How Asia is Changing The Travel Experience at Every Step
Asia is a great observatory for travel trends as well as being an experimental playground for innovation. According to the World Tourism Barometer, Asia Pacific has been the fastest growing region in the world for international tourist arrivals between 2005 and 2014,. A report from Mastercard expects that Asia Pacific will continue on this growth […]
3 Trends Reshaping Retail in Asia
Asia is and will be a major player in the changing retail landscape. It is projected that the value of retail sales in Asia Pacific will reach US$11.8 trillion by 2021, representing a tremendous opportunity for businesses to get involved and accelerate a new phase of growth. Today, e-commerce is just 14.7% of current total […]
3 Trends Reshaping FMCG in Asia
Asia-Pacific’s fast growth is set to impact and transform patterns of consumption in the region. It is largely driven by the consumption growth of Asia’s middle class. Today, about half of the world’s middle-class population live in Asia. This figure is expected to increase to two-thirds by 2030. Middle-class consumption has also followed the same […]
Learn From the 5 Tech & Insurtech Companies Reshaping Insurance Distribution in Asia
Asia, excluding Japan, accounted for 76% of the increase in the global insurance business last year, with China accounting for more than two thirds of this, according to Allianz Research. Opportunities in Asia are tremendous as there is still a very large portion of Asia’s 4.4 billion population that is underinsured. But the traditional […]
[INFOGRAPHIC] How Will the BATX's Investments Impact Your Business in 2018?
Chinese tech giants have seen a blockbuster year of growth, acquisitions and investments. Commonly referred to as the BATX (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent & Xiaomi), the growth boom has been mainly led by Tencent and Alibaba, who have grown to US$527.5 billion and US$475.6 billion in market capitalisation respectively. Tencent had even managed to briefly overtake Facebook […]
[INTERVIEW] Discover how Policypal, the first graduate from the "Sandbox" in Singapore, is disrupting insurance
Insurtech, poised to disrupt the insurance industry, was one of the hot topics in corporate innovation in 2017. One startup from Singapore has been in the spotlight after graduating from the Singaporean regulatory sandbox : PolicyPal, an online platform for people to organize and understand their insurance policies, all in one place. The startup powered by […]
[Video] What Has Been The BATX's Strategic Moves This Year?
The BATX (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi) are the Chinese companies mirroring the West’s GAFA (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple). These giants might have grown in the shadow of their Western equivalents – due to the Great Firewall. But today they are behind almost every digital innovation in China that is transforming consumer behaviours. You might hear […]
[Video] 2017's Most Impactful Retail Transformations in Asia
China will be the place to experience the latest retail innovations in 2018. Alibaba’s founder, Jack Ma, has been pushing brick-and-mortar stores – from Starbucks to KFC – to integrate new technologies. His ambition is to create the Retail Experience 2.0 which he calls “New Retail”. Watch our video to get a quick overview of […]
New Retail Experiments in China
The term “New Retail”, first coined by Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma, refers to a new format where technology and data merge online and offline shopping, offering consumers a better shopping experience. With the official opening of fully automated convenience store BingoBox in Shanghai in June, the spotlight on Alibaba’s fresh food connected supermarket Hema, the […]
[Webinar] Are the BATX (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi) the new GAFA?
Chinese tech giants are growing dramatically and spreading. Mainly composed of Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent and Xiaomi, the BATX are the Chinese twins of GAFA (Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, respectively). Not very publicized in the West, these giants are indeed on all fronts in China and expect to go international. The BATX now revolutionize almost all industries. Financial services, transport, health, home automation, retail, everything goes. The BATX grew in the shadows, in part due to the “Great Firewall,” which drove Facebook and Google off the Chinese Internet, which allowed the emergence of these local twins.
