And so, shoring up our digital innovation pillar was a key priority for 2025. We knew we could not achieve our vision of Food Without Borders without strong digital innovation driving its core. At our Annual General Meeting in March 2025, themed “Charting the Course towards Food Security”, we shared our commitment to strengthening digitalisation across the Group.

And how did we do?

2025 saw us working to scale and strengthen the Oceanus Digital Intelligence Network (ODIN). ODIN is central to realising our vision of Food Without Borders by powering a more secure, efficient and resilient food trade network globally, especially for Small-Medium Enterprises. It is designed to facilitate the trade of food flows by leveraging AI, data analytics, and payment innovations to deliver faster settlements, greater transparency, and smarter trade finance solutions. We built ODIN from the heart, as food traders, for fellow food traders, and we’re heartened by ODIN’s growth in 2025. We’ve established our presence in the US market, partnering with half a dozen lenders to help finance transactions ranging from $50,000 to $10 million—the ‘missing middle’ that traditional banks overlook. We’ve also joined the US-based International Factoring Association (IFA), making us part of a 400+ factoring industry member strong association. These prove that smarter, faster trade finance is not just a promise, but an operational reality.

Collaboration: From Inside Out

2025 was also the year we leaned heavily into collaboration – both within and outside the organisation.

Externally, we shared our vision on international platforms. We brought the Food Without Borders story of sustainable, supply chain growth to the 31st China Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair, the largest trade event in Northwest China. We also discussed the future of food security on Bloomberg Television in an episode of Advancements, with Emmy-winning actor and environmental advocate Ted Danson. And we marked our decade-long partnership with UOB, which had supported our vision from the beginning when we were a struggling abalone farming business, to our evolution today as a tech-enabled connector of food markets spanning 34 subsidiaries across 10 countries. Our partnership story was featured in the South China Morning Post.

Internally, Oceanus introduced the Ambassadors programme — a peer-nominated initiative designed to strengthen alignment, collaboration and cultural continuity across the Group. This was an unusual programme that centered the people who quietly make things work, solve problems, connect teams, and keep the culture grounded throughout the organisation. In its first year, the initiative has helped reinforce cross-team coordination and shared ownership across the organisation.

If 2025 showed us anything, it’s that Food Without Borders can’t be built in silo.

Crossing Borders: Bridging Asia and America

We literally went places in 2025 – Oceanus formally established Oceanus US, marking our expansion into North America, which also lays the groundwork for deeper engagement across LATAM. These markets are critical nodes in global food flows, and expanding into them allows us to strengthen supply chain resilience, diversify sourcing, and grow the ODIN platform. Most importantly, it will allow us to connect new markets and extend the Food Without Borders vision as we connect Asia with the Americas

Reflecting on 2025, and Planning 2026

2025 also brought external recognition of Oceanus’ growth journey. We were included in The Straits Times’ Top 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in Singapore and recognised by the Financial Times as a High-Growth Company in Asia-Pacific. We view these as encouraging milestones on a longer transformation — while staying focused on building disciplined, repeatable capabilities that support food security at scale.

But growth, on its own, cannot be the goal. As the Oceanus team lays plans for 2026, we remain aware that our planet is still in the midst of a global food crisis, with more than 800 million people around the world facing food insecurity. As such, although we have made meaningful strides last year, our work in creating a world of Food Without Borders is far from done. We celebrate our happy milestones, but also remain committed to addressing the challenges of the complex and deep-seated global food landscape.

We are thankful to our partners, shareholders and teams who supported Oceanus through 2025. Entering 2026, we remain focused on building the structures, systems and partnerships needed to advance food security in a complex and evolving environment.