Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam Berhad (BIBD) recently participated at the Brunei Islamic Investment Summit 2013 (BIIS), which was launched by Duli Yang Teramat Mulia Paduka Seri Pengiran Muda Mahkota Pengiran Muda Haji Al‐Muhtadee Billah Ibni Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, held at the Indera Samudra Hall at the Empire Hotel and Country Club, Jerudong.

BIBD is one of the main sponsors of the event, strongly illustrating its support towards the national agenda, which aligns His Majesty’s Government’s aspirations to grow the Islamic banking industry locally as well as creating an opportunity of growth into the international market space. As the largest Islamic financial institution in the country, Alhamdulillah led by His Majesty’s vision 20 years ago, BIBD has achieved various landmark milestones, and is currently at the forefront with its suite of extensive products and service that are innovative, Shariah‐based and highly intuititve to the customers needs. This InsyaAllah will propel more awareness to the public and create unlimited opportunities of growth for our Islamic banking industry to grow steadily.

HRH The Crown Prince graced BIBD’s booth during the event. Mr. Javed Ahmad, Managing Director of BIBD briefed the Crown Prince on BIBD’s latest products and services

HRH The Crown Prince graced BIBD’s booth and on hand to receive HRH was Mr Javed Ahmad, Managing Director of BIBD, as well as officers of the Bank. Mr Javed briefed HRH on the international awards received by BIBD, such as the Best Retail Bank in Brunei, Best Islamic Bank in Brunei and shared on the recent development launch at BIBD such as the introduction of the Tawarruq concept replacing the widely used Bai Bithaman Aajil financing concept, the Wakalah deposit‐based products, Musyarakah Mutanaqisah Home financing product which portrays a more equitable form of home ownership for its customers, eTunai an innovative yet simple payment channel option for customers using the BIBD Mobile application, and Credit Card Equal Payment Plan. This is a true display of BIBD’s commitment to ensure the business is always aligned to the markets’ demands, its products are internationally acceptable shariah concept and the industry’s recent developments.

BIBD, as the largest Bank in Negara Brunei Darussalam continues to strive in its pursuits to bring Islamic Banking industry to a more significantly marked level, at par with the main players in the Asian region, through a robust system platform, innovative suite of products & services, efficient & effective processes and last and not least, an excellent customer service experience, InsyaAllah. Press release and image courtesy of BIBD.

 

Yang Berhormat Pehin Orang Kaya Hamzah Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Abdullah bin Begawan Mudim Dato Paduka Haji Bakar, Brunei’s Minister of Communications with the Brunei delegates led by AITI at this year’s CommunicAsia 2013 at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands

It was great to see both Ministers paying a visit to the Brunei Pavilion at the CommunicAsia 2013. Brunei’s Minister of Communications Pehin Abdullah and Singapore’s Minster of Communications and Information Dr Yaacob Ibrahim toured the 10 participating companies under the flagship of AITI.

This is the 5th year that AITI has been participating in this year’s CommunicAsia and this is a good avenue for our local ITs and SMEs to be exposed regionally. Thank you to the Ministers for their support and their time to visit the Brunei Pavilion.

The ministers at PHMD Publishing booth. Khairi of PHMD Publishing recently signed an MOU with Singapore’s LDR Pte Ltd

The ministers at Bru GPS booth

The ministers at Folec Booth

The ministers at Folec Booth

One of the products from Folec

Hiro of SocialBuzz Advertising briefing of his prototype Gigland to the ministers

The team of SocialBuzz Advertising

Sophia Siu of SilverWings talking to the Minister

Aazzah of NIAT explaining to the Minister

Representing AITI during CommunicAsia 2013

Getting ready for the official group photo

 

The Brunei Darussalam ICT companies and delegates participating in CommunicAsia 2013 were invited by Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) for a networking session with Singapore ICT companies registered with them.  The visit to the SiTF Singapore Pavilion was led by Awang Wallace Koh, Assistant Chief Executive (International Relations) from the Authority of Info-communications Technology of Brunei Darussalam (AITI).

The visit started with a guided tour around the SiTF Singapore Pavilion and followed by briefing by two ICT companies.  The first company to showcase their product was by Inspire-Tech Pte Ltd on their product know as EasiShare.   It is a secure mobile file management for enterprises and government.  It offers enterprise users intuitive user interfaces, making document sharing and collaboration easy.  The file transfer can goes up to 50GB and it overcomes Microsoft Exchange file attachment size limitation with their EasiShare Microsoft Outlook Add-in.  EasiShare also automatically synchronises documents to enterpise storage, which can act as backups.  Lastly, it also provides a mobile apps client which gives users the ability to remotely access, create and share enterprise documents.

Hui Nee of AITI and Sophia Siu of SilverWings at STiF pavilion at CommunicAsia 2013

Brunei delegates briefing on their products and services

The second company was to brief the Brunei delegation was TreeBox Solutions Pte Ltd.  The company’s OnTalk – Secure Enterprise Communicator provides secure mobile communications.  In a single mobile application, OnTalk secures voice calls, conference calls, instant messaging, attachments and SMS on Andriod and iOS mobile devices.  The most interesting feature about OnTalk is that all the critical business contacts, business calls, messages and attachments (data) are stored securely on the enterprise or users’ OnTalk servers.  This ensures maximum assurance and security for enterprises and users regarding their communication needs.

After the briefings, the Brunei delegation mingled with the other Singapore ICT companies at the reception hosted by SiTF.  AITI hopes that through such business matching session, local Brunei ICT companies can extend their reach and contacts beyond Brunei shore.  Brunei and Singapore ICT companies can also look into areas of joint collaboration or product and services development.  A great example was the MOU signing between Brunei’s PHMD Publishing and Singapore’s LDR Pte Ltd on joint product development held at the Brunei Darussalam Pavilion yesterday.  The two companies were brought together during business matching session at CommunicAsia last year.