OREANDA-NEWS. As part of its investor education efforts, Singapore Exchange (SGX) launched an independent research paper titled “Investing in Financial Technology and Consumer Digital Technology Companies” today. Conducted by independent research firm Frost and Sullivan, the paper commissioned by SGX aims to provide insights to enhance investors’ understanding of the fast evolving digital sector.                                                                                                                                                      

Examples of key findings in this research include the surge in connected devices to 50 billion units globally in 5 years’ time – the equivalent of ten connected devices per person. Another upcoming trend to watch is the rise of Big Data market which is experiencing exponential growth and set to reach US$78 billion globally by 2020.

The paper also uncovers interesting insights from analysing the business models, key drivers and risks as well as valuation metrics of ten key digital sub-sectors, namely Internet of Things (IoT), wearables, social media, ecommerce, epayment, crowd funding, big data and predictive analytics, cyber security, data centre and cloud services and blockchain. Each of these sub-sectors will also be featured in a series of investor education seminars focusing on digital sector that SGX will roll out in 2016.

Mohamed Nasser Ismail, Head of SME Development & Listings, SGX, said, “We’re seeing an increasingly vibrant digital sector in Singapore and investors getting more interested in these companies. The aim of the research paper is to better enable investors to understand the complexities and constantly changing nature of this sector and be better informed.”