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PwC Singapore welcomes 13 new partners–majority of which work with AI, technology and data

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SINGAPORE, July 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — PwC Singapore is pleased to announce the appointment of 13 new partners, strengthening the firm’s capabilities to help its clients and people move forward with clarity and confidence in an AI-driven world.

With eight of the 13 new partners working with AI, technology and data, these appointments underscore PwC’s continued investment in a future-ready partnership—one that brings together deep sector expertise, human judgement and technology to deliver more connected, insight-led and outcome-driven solutions.

With diverse professional capabilities, the new partners bring deep industry experience across technology, energy, healthcare, banking and capital markets, among others. They will play an important role in helping the firm stay ahead of the AI momentum—combining sound judgment, robust governance, and a strong sense of responsibility in the way AI is leveraged to improve the quality, speed, and depth of how we advise our clients. 

On the new appointments, Marcus Lam, Executive Chairman, PwC Singapore, said:

“This year’s cohort reflects how we are scaling our ability to deliver in the era of AI. Beyond embedding technology and AI across how we think, work and deliver, it is equally important that we stay grounded in what matters most: our people, our relationships and the trust we build through every piece of work. By combining AI with sound judgement and trust, we are helping clients make quality decisions faster.”

“I am proud to welcome our new partners, who will move the needle in shaping how we deliver for our clients as AI and emerging technologies become increasingly embedded into the fabric of how businesses operate.”

The new partners include:

Assurance

Andrew Tan

Andrew focuses on credit and treasury, working with leading local and international banks. His work centres on helping clients navigate complex accounting and regulatory requirements, including emerging asset classes such as digital assets and evolving risk landscapes. Andrew translates technical complexity into practical, workable solutions, enabling clients to respond to change with greater clarity and confidence.

Audrey Tong

Audrey is a trusted financial reporting advisor to clients in the energy and healthcare sectors, with experience across Singapore and international markets. She is often called on for complex and unique engagements, where sound judgement, technical depth, and commercial pragmatism are critical. In addition to supporting multinational clients, Audrey helps Singapore businesses and founder-led businesses strengthen their financial resilience, enhance reporting quality and respond to evolving regulatory requirements. She focuses on simplifying complexity into clear, workable solutions that support confident decision-making.

Dyane Blythe Uy

Dyane specialises in financial services assurance and risk governance with a focus on the insurance and payments sector. With a strong focus on business development, Dyane works closely with clients to navigate complex and evolving business challenges, bringing together the right elements to deliver practical, outcome-focused solutions. She has led regional audits and coordination efforts for regulated, multinational companies with operations across Asia Pacific, ensuring consistent financial reporting and governance across jurisdictions. Dyane is also a subcommittee member of Women in FinTech of the Singapore FinTech Association.

Jack Chew

Jack specialises in assurance and financial reporting, supporting clients across technology, digital infrastructure, energy and automotive sectors. He has deep experience in PCAOB integrated audits, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, and advising on US IPO readiness, with a strong track record of leading complex, large-scale audit engagements and seamlessly delivering global audits from Singapore for multinationals operating across multiple jurisdictions. A strong advocate for responsible AI in audit, Jack applies AI to enhance quality and insight while continuing to provide practical, business-focused solutions and trusted advice to his clients.

Wei Kit Soo Tho

Wei Kit specialises in assurance services within the asset and wealth management sector, with a focus on private markets, particularly private equity and infrastructure. He also works closely with clients to bring new products to market, supporting the adoption of emerging technologies, including through his recent involvement in the audit of a retail tokenised fund. His broad range of experience across the asset management space enables him to deliver practical insights to his clients while also addressing evolving financial reporting considerations, particularly in today’s constantly evolving digital landscape. 

Deals

Bertrand Truong

Making deals happen, Bertrand advises clients on originating and executing M&A transactions, specialising in private equity deals and with a strong focus on optimising outcomes. He supports clients across the full divestment or acquisition process, balancing pricing negotiation, deal certainty and high-quality execution to deliver tailored, end-to-end support for complex transactions. He has extensive experience in private and listed company transactions, leveraging the capabilities of PwC Deals Advisory and its global network, and using AI to accelerate impact.

Khai Chuan Ng

Khai Chuan specialises in Financial Due Diligence and Valuations, supporting financial services clients and top-tier private equity firms across the full deal cycle, from origination and target evaluation to execution and post-deal value creation. He brings deep sector expertise and has led complex, multi-transaction roll-ups across Southeast Asia. He has also stepped in as interim CFO to help clients with post-deal operations and drive value creation after completion. Khai Chuan is also focused on advancing the firm’s AI agenda, driving the exploration and adoption of emerging tools and agent-led solutions to enhance efficiency and deliver greater value to clients.

Risk Services

Bhagya Perera

Bhagya is deeply experienced in cybersecurity, with expertise in safeguarding critical infrastructure and strengthening resilience across complex digital environments. He works with organisations across sectors to design and secure systems from the ground up, including developing cybersecurity capabilities for state-level entities locally and regionally. As AI reshapes the risk landscape, Bhagya focuses on advancing AI security—helping clients decode emerging risks and build secure, future-ready systems, while strengthening their cybersecurity posture as technologies evolve.

Charmaine Wee

Charmaine specialises in internal audit and risk management, with a strong focus on SOX engagements. She supports companies preparing for or listed in the US market across their IPO journey—strengthening internal controls, identifying gaps and addressing risks early to build robust governance frameworks. Known for her problem-solving approach, Charmaine works closely with clients to navigate complexity and deliver practical solutions. She is part of the AI adoption team across governance, risk and compliance (GRC), leveraging AI to realise time savings while strengthening oversight and enabling better decision-making.

Tax

Benjamin Tan

Benjamin focuses on tax compliance and advisory, particularly Pillar Two, with deep experience working with clients across energy, utilities and resources, transportation and logistics, and technology. As disparate systems and data silos continue to limit connected tax compliance for many organisations, he supports clients in transforming fragmented, manual processes into streamlined, technology-enabled, end-to-end solutions. His wealth of experience includes leading projects operationalising tax and Pillar Two compliance for multi-jurisdictional clients, helping to reduce the overall burden and cost of compliance.

Gary Foo

With a focus on the healthcare and pharmaceuticals sector, Gary specialises in intellectual property (IP) structuring, tax incentives, and Pillar Two tax advisory. Supporting multinational corporations in an increasingly heightened tax environment, he finds meaning in translating regulatory requirements into actionable insights that enable confident business growth while building trusted, long‑term relationships. His current projects include supporting MNCs with operationalising Pillar Two globally across more than 20 jurisdictions with differing and diverse local implementation nuances.

Kingston Ng

Focused on delivering with clarity in dynamic tax environments, Kingston specialises in international taxation, tax accounting and Pillar Two tax advisory. Committed to helping clients cut through fragmented data and evolving regulatory requirements, Kingston’s experience includes cross-border restructuring, high-value inbound intellectual property transactions, regional tax, and grant incentive negotiations and business divestures. Kingston is also part of the firm’s core Pillar Two and tax accounting team, and is advancing the use of AI to distil complex rules, enhance consistency and deliver sharper, more actionable insights.

Yan Ling Lam

Yan Ling is a specialist in tax planning and advisory, supporting multinational corporations and high-growth businesses with complex restructuring, particularly in their internationalisation plans. Working closely with business founders and entrepreneurs, she helps clients establish a strong presence in Singapore while navigating complex regulatory, commercial, and immigration and planning considerations. Known for her well-rounded and practical approach, Yan Ling is a trusted advisor who combines deep technical expertise with a strong commercial perspective.

Read more about our new partners at: https://www.pwc.com/sg/en/about-us/new-partners.html

About PwC

At PwC, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We’re a tech-forward, people-empowered network with more than 364,000 people in 136 countries and 137 territories. Across audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals and consulting, we help clients build, accelerate, and sustain momentum. Find out more at www.pwc.com

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Fastest Growing Global Finance Super App Abound chooses Monad to Power its Next Phase of Growth

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Riding record growth after crossing $500 Million in remittances, the super-app built for global Indians announces its next chapter – including a brand-new wallet product, with the waitlist opening soon

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Abound, the super-app for Indians in the US backed by Times Internet (Times of India Group), grew past $500 Million in remittance volumes served in the last year, with US and India markets accounting for the bulk of volumes. Abound is excited to announce the next phase of products being built to serve the global Indian diaspora better. The next chapter will be built on Monad, the next-generation Layer 1 blockchain enabling open access to fair financial markets. With Monad’s technology, it is the best option for Abound’s use cases.

What began as a smarter way to send money home has evolved into a comprehensive super app for NRI life spanning cross-border payments, savings, and everyday benefits designed around the needs of Indians living in the US. Abound has become one of the platforms Indians in the US trust to move and manage money across two countries, with over $500 million in volume served. Abound now plans to serve Indians across the world and expand support with newer products better suited to their changing needs.

A New Roadmap for the global Indian

Building on this momentum, Abound today unveiled the next chapter of its product vision:

A new wallet product: a single home for Indians overseas to hold, move, and manage money across both countries’ multi-currency balances, and instant transfers between US and India accounts, with support for more countries coming soon. Waitlist opens soon; the product launches in Q3 2026.New ways to earn and save: interest-bearing savings and investment accounts, giving NRIs more ways to put their money to work.AI agent-led workflows, including the agentic payment protocol x402 to power the next chapter of Abound’s upcoming product suite. Monad Foundation is a premier member of the x402 Foundation.

“Abound has become the platform Indians in the US trust to move money home; we have moved $500 million since launch” said Nishkaam Mehta, CEO, Abound. “This roadmap is about building agents to seamlessly manage the NRIs entire financial life, with the trust of our community at the center of everything we do.”

“Abound is embarking on an ambitious journey to build a full set of agentic financial services and cross border platform for NRIs along its distribution via Times of India. We’re excited to see Abound leverage Monad’s technology to help accelerate at their efforts into the next chapter,” said Raj Parekh, Head of Payments & Stablecoins.

Powered by Next-Generation Technology

Abound’s upcoming product suite will be built on Monad. Monad is a high-performance, institutional-grade Layer 1 blockchain enabling open access to rewards, AI agents, and fair financial markets on neutral ground. The integration gives Abound the technology foundation to serve the Indian diaspora at scale – with the performance and reliability a community of global earners expects. Monad’s technology underpins Abound’s expanded capabilities as the platform scales into its next chapter.

 

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Xinhua Silk Road: Seven marine test “labs” put in place in offshore waters near Yuanyao port in Weihai, E China

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BEIJING, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In waters north of Yuanyao fishery port in east China’s Weihai City, a recent round of drone marine testings by a local marine equipment institute pooled firsthand data for references to its product R&D.

Such testings that move corporate “laboratories” into the sea are increasingly favored by businesses in Weihai as seven marine testing platforms have been completed in the port area, also the Yuanyao shallow sea sci-tech bay area.

In details, the seven platforms include an offshore self-elevating wharf, a semi-submersible platform, a testing wharf, etc., all of which provide vital support to the technological R&D of related businesses.

Currently, 44 companies have been attracted to settle in the sci-tech bay area, which serves as a key carrier for emerging marine-related industries such as marine electronic information, marine intelligent equipment, and modern maritime services to thrive there.

Near the Yuanyao fishery port now stands the semi-submersible marine test platform, which is the first one of the type in Shandong Province where Weihai sits and also a core part of the national marine comprehensive test site project in Weihai.

As a staff of the sci-tech bay area’s service center introduced, the 44-meter-long and 32.4-meter-wide platform can operate at a maximum water depth of 70 meters and is equipped with multiple supporting systems.

For instance, the power system, test facilities, marine environment observing and monitoring system, and security system of the platform are capable of catering to diverse needs of scientific researchers including short-term on-site operations, instrument lifting and retrieval, and real-time transmission of offshore data.

Apart from these marine testing platforms, the sci-tech bay area is also crafting another seven scientific research platforms to offer all-around intellectual support for the national marine comprehensive test site in Weihai.

While marine testings are ongoing on the testing platforms, onshore zones in the sci-tech bay area are busy with building more innovative infrastructure including the marine data management and application center.

In Weihai, the integrated deployment of offshore, onshore and on-island marine-related platforms is unlocking strong potential for local industries to burgeon.

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Antare launches AI physical security platform, transforming unwatched camera footage into intelligence

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Antare uses AI to automatically review footage from body-worn and fixed cameras to give organisations a complete picture across every shift and site

LONDON, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Antare, a new agentic security platform for body-worn and fixed cameras, has launched. UK-based Antare uses artificial intelligence to automatically review security footage, detect incidents, alert teams and document every event, transforming everyday operations into actionable insight that helps improve performance and reduce operational risk. The platform is compatible with both Antare’s intelligent body-worn cameras and customers’ own existing fixed camera infrastructure.

Antare’s body-worn cameras capture the moments before, during and after every incident, preserving the context that helps organisations understand what really happened, protect their employees, and manage their liabilities. This matters because abuse and violence towards frontline staff is rising and incidents often do not have a defined beginning. Employees no longer have to remember to start a recording in the middle of a confrontation.

The Antare Console reviews all video and audio as it is recorded, and transcribes, indexes and scores each event automatically. Separate AI agents watch for specific signals, including physical and verbal assaults, suspicious behaviour, safety risks, medical events or weapons, and send in-the-moment alerts and live video to colleagues via the Antare App.

Antare also surfaces patterns that manual review is prone to miss, like repeat offenders, theft hotspots and recurring problems across sites. Free text search allows users to investigate further, while daily email summaries ensure key events are never missed.

Available today

Antare offers two models of body-worn cameras that work out of the box for US, UK, and EU customers. The Antare Body-worn Camera Pro is designed for frontline staff in demanding environments where extended battery life, GPS capabilities and rugged durability are important.

The Antare Body-worn Camera Compact is a lightweight alternative, intended for customer-facing teams who need discreet protection during their shifts. The Antare Dock charges four cameras at once between shifts.

Both models, including cellular connectivity and unlimited users for the Antare Console, are available through a simple, all-inclusive monthly subscription, with no minimum order quantity and no fixed term.

One platform, every camera

The Antare Cloud Gateway, coming soon, integrates the full range of Antare’s cloud capabilities with customers’ existing fixed cameras, so body-worn and fixed cameras live in a single console, with no separate systems to manage.

Customers can also choose from a range of pre-configured alarms, as well as configure their own alarms via free text description.

Antare’s own fixed camera range is set to follow in early 2027, supplied and installed by accredited partners. Partners can register interest now at www.antare.ai/partners.

Privacy and data protection

Footage is encrypted on Antare devices and in transit, then erased from the device once it reaches the secure cloud, where access is role-based. Data is stored in your local region – UK, EU or US – and deleted automatically after 30 days unless an authorized user marks it for retention. Antare is SOC 2 Type I certified and GDPR compliant, with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications in progress.

Mark Michaelides, CEO of Antare:

“Antare was founded on the belief that today’s physical security platforms are failing to deal effectively with emerging safety and operational risks, leaving businesses with expensive legacy investments that do not fulfil their evolving needs.

“Traditional security solutions have focused on after-the-fact review, while more modern systems have enabled live alerts. Antare has built a different type of intelligence platform to deliver both, while shortening time from alert to triage and enabling quicker post-incident investigation.

“Following strong results in trials across private security, hospitality and retail customers, Antare is available on subscription for body-worn cameras from today, with the Antare Cloud Gateway coming soon. One console that turns disparate data into action, intelligence, and insights.”

For more information, visit www.antare.ai.

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Picture 1 – Antare CEO Mark Michaelides. Credit: Antare 
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About Antare

Antare is the physical security intelligence platform that turns every captured event into organisational insight. It continuously detects, reviews and interprets everything that happens across every site and operation – so nothing is missed, and every incident is clearly understood.

Starting with body-worn and fixed cameras, and expanding across every capture point, Antare gives organisations the confidence to report accurately, respond effectively, and build a complete picture of risk and performance over time. Antare is headquartered in the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.antare.ai.

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