insurance policyholders.

The report showed that over 92% of respondents of Annual Claims Survey rated MSIG’s overall claims experience as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’, an increase of four percentage points from the previous year.

Philip Kent, Chief Executive Officer of MSIG, said: “The encouraging results of our 2020 Claims Report reflect our commitment to continuously improving our products and services to deliver on our promise to customers. Although the pandemic has been a challenging period for the insurance industry, it has sent a clear signal that our customers need more and better digital services to adapt. We will continue to innovate and stand by our customers as a reliable partner.”

Delivering on MSIG’s service pledge

According to the report, MSIG honoured claims totalling HK$466.6 million in Hong Kong and Macau in 2020 and achieved a claims settlement ratio of 91.1% for all claims made during the period. Despite the impact of COVID-19, MSIG maintained its service pledge to acknowledge claim submissions within two working days and settle claims within five working days.

In terms of settlement ratios by class, the top five in 2020 were Employees’ Compensation in Hong Kong (100%), Helper (98.8%), Personal Accident (98.1%), Motor (96.1%) and Healthcare (95.1%).

Enabling partners and intermediaries

In March 2021, MSIG upgraded the business and claims management features of its EASYi Claims and Policy Management Portal to help intermediaries better serve their clients. MSIG’s business partners can now access client documents and monitor claims from anywhere on a single application. These process improvements are not only time-saving but also creating a positive impact on the environment by reducing the need for printing.

MSIG also implemented a number of security protocols on the portal to further protect records and prevent hacking, including time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) tokens.

Protective measures during COVID-19

MSIG introduced a variety of measures at the onset of the pandemic. In addition to the EASY Claims platform whereby customers were able to submit claims online without the need for physical documentation, MSIG provided remote water damage assessments through interactive video tools, reducing the need for physical visits from claim specialists. This lessened the risk of exposure to COVID-19 for the company’s employees and customers as well as helped minimise claim processing times.

MSIG also acted quickly in providing travel insurance premium refunds for journeys impacted by COVID-19.

To assist its marine insurance customers affected by the pandemic, MSIG’s claims specialists advised on ways to reduce their risk exposure and implement controls, such as adjusting their packing and delivery methods to minimise delays. As the COVID-19 situation worsened, the company also expedited claims payments to provide additional support to businesses dealing with unexpected operational disruptions.

Ongoing industry recognition

In 2020, MSIG continued to gain recognition for its exceptional products and services. It received industry accolades, including “Best Design App – Silver award” at the DigiZ Awards 2020; “Excellence in Change Management – Gold award”, “Excellence in Learning & Development, Gold award” and “Excellence in Innovative Business Solutions – Silver award” at the HR Distinction Awards 2020; “Insurance Initiative of the Year – Hong Kong” at the Insurance Asia Awards 2020; and “Best Loyalty Programme – Finance & Insurance, Gold award” at The Loyalty & Engagement Awards 2020.

About MSIG Insurance (Hong Kong) Limited (“MSIG Hong Kong”)

MSIG is a member of the MS&AD Insurance Group, Asia’s leading general insurance brand with presence in 46 countries and regions globally. The Group is amongst the world’s top 10 non-life insurance groups based on gross revenue*. It is the number one Japanese insurer with A+ Stable credit rating. With over 40,000 employees world-wide, MSIG is represented in all ASEAN markets as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Korea, India and Taiwan.

A wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Limited, MSIG Hong Kong offers a wide range of solutions and services through an extensive distribution network including agents, brokers, and bancassurance alliances with leading banks. It has been providing general insurance solutions to customers in Hong Kong for more than 160 years, dating as far back as 1855.

*2020 Fortune Global 500, Property & Casualty Insurance Category


#MSIG #MSIGHongKong

A Pre-Dubai Expo Event to Familiarize Hong Kong and Mainland Business Communities to Tap into the Booming Markets in the UAE

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 14 July 2021 – Senior executives from more than 150 local and mainland businesses joined an online forum jointly organized by the Consulate General of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Hong Kong and the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) on 12th July to learn and explore business opportunities in the UAE, which has Hong Kong and mainland China among its leading trade partners.

The UAE Investment Opportunities Webinar was organized as a prelude to the Expo 2020 Dubai which is due to begin on 1st October this year. At the webinar, 10 representatives from heavy-weighted investment authorities from Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah (see Annex) presented their projects on real estates, finance, creative industry and healthcare, which are lucrative opportunities for foreign investors. They also shared information about investment regulations and the latest business environment in the UAE.

In her opening remarks, Mariam Alshamsi, UAE Acting Consul General to Hong Kong, encouraged local business communities to tap into the UAE’s booming markets in FinTech, blockchain technology, healthcare, medical tourism, education, culture and arts, riding on the opening of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) in Dubai this year.

CGCC Permanent Honorary President Dr Jonathan Choi reflected that the CGCC has been working closely with the UAE for a very long time, building connections with local chambers and businessmen. He commended that “UAE has a well-established infrastructure, stable political system and one of the most liberal trade regimes in the Gulf region.” Hence, the UAE continues to be increasingly important, relevant, and attractive to investors around the world.

Calling for participation in the Expo 2020 Dubai in October

Upon the conclusion of the much-anticipated UAE Investment Opportunities Webinar , the Consulate encouraged all parties who are interested in the Belt and Road Initiative to partake in the Expo 2020 Dubai, a mega event set to take place from 1st October 2021 to 31st March 2022, that will bring together delegates of corporations, governments and non-governmental organizations from 192 countries and regions to discuss and explore the opportunities to collaborate on business, mobility and sustainability, connecting dozens of millions of people.

Annex 1 – The list of the 10 high-profile UAE presenters

Fatima Mohammed Al Hammadi (VP, Commercial Commercial & Business Development, ZonesCrop, Abu Dhabi Ports https://www.adports.ae/core-business/business-subsidiaries/zonescorp/);

Humaid Omran Al Shamsi (Director, Real Estate Promotion Department, Dubai Land Department https://dubailand.gov.ae/en/);

Mohamed Juma Al Musharrkh (CEO, Invest In Sharjah, Sharjah Investment and Development Authority http://investinsharjah.ae/);

John Cunliffe (Strategic Business Development Director, Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone https://rakez.com/en/);

Daniel Sellers (Chief Representative, China International Offices, Dubai Chamber https://www.dubaichamber.com/);

Rania Krimeed (Head, Professional Services of Business Development, Abu Dhabi Global Market https://adgm.com/);

Marwan Al Naqi (Director, Strategy and Corporate Excellence Department, Dubai Culture and Arts Authority https://dubaiculture.gov.ae/en/Pages/default.aspx);

Ali Hassan (Senior Representative for Europe and North America, Dubai International Financial Centre https://www.difc.ae/chinese/);

Jaffar Bin Jaffar (Director, Property and Sales Operations, Asset Management, Dubai Healthcare City Authority https://www.dhcc.ae/);

Faisal Jassem (Senior Manager of Sales, Jebel Ali Free Zone https://jafza.ae/).

About the UAE

The UAE was one of the earliest countries to join the Belt & Road Initiative. Apart from being Hong Kong’s largest trading partner in the Middle East and being its 16th largest trading partner in 2020, UAE is also the largest export market and the 2nd largest trading partner of China in the Arab world. In recent years, the country has managed to undergo economic diversification from an oil-driven economy to developing non-oil sectors. It has employed an array of open policies for foreign investors, including waiver of withholding taxes, freehold ownership of land, 100% company ownership, restriction-free on employee nationalities, protection under the international financial regulatory regime and so on. Those preferential treatments have attracted many renowned organizations to set up their operations in the UAE.

About the organizers

The Consulate General of the UAE in Hong Kong is committed to fostering bilateral ties between UAE, Hong Kong and China in the spirit of the Belt and Road Initiative as well as the Greater Bay Area plan, by connecting counterparts and curating events in the economic, cultural, education, media and charity fronts.

Official website: https://www.mofaic.gov.ae/zh-tw/missions/hong-kong

Social media: Instagram & Twitter @UAEConsulateHK

Expo 2020 Dubai official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUM97JjAG1c

The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong is one of the oldest and largest chambers of commerce in Hong Kong with a membership of over 6,000 local Chinese associations, companies and individuals.

Official website: https://www.cgcc.org.hk/en/

#UAEConsulateHK

Nearly a Quarter of Exploits Sold on Cybercriminal Underground Are More Than Three Years Old

Trend Micro research warns of threat from unpatched legacy vulnerabilities

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 14 July 2021 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, released new research urging organizations to focus patching efforts on the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk to their organization, even if they are years old.

Trend Micro Research found that 22% of exploits for sale in underground forums are more than three years old.

To view a full copy of the report, The Rise and Fall of the N-day Exploit Market in Cybercriminal Underground, please visit: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hk/security/news/vulnerabilities-and-exploits/trends-and-shifts-in-the-underground-n-day-exploit-market.

“Criminals know that organizations are struggling to prioritize and patch promptly, and our research shows that patch delays are frequently taken advantage of,” said Tony Lee, head of consulting at Trend Micro Hong Kong and Macau. “The lifespan of a vulnerability or exploit does not depend on when a patch becomes available to stop it. In fact, older exploits are cheaper and therefore may be more popular with criminals shopping in underground forums. Virtual patching remains the best way to mitigate the risks of known and unknown threats to your organization.”

The report reveals several risks of legacy exploits and vulnerabilities, including:

  • The oldest exploit sold in the underground was for CVE-2012-0158, a Microsoft RCE.
  • CVE-2016-5195, known as the Dirty Cow exploit, is still ongoing after five years.
  • In 2020, WannaCry was still the most detected malware family in the wild, and there were over 700,000 devices worldwide vulnerable as of March 2021.
  • 47% of cybercriminals looked to target Microsoft products in the past two years.

The report also reveals a decline in the market for zero-day and N-day vulnerabilities over the past two years. This is being driven in part by the popularity of bug bounty programs, like Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, and the rise of Access-as-a-Service – the new force in the exploit market.

Access-as-a-Service has the advantages of an exploit, but all the hard work has already been done for the buyer, with underground prices starting at $1000USD.

These trends are combining to create greater risk for organizations. With nearly 50 new CVEs released per day in 2020, the pressure on security teams to prioritize and deploy timely patches has never been greater – and it’s showing. Today, the time to patch averages nearly 51 days for organizations patching a new vulnerability. To cover that gap in security protection, virtual patching is key. It is based on intrusion prevention technology and offers a hassle-free way to shield vulnerable or end-of-life systems from known and unknown threats indefinitely.

About Trend Micro

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro’s cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world. www.trendmicro.com.hk


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GBG Strengthens APAC Leadership in Singapore to Accelerate Growth in SEA

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 14 July 2021 – GBG (AIM:GBG), the global expert in digital identity, helping businesses prevent fraud and meet complex compliance requirements, has announced the appointment of Bernardi Susastyo as General Manager of Asia, Shekhar Bhagat as Head of Alliances of Asia Pacific (APAC) and Ng Han Liong as Head of Presales of Southeast Asia (SEA) to drive GBG’s growth and innovation capabilities across the region.

Last month, GBG announced record financial performance, profits & customer satisfaction, registering a year-on-year constant currency organic revenue growth of 12.1 per cent between FY2020 and FY2021. To further bolster this growth momentum, the new senior hires will lead and drive penetration in key markets across APAC. In addition to these senior hires, the company is continuing to invest in talents and is recruiting more than 100 roles globally, out of which 42 per cent will be within the APAC region.

The pandemic has accelerated digitalisation in this region, which resulted in a hyper growth in the digital population; in Southeast Asia alone, more than 40 million users came online in 2020. With today’s digital-first economy, financial institutions (FIs) need more robust measures to bridge the increasing volume and complexities of online fraud, financial crime and cyberthreats. To deepen GBG’s engagement with senior decision makers and further enrich fraud and compliance management, the company has made the following senior appointments based out of Singapore:

  • Bernardi Susastyo joins as General Manager of Asia. Bernardi brings with him close to three decades of industry experience and has held various senior leadership positions at Advance.AI, Experian, and SAS. With his extensive knowledge of the SEA financial services industry, Bernardi will be responsible for bolstering GBG’s foothold and establishing market leadership especially in the SEA region.
  • Shekhar Bhagat joins as Head of Alliances of APAC. Shekhar will be responsible for establishing technology and data partnerships, as well as a network of channel partners to support local sales activation across APAC. Today, GBG’s Intelligence Center ingests datasets from both APAC and global technology and data partners to offer nine built-in capabilities that enriches fraud detection using data such as IP, device, email, endpoint threat, location, mobile, and social media. By bringing more APAC technology and data partners onboard, GBG aims to add more regional datasets to provide customers with even stronger dynamic data intelligence to enrich fraud detection and prevention. Shekhar joins from Experian, where he was Director of Partnership for SEA.
  • Ng Han Liong joins as Head of Presales of SEA. Han Liong is an experienced regional solution leader and compliance specialist, having spent the last 10 years in Oracle, Thomson Reuters, and IBM working with the financial services sector. He will facilitate market penetration efforts and sales readiness to expand our reach into Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines further. With the addition of this role, GBG is committed to continue engaging with customers in a consultative style – providing more holistic solutions to both new and existing customers.


Dev Dhiman, Managing Director, APAC at GBG shared, “Bernardi, Shekhar, and Han Liong, bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to GBG that will enable us to boost our presence in the region and position ourselves for long-term sustainable growth in Southeast Asia, and across APAC. Today, GBG is well-positioned as APAC’s leading fraud, compliance, identity and location intelligence solution provider, for both large and small organisations across multiple industries. Having these new hires onboard will enable us to grow from strength to strength.”

“Singapore is Asia’s premier business and tech hub with excellent regional and international relations, local talent pool, and collaborative tech ecosystem in the financial services space. Leveraging on these resources, the team will bring to market sustainable solutions and create robust partnerships across data, technology, and channels that can help financial institutions improve the detection and prevention of emerging financial crime. ” continues Dhiman.

Rest of APAC

In addition to investing in talent and growing its leadership team in Singapore, GBG is also increasing its technology footprint in Malaysia. The technology team size in Malaysia has grown by four times to focus on innovating the next-gen financial crime platform. This investment is critical to keep our award-winning solutions ahead of evolving financial crimes. Further south in APAC, our acquisition of greenID identity verification solution, and Loqate location intelligence solution, has seen a healthy year-on-year growth. These solutions are serving a number of verticals including financial services, fintech, wagering, telco, government, retail, and education in the Oceanic region today and their strong market fit would benefit customers in Asia as we broaden our identity verification and location intelligence product portfolio in the coming months.

Technology Leadership

As the category leader across three Chartis RiskTech Quadrant®— Enterprise Fraud Management, Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML)—GBG is committed to innovating and fortifying defences to be more proactive and agile against the burgeoning threat of Financial Crime 4.0. Helping organisations build digital trust with modern fraud and compliance platform with dynamic data intelligence and AI is a prime focus for APAC.

For more information about GBG’s range of solutions in APAC, click here.

To view GBG recent awards and achievements, visit us here.

To read our recent press releases, click here.

About GBG:

GBG offers a range of solutions that help organisations quickly validate and verify the identity and location of their customers. Our market-leading technology, data and expertise help our customers improve digital access, deliver a seamless experience and establish trust so that they can transact quickly, safely and securely with their customers online.

Headquartered in the UK and with over 1,000 team members across 16 countries, we work with 20,000 customers in over 70 countries. Some of the world’s best-known businesses rely on GBG to provide digital services and keep the economy moving, from US e-commerce giants to Asia’s biggest banks and European household brands.

To find out more about how we help our clients establish trust with their customers, visit www.gbgplc.com/apac, follow us on Twitter @gbgplc or LinkedIn.

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