ScoutAsia launches company research tool forSingapore, Malaysia & Vietnam
1 September 2020 - ScoutAsia, a Nikkei and Financial Times joint information service,announce the full commercial release of Connections+, a powerful interactive
research tool for company and people relationship data across Asia.
Connections+:l

Gives access to reliable, up-to-date registry data for all public and privatecompanies in Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam.

lHas powerful relationship maps that show direct and indirect connections
between companies and people, giving users deep insights that would
otherwise take days of manual work to collate.

lIncludes Entity Profile, RED list, and Entity Information reports.

lAllows users to monitor any shareholding and directorship changes with emailalerts.

Toshio Machida, Managing Director of Nikkei FT Scout Asia Ltd., said: “With this newfeature we aim to make our customers corporate monitoring, risk detection andresearch more efficient, and ultimately to help our customers make better informed
business decisions.”
Daryl Neo, Chief Commercial Officer, added: “Now is a great time to do business inAsia. To be successful, one must have a keen grasp of the business relationshipnetworks in each market. Connections+ is a powerful risk assessment tool when
researching a company for a potential merger, acquisition, partnership or investment.
Traditionally, people would need to manually identify companies, purchase businessprofile reports and analyse data by hand. Connections+ reduces cost and automatesthis time-consuming third-party monitoring task.”

ScoutAsia’s Connections+ maps let users graphically investigate the connections
between companies and people with up to three degrees of separation. A map can be
fully customised and exported as a PDF, and is an essential risk detection tool.
Connections+ is jointly developed with Handshakes by DC Frontiers, an awardwinning data analytics and AI provider based in Singapore. Nikkei and DC Frontiersannounced a business and capital tie-up in October last year.

For more information, please contact <info@scout.asia>
1-minute introduction video:< youtu.be/-RysA9T6Tio>

About ScoutAsia
Jointly developed by Nikkei and the Financial Times in 2018, ScoutAsia is an AI-driven news and company dataplatform focusing on Asia. Combining quality content and technologies, ScoutAsia provides insights & signals on
Asian businesses with the ultimate aim of enabling customers towards better and informed decisions.
ScoutAsia currently curates news from 50+ publications and data from more than 800,000 public & private companies
across the region.
<www.scout.asia>
About Handshakes by DC Frontiers
Handshakes by DC Frontiers is a trusted DataTech company based in Singapore.
Started in 2011, their two founders experienced first-hand the difficulty of discovering connections between persons
and entities. In an effort to solve this challenge, they began working on a solution that combined reliable data withadaptive technologies to enable greater market transparency and faster risk detection. The result is their awardwinning Handshakes App.
They have since further invested in key technologies such as artificial intelligence to improve the speed at which theirclients are able to extract quality, data-driven insights ̶ reducing workflows from months to weeks, days and hours.
<www.handshakes.com.sg/>