Singapore — Giift, a provider of loyalty management solutions, has announced it has acquired majority ownership in Loyolink Marketing, a loyalty, lifestyle privileges, and incentive provision space.

Giift and Loyolink’s combined efforts will expand their service offerings across Giift’s client base and Giift affiliate network, in the GCC but also in other geographies and jointly increase loyalty engagement added value.

On the acquisition, Laurent Xatart, co-founder of Giift, said, “Adding Loyolink to the Giift ecosystem will strategically enrich our offer and allow us to leverage our existing Giift products and services, opening up new possibilities for our customers that are unique in the market.”

Simultaneously, another co-founder of Giift, Pascal Xatart, commented, “Loyolink will enable Giift clients to engage more effectively and more personally with their customers.”

Xatart added, “Enhancing the Giift customer experience portfolio with Loyolink will create a new paradigm for how commerce is managed digitally as it will deliver a higher personalization, helping organizations ensure every engagement is relevant and impactful.”

Meanwhile, Naresh Handa, co-founder and CEO Loyolink Marketing, shared, “I am personally very excited to see that Loyolink’s pool of knowledge, best industry practices, and merchant partner nuances can now be shared across Giift’s global presence in countries like Americas, APEC, MENA, and Europe.”

Singapore – Loyalty solution provider Ascenda launches Nexus, its rapid launch option feature specially designed for its bank customer engagement solutions, enabled by an innovative zero-integration approach.

Through the platform, Ascenda’s loyalty capabilities can now be deployed in a fraction of the typical setup time and eliminate all technical integration, enabling the rollout of compelling new rewards propositions without resource or time constraints. Setup lead time, complexity, and cost are all reduced by a factor of ten relative to current industry norms.

Furthermore, Nexus supports Ascenda’s entire line-up of points-based and cash-back propositions, including the merchant offers aggregation platform, OffersHub. The full suite of Ascenda redemption capabilities ranging from real-time, everyday satisfiers to premium, aspirational rewards is also available under the new turnkey option.

“Nexus transforms how financial institutions launch rewards propositions, requiring minimal up-front investment and lead-time. Its simple and rapid deployment model unlocks vast scalability for Ascenda’s suite of customer engagement solutions,” said Mark Mullinix, head of strategy and partnerships at Ascenda.

Nexus expands the breadth of banks served by Ascenda beyond its current clients in over 30 markets, providing a customer engagement solution for thousands of established banks and neobanks globally who are looking for rapid deployment with minimal complexity and cost.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – BIGLIFE, Asia airline AirAsia’s loyalty marketing platform, which operates the BIG Loyalty program, has unveiled a rebranding, now sporting a new name “BIG Rewards” and a new logo, in response to the brand’s diverse offerings and fast e-commerce transactions.

The recent rebranding comes with BIG Rewards’ 10th year milestone anniversary last year, in which it enabled members to redeem a variety of lifestyle deals using BIG Points, and BIG Xchange, an instant points exchange hub, giving members the freedom to convert their desired points instantly on one single platform.

“The word ‘Rewards’ spells out the benefits for our members and is a stronger and more attractive proposition in today’s e-commerce world. Under the new brand name, BIG Points will continue to power the airasia.com ecosystem as a digital loyalty currency, rewarding BIG Members with BIG Points and greater savings as points can be used like cash for payment across all lines of business – travel, shop, food, fresh, etc on airasia.com,” said Spencer Lee, CEO of BIGLIFE.

He added, “The rebranding exercise represents change. BIG Rewards is changing because the world around is changing. BIGLIFE is determined to never stop leading the way in innovation and continuously creating value for our partners and members.”

BIG Rewards has now grown to a comprehensive lifestyle rewards platform that goes beyond flights, including lifestyle, travel, and financial services categories.