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From warehouse floor to boardroom Daniel Yun’s route into supply chain technology did not begin in a lab or a spreadsheet. It began in a logistics warehouse. Before founding Willog, he ran a traditional logistics operation and saw first-hand where shipments broke down and why customers lost faith in their carriers. One problem kept recurring: The post Sensors, predictions, premiums: How Willog turned shipment data into an insurance biz appeared first on e27.

Every fintech founder in this region has drawn the same slide at some point: the underbanked adult, the missing credit file, the product that will finally reach them. Fewer have noticed that the person on the slide already owns a savings product, and has for centuries. It is called arisan in Indonesia, paluwagan in the The post Southeast Asia’s oldest savings product still has no price for going first appeared first on e27.

Singapore’s Cyber Command has disrupted more than 30,000 Apple iMessage accounts tied to a fraud campaign that has cost victims roughly SGD2.2 million (US$1.7 million) since June, a figure that jumped nearly US$800,000 in the weeks since police last updated the tally on August 5. The scam itself was mundane: spoofed messages impersonating Ninja Van, J&T Express and government The post Ecosystem Roundup: Singapore’s iMessage scam bust exposes a regulatory blind spot appeared first on e27.

Millions of travellers already have phones that can help them stay connected abroad. They book flights with apps, keep boarding passes in digital wallets, use maps to plan, rely on ride-hailing after landing, and message throughout their trips. But many travellers still do not know if their phone supports eSIM. This is the main contradiction The post The eSIM awareness gap is the market’s biggest opportunity appeared first on e27.

I was recently invited to evaluate the performance of a leadership team inside a growing organisation. The company had already gone through multiple rounds of evaluations before I arrived. Capability gaps had been mapped. Consultants had been brought in. AI adoption initiatives had been launched. Leadership workshops had been conducted. Internal reviews had been repeated. The post The transformation ecology crisis: How AI is exposing the hidden fragility of high-performing teams appeared first on e27.

J&T Global Express has delivered the kind of first-half numbers that usually make public-market investors sit up. The Hong Kong-listed logistics company reported revenue of US$7.67 billion for the first half of 2026, up 39.5 per cent year-on-year, while express delivery revenue rose 39.6 per cent to US$7.46 billion. Adjusted net profit more than doubled The post J&T Express leans on Southeast Asia as China parcel growth cools appeared first on e27.

Bitcoin trades at US$73,000.12 at the time of writing and continues to climb. The wider crypto market has risen 4.88 per cent to US$2.48T in 24h, and the move looks less like a random speculative spike and more like a broad repricing of risk. This rally matters because it combines three powerful forces at once: The post US$73,000 and still climbing: How long can Bitcoin ignore the macro storm? appeared first on e27.

Singapore’s fight against scams is moving deeper into the messaging apps people use every day, after police disrupted more than 30,000 Apple iMessage accounts linked to a campaign that has already caused about SGD2.2 million (US$1.7 million) in losses. The Singapore Police Force said its Cyber Command has been detecting and disabling accounts tied to The post Singapore disrupts 30,000 iMessage accounts as scam losses hit US$1.7M appeared first on e27.

Three months ago, I sat in a quarterly risk committee meeting at an Indonesian bank, watching a climate risk update presented in twelve slides over fifteen minutes. The presentation covered taxonomy alignment, sustainable finance commitments, and progress against the bank’s net-zero pathway. It was professional, well-researched, and accurate. It also did not mention the bank’s The post Climate risk’s invisible threat: What ASEAN banks aren’t accounting for appeared first on e27.

For years, Southeast Asia’s startup economy has rewarded speed. Founders were expected to launch quickly, localise faster than global rivals, and chase market share across a region where digital adoption often outpaced regulation. That instinct still matters. But as artificial intelligence moves from pilot projects into banking, healthcare, government services, logistics and public infrastructure, speed The post Why Malaysia’s AI Nation 2030 plan matters for B2B startups appeared first on e27.